Smurfit-Stone Container Sells Consumer Packaging

TPG manages one of the world’s largest private investment companies. The firm has a long history of successfully acquiring divisions of larger corporations, including Beringer (Nestle), Burger King (Diageo), ON Semiconductor (Motorola), Paradyne and GlobeSpan (Lucent), and Texas Genco (CenterPoint Energy), among others. Today, portfolio companies controlled by TPG have combined revenues of more than $65 billion, operate in over 120 countries, employ nearly 300,000 employees and, were they to be aggregated, would create the 16th largest business of the Fortune 500.