Focused, global and integrated

In the early 1930s, Jefferson Smurfit Snr saw the untapped potential of a small Dublin box factory, and with the purchase of that firm, the story of the Jefferson Smurfit Group began. Over the succeeding decades, the Smurfit Group grew rapidly, obtaining a listing on the Dublin Stock Exchange in 1964, the London Exchange in 1970 and the American Stock Exchange in 1983. Dr. Michael Smurfit, son of Jefferson Smurfit, Snr and Chairman and Chief Executive since 1977, has led the Group through a period…