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World leader in packaging to buy Bulgarian company

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Irish leader in packaging Ѕmurfіt Карра wants to acquire 100 percent of the Bulgarian company Vitavel JSC in Lukovit, the Commission on Protection of Competition has announced.

Ѕmurfіt Карра has 350 plants in 33 countries of Europe and America and employs 45,000. In the region the company is active in Greece and Romania, and last year acquired capacities in Serbia. 



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