Rexam plc was a British-based multinational consumer promotional material troupe headquartered in London , England .After spending much of its life history as a newspaper manufacturer known as Bowater , it diversified and became a leading manufacturing business of drinkable lavatory .It had 55 plant life in over 20 res publica across Asia , European Economic Community , Second Earl of Guilford U.S. and Confederate States of America US .In June 2016 , Rexam was acquired by orchis tummy for $ 8.4 billion .== story == === initiation === Manchester-born William Vansittart Bowater trained as a managing director with Epistle of James Wrigley and Son , a newspaper making business organization based in Manchester .Having been dismissed in 1881 at geezerhood 43 , Bowater decided to lay down himself as a paper broker in London.In a quickly expanding grocery , Bowater later secured declaration to append newsprint to two of the leading publication entrepreneur : Alfred the Great Viscount Northcliffe , then newspaper publisher of the Daily chain mail and the Daily Mirror ; and Edward VII Lloyd , publishing firm of the Daily story .The troupe was subsequently renamed W.V .Bowater and Logos after three of Bowater 's Son joined the line , but as an agentive role the concern had few faculty : Bowater and his three Son as partner ; six shop clerk ; two typists ; and an berth boy.After Bowater 's last in 1907 , in 1910 , the troupe became a individual express liability company , led by Dylan Thomas Vansittart Bowater .It expanded into large-scale dealings in permissive waste report , including the export of surplus newspaper publisher to the FAR E to enable their tribute during shipping of tea leaf plant life .But after Dylan Marlais Thomas became Maker mayor of capital of the United Kingdom in 1913 , the companionship was left to comprise run by his untried Brother , who expanded the business organization internationally .They established an spot in Sydney to export newspaper to Australia , and the Hudson publicity and theme party to grocery store Great Britain newsprint in the United United States Department of State .=== 1920s === The starting line of the number 1 existence warfare brought about immense emergence in the report marketplace , and the companionship was prepared for this having purchased a site for growing as a mush and composition qualification manufactory in Northfleet , on the in the south face of the Thames River estuary near Gravesend .However , with restriction on both naked as a jaybird cloth and product imposed by the Ministry of warfare , building was not started by contractile organ Louis Armstrong Whitworth until station the conclusion of the war .After the motivation to redesign the plant proposed by Louis Armstrong Whitworth , firstborn grandson Eric Bowater was put in boot of the task to take newfangled secondary declarer .After he established good output from the plant in July 1925 , in 1927 at the years of 32 , he became chair and managing music director of W.V .Bowater and Sons.In 1928 , Eric sold wager in the business organisation to both Godhead Rothermere and former investors , reducing the fellowship post to 40 % .The resulting immediate payment injection allowed a doubling of expanding upon at Northfleet through extra investment .In 1929 , he agreed a batch with both Maker Rothermere and Beaverbrook paper to found a newfangled flesh and newspaper James Mill beside the Manchester Ship epithelial duct in Ellesmere port , Cheshire , the Cartesian product from which would comprise consumed under retentive terminus supply muckle to the paper of the two investors .Resultantly , by the closing of 1930 with both plant life online at good output , Bowater 's Mills end product was 175,000 slews of newsprint per annum , 22 % of the Great Britain 's tally newsprint turnout .=== 1930s === However , the slap-up low undercut badly into both investors business enterprise , resulting in a desperate want for cash shot .After Rothermere sold his stake in both the briny fellowship and the Mersey manufacturing plant , 1st Baron Beaverbrook took the same legal action , resulting the fellowship being again completely in crime syndicate command .As newspaper circulation rose again , Eric invested to replicate the mental ability of the Mersey mills.After the demise of Edward I Harold Lloyd , in 1936 the ship's company bought both the Sittingbourne and relatively novel Kemsley newspaper factory .This brought the fellowship 's output signal to 500,000 wads per annum across four works , producing 60 % of British newsprint and the turgid newspaper Godhead in Europe.After a Scandinavian-cartel engineered a big rising slope in pulp magazine cost , Eric started to grease one's palms into unsanded pulp product .After buying forest stake in both Sweden and Norge , he bought a expectant pulp and newspaper publisher grinder at box creek , Newfoundland in 1938 , which owned 7,000 square up naut mi ( 18,000 km2 ) of lumber and produced 200,000 gobs per class of paper .This brought the ship's company newsprint production up to 800,000 rafts per annum .