Providing Value to Our Clients through a Unique and Dedicated Approach.
Receive a Level of Service and Performance Dedicated Solely to Meeting the Needs of the Middle Market Plastics & Packaging Industry.
PMCF’s Plastics and Packaging investment bankers are dedicated solely to serving the needs of middle-market transactions within the plastics and packaging industry. Our exclusive focus on plastics mergers and acquisitions provides value to our clients through a unique and differentiated approach to solving our clients’ needs and maximizing value. Plastics and packaging sale advisory, acquisition advisory, capital raising, and transaction planning services are conducted exclusively by our industry dedicated investment banking team. The combined experience of our Team brings significant advantages over choosing a non-specialized advisor.
We take a long term and holistic approach to managing and executing transactions often taking the time to advise and prepare clients years in advance of a transaction. With our focus on companies in the plastics and packaging industries we differentiate by providing more senior attention and a higher level of involvement than most of our competitors. At PMCF, our extensive coverage of the plastics and packaging industries has provided us with specialized, in-depth knowledge of the sector dynamics and key strategic and financial buyers and sellers in these markets.
Our middle-market plastics and packaging transactions have included sale, divestiture, acquisition, capital raising, and strategic advisory engagements with public, private, and financial backed organizations including private equity. In the majority of these transactions we have represented a product or end market leader and interacted directly with multiple key strategic buyers. The result of this experience is our extensive relationships with executive decision makers of the most active acquirers of, investors in, and lenders to plastics and packaging companies.
Our Plastics & Packaging team covers a full range of plastics materials, processes, and end markets:
Processing Experience
- Thick and Thin Gauge Thermoforming
- Sheet Extrusion
- Injection Molding
- Blow Molding
- Resin/Compounding/Additives
- Blown Film Extrusion
- Cast Film Extrusion
- Structural Foam
- Pipe, Profile, and Tube Extrusion
- Calendering
- Compression Molding
- Corrugated
- Tool Production
End Market Expertise
- Rigid Packaging
- Flexible Packaging
- Medical and Pharmaceutical
- Distribution and Materials Handling
- Food and Beverage
- Graphics
- Industrial
- Lawn and Garden / Horticultural
- Consumer Products
- Automotive and Transportation
- Building Products and Supplies
As industry experts, the Plastics and Packaging Group conducts in-depth research and analysis of plastic and packaging processes and M&A activity. This data is compiled into regular reports relied upon by plastic and packaging businesses to stay current with strategic trends and news. Please contact us today to inquire how this information can maximize value in your organization’s operations and strategic planning regarding mergers and acquisitions in the plastics industry.
Our Specialists in this Sector
John Hart
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Mr. Hart is a Managing Director of P&M Corporate Finance (PMCF) and leads the firm’s Plastics & Packaging team. He has over 18 years of professional experience advising clients with company sales, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recap transactions and financings. Mr. Hart specializes in assisting companies that operate in the plastics and packaging industries and has led the successful completion of more than 20 transactions in these industries over the last 6 years. He has also provided strategic advisory to numerous companies to assist shareholders with planning for an ultimate sale. Mr. Hart’s clients have included entrepreneurs, family owned businesses, large international companies and private equity groups.
Mr. Hart has authored over 30 plastics and packaging industry M&A reports and is a frequent speaker at plastics and packaging industry trade conferences. He has also contributed to numerous articles and industry reports relating to plastics and packaging M&A. Mr. Hart’s network includes many of the strategic players and private equity groups in the plastics and packaging industries.
Prior to joining P&M Corporate Finance, Mr. Hart served as President of a privately held distribution company where he provided strategic direction, operational leadership, and assistance with the ultimate sale of the company. Mr. Hart also worked in the Corporate Value Consulting Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Hart has a bachelor’s degree in accounting with a finance emphasis from Michigan State University, and is a licensed securities representative, holding his Series 7, 24, and 63 registrations.
Stephen Fisher
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Mr. Fisher is a Vice President with PMCF and a member of the firm’s Plastics & Packaging team. He has a broad range of experience in sell-side and buy-side advisory assignments, having advised public and private companies on merger and acquisition mandates, valuation matters, private placements and financing transactions across a variety of industries.
Prior to joining PMCF, Mr. Fisher worked as a Management Consultant for Plante Moran, a middle market public accounting and business advisory firm, and KPMG, an international audit, tax and advisory firm. Mr. Fisher earned a B.S. in Business Information Systems from Lehigh University and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a licensed securities representative holding his Series 79, 63, and 82 registrations.
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