DS Smith (SMDS)

DS Smith Plc is a holding company engaged in the supply of recycled packaging for consumer goods and the wholesaling of office products. It operates in three segments: UK Packaging, which include includes DS Smith Recycling, which collects waste paper and other materials for recycling; DS Smith Paper, which processes the waste paper to produce recycled paper, and DS Smith Packaging, which converts corrugated case material into corrugated board and boxes; Continental European Corrugated Packaging, which is engaged in heavy-duty industrial and litho-laminated packaging, and Plastic Packaging, which is a supplier of liquid packaging and dispensing system. It is a supplier of returnable transit packaging, which includes reusable containers, boxes and pallet systems. On October 1, 2010, it sold DS Smith Copikas A.S. On September 30, 2011, the Company sold DS Smith paper business of its Higher Kings Mill paper mill. In December 2011, it sold Spicers Group’s entities to Unipapel SA.

Directors: Miles Roberts (CEO) 48, Steve Dryden (Fin. Dir.) 44, Matthew Jowett (Counsel) 44,

No. of Employees: 10,150 No. of Shareholders: n/a

Last Annual	April 30th, 2012
Last Interim	October 31st, 2012
Shares in Issue	927,072,810
Free Float	918.3m (99.1%)

Sector	Basic Materials
Industry	Containers & Packaging
Index	FTSE Higher Yield , FTSE 350 Act , FTSE 250 Mid , FT350 Genl Indus ,
Exchange	London Stock Exchange (Full)
Eligible for	an ISA? a SIPP?