Owens-Illinois, Inc. announced the pending retirement of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Edward C. White. White, who turns 65 in June, plans to retire at the end of the second quarter. He will be succeeded by Stephen P. Bramlage, Jr., currently president of O-I's Asia Pacific operations. White has served as chief financial officer and a member of the company's global leadership team since 2005. Bramlage began his career at the company in 2006 as treasurer at the company's global headquarters.Before joining the company, Bramlage spent five years at PPG Industries, Inc., in Pittsburgh, the last three as assistant treasurer for the global treasury. Bramlage also worked with Eli Lilly & Company in corporate finance and with Ernst & Young as an auditor. White will transition his role to Bramlage in the second quarter of 2012.
O-I Glass, Inc. is a manufacturer of glass container products. The Companyâs segments include the Americas and Europe. The Company produces glass containers for alcoholic beverages, including beer, flavored malt beverages, spirits, and wine. The Company also produces glass packaging for a variety of food items, soft drinks, teas, juices, and pharmaceuticals. The Company manufactures glass containers in a range of sizes, shapes, and colors. Its customers consist of food and beverage manufacturers, including Anheuser-Busch InBev, Brown-Forman, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, Constellation, Diageo, Heineken, Molson Coors, Nestle, PepsiCo and Pernod Ricard. It has glass container manufacturing plants in the Americas region located in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary and the United States. It has a distribution facility in the United States used to import glass containers from its business in Mexico. It has approximately 69 plants in 19 countries.
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