Checker Food Products Co, 10655 Midwest Industrial Blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63132, US

Founded in 1953 as Sunbeam Plastics, Rexam Closures & Containers, a subsidary of The Rexam Group, designs, engineers, manufactures and markets a wide variety of packaging solutions. The company s products include beverage packaging in metal, glass and plastic, and plastic packaging solutions for the beauty, health care, pharmaceutical and food industries worldwide. The company s produces in excess of 50 billion cans and approximately 7 billion glass containers each year for the beverage industry. Its beauty industry products include lipstick cases, compacts, dispensing systems for perfumes and lotions and closures for fragrances. In the pharmaceutical and health care areas, the company produces plastic containers and closures, as well as glass bottles and vials. Redam also manufactures intricate delivery systems for asthma inhalers and eye drop dispensers and nasal sprays. The company s food packaging products include plastic tubs and trays and glass jars. Rexam Closures & Containers has operations in Princton, and Evansville, Ind., and Union, Mo.