O-I Melbourne’s Dash and Splash Results in Cash for Sick Children
Does the thought of choppy seas, extreme heat and more than 6,500 competitors on your heels sound like a fun way to spend your weekend morning? It did for the Melbourne O-I Corporate Triathlon team on Sunday, March 3. Fifty-four employees braved 38 degree Celsius heat (that’s 100 degrees Fahrenheit for our international friends) and […]
How Does Glass Answer Society’s Need for a Sustainable Future?
Across the world, we have never been as aware as we are now of the impact of human activity on the environment. Whether we’re watching plastics strangling and poisoning our fish, dioxins released by burning waste in Africa, climate change aggravating floods in Bangladesh or wildfires in California, the environment is seldom off our television screens and news media. […]
France Recycling Fund Fights Cancer
O-I is raising money for cancer research and patient support through glass recycling in France. For every tonne of glass collected annually, O-I, donates funds to La Ligue Contre le Cancer (The League Against Cancer). In 2018, our efforts raised €88,660 for La Ligue Contre la Cancer, five percent more than the previous year, which […]
Making What Matters: O-I Publishes Updated Sustainability Goals
December 13, 2018 When 84% of people expect brands to help make the world a better place (according to a McCann Worldgroup study), we know that we have a role to play as a company, but also as a key partner to consumers’ favorite brands. At O-I, we know getting real results requires action. That’s why […]
Kids Share in O-I’s Commitment to Community
The Toledo Zoo is home to more than 10,000 individual animals representing over 720 species from around the globe. When you visit, it’s like traveling around the world in a single trip. Therefore, when the kids from Sodt Elementary in Monroe, Michigan had the opportunity to visit through “Companies for Kids,” it was a journey […]
Friends of Glass and Surfrider Raise a Glass for the Ocean
According to a survey carried out earlier this year with the Friends of Glass community, 78% of Europeans have noticed a change in their behavior since the release of BBC’s Blue Planet II. To raise awareness of the endless lives of glass, and help consumers make healthy, sustainable choices, the European glass industry association has […]
O-I Designs Lightest Beer Bottle in the UK for Adnams
When UK brewery Adnams wanted to create a beer bottle that would be better for the earth in 2015, they came to O-I Glass because they knew O-I shared its environmental values. Adnams is a brand built on earth-friendly practices and led the UK beer industry in adopting lighter glass packaging, but they wanted to do more. “Constant environmental improvement is part […]
Helping Earthquake Victims in Mexico
O-I joined community efforts to support victims of an earthquake that ravaged parts of Mexico in 2017. In each of our business units in the country, food and hygiene items were collected and distributed to victims through the Red Cross of Mexico. Additionally, O-I employees from Guadalajara, Querétaro and Monterrey donated money to Habitat for […]
Owens-Illinois, Inc.: O-I European Group B.V. Launches Private Offering of $310 Million of Senior Notes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OI European Group B.V. Launches Private Offering of $310 Million of Senior Notes PERRYSBURG, Ohio / SCHIEDAM, the Netherlands (December 5, 2017) – Owens-Illinois Group, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that OI European Group B.V. (“OI Europe”), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, […]
Owens-Illinois, Inc.: OI European Group B.V. Launches Private Offering of €200 Million of Senior Notes
Exhibit 99.1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OI European Group B.V. Launches Private Offering of €200 Million of Senior Notes PERRYSBURG, Ohio / SCHIEDAM, the Netherlands (March 20, 2017) – Owens-Illinois Group, Inc. (the “Company”), announced that OI European Group B.V. (“OI Europe”), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, intends to offer, subject to market and other […]
