RPC´s Ron Marsh honoured for outstanding contribution
RPC Group’s retired Chief Executive Ron Marsh has received the UK Packaging Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry after guiding the company to become one of the world’s leading rigid plastic packaging manufacturers.
L-R: Josh Brooks (Packaging News), Steve Haig (Flint Group, award sponsor), Ron Marsh, Adam Hills (awards host).
Ron led the management buyout in May 1991 that created RPC Containers, which has since grown from the original five factories in the UK to over 50 operations throughout Europe and the USA.
During his tenure as Chief Executive, the company continually demonstrated excellent growth in turnover and profits, to be acknowledged as one of the best and most consistent performers in the packaging industry as whole. This culminated in 2012 in the company being named Packaging Company of the Year at the UK Packaging Awards.
This year’s awards were presented on Wednesday 13 November at the London Hilton, Park Lane.
The Outstanding Contribution to the Industry award recognises individual achievement in the packaging industry and rewards people who have had an impact not only within their own companies but on the wider industry. It is picked by the Packaging News editorial team, who take into consideration achievements across a career or outstanding achievements in the year under review.
The judges said: “Admired across the industry for his commercial and strategic acumen as well as for being constantly approachable and developing great loyalty among those who work for him, Marsh has picked up a raft of honours and awards in recent years for his long service to the industry. One prominent packaging person describes Marsh as ‘one of the great names in UK packaging and, indeed, in UK manufacturing’.”
His reputation within the packaging industry as a whole was reflected in the fact that he was regularly placed in the top three of the most influential people in packaging by the Packaging News survey and last year was awarded the BPF Gold Medal for distinguished service to the plastics industry.