Full coverage: Smurfit Kappa

Smurfit Kappa is staking a huge amount of shareholder value on the WestRock deal. Why? Because the expected synergies are enormous.

The proposed combined firm would be called Smurfit WestRock and domiciled in Dublin. Smurfit Kappa has set out logic behind deal for shareholders of both companies. Smurfit Kappa will delist from Euronext in Dublin, with the combined firm to have primary New York listing.

Smurfit Kappa shares popped six per cent today as it unveiled its 2022 first-half results. It's a business that finds itself fairly well-suited to times of inflation.

Tom Lyons reflects on the life of Alan Smurfit, one of an exceptional group of brothers who turned the business their father founded into Ireland's first multinational. He passed away at the weekend.