date:Jul 30, 2012
th growth rates inhigh single digits.
North America, having ironed out the manufacturing and supply chain inefficiencies experienced in 2011, also delivered a strong performance for O-I.
We have made good progress regaining manufacturing and supply-chain efficiencies. This has been most evident in our North American region, which has the largest year-over-year improvement in the second quarter of any of our segments,said Stroucken.
This performance led the company to net earnings of $134 mill