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DS Smith has sold Demes, its logistics and pallet service, to international transport packaging group Cartonplast Holding. 07-Jan-2010 DS Smith is to close a paper machine at its Kemsley Mill in Kent next month, with the loss of 40 jobs. 10-Mar-2009 DS Smith has acquired Multigraphics, the Bradford-based printing firm with 137 staff, for undisclosed terms. 06-Mar-2008 DS Smith is to invest £104m in the production of corrugated case material at its Kemsley paper mill in Kent, and will acquire the adjacent New Thames Paper Mill from M-Real. 04-Feb-2008 DS Smith is planning to shed a further 13 of the 220 jobs at its cardboard packaging factory at Fordham, near Newmarket, by the end of the year. 01-Sep-2006 DS Smith is to shed 50 of the 168 jobs at its Wansborough paper mill in Watchet, Somerset. 19-Apr-2006 DS Smith is to close its Sudbrook paper mill in Monmouthshire in May, with the loss of up to 135 jobs. 21-Feb-2006 DS Smith has sold BSK, its Kent-based plastic coating and laminating business with 117 staff, to BSK Materials. 04-Jan-2006 DS Smith is to close its packaging plant at the Rainton Bridge Industrial Estate on Wearside following a recent fire, with the loss of up to 20 jobs. 28-Oct-2005 DS Smith has acquired Timmermans, the office products wholesaler with 130 staff in Belgium and the Netherlands, in order to expand its Spicers business. 04-Oct-2005 DS Smith has sold John Dickinson Stationery, the office products manufacturer with 450 staff at sites in Cambridgeshire, Tyne & Wear and Herefordshire, to Groupe Hamelin. 13-Jul-2005 DS Smith is to acquire BPB Recycling, the recovered paper collection business with five depots and 140 staff, from BPB. 02-Jun-2004 DS Smith has agreed terms for the £170m acquisition of LINPAC Containers Group, the Louth-based manufacturer of corrugated packaging with 1,320 staff. 04-Mar-2004 Macfarlane is to sell its corrugated packaging operations in Dundee, Govan and North Shields to DS Smith for £0.9m, which will involve the transfer of 108 staff. 27-Oct-2003 DS Smith is to acquire Zewathener, the German bag-in-box packaging group with 80 staff, by buying a 51% stake from SCA Packaging and the remaining 49% from the current management. 17-Jul-2002 DS Smith Packaging has set up a new sheet plant group to manage 14 corrugated packaging sites across the country, following last year's acquisition of a number of Danisco Pack plants. 24-May-2002 DS Smith Packaging is to close its Carlisle factory and transfer 25 staff to a site in Lockerbie. 06-May-2002 DS Smith is planning to shed between 20 and 100 jobs at its John Dickinson envelopes factory in Sawston, Cambridgeshire. 18-Mar-2002 DS Smith Packaging is to close its decorative packaging factory in Stone with the loss of up to 32 jobs, and the work will be transferred to other sites. 12-Nov-2001 David S Smith, the paper and packaging group, is to change its name to DS Smith. 29-Jun-2001
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