Owens-Illinois, Inc.: Carol Williams joins O-I Board of Directors
January 29 2014 - 4:25PM
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
For more information,
contact:
Lisa Babington
Senior Manager, Corporate Communications
Perrysburg, Ohio,
US
567
336-1445
lisa.babington@o-i.com
Carol
Williams joins O-I Board of Directors
Perrysburg, Ohio (Jan. 29, 2014) - Owens-Illinois,
Inc. (NYSE: OI) announced today that Carol Williams has been
appointed to the O-I Board of Directors. Ms. Williams is a special
advisor to the CEO at Dow Chemical Company, a diversified chemical
company with revenues in 2012 of $56.8 billion. Prior to her
current role, which began on January 1, 2014, she served as Dow's
executive vice president of manufacturing and engineering, supply
chain and environmental, health & safety operations.
During Williams' 34 year history at Dow, she moved
through a number of management positions in R&D before becoming
operations leader and then vice president for the North American
chlor-alkali assets business. She was named senior vice president
of basic chemicals in 2009 and president of chemicals & energy
in 2010 before assuming her executive vice president role.
Williams, who holds a bachelor's degree in
chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pa., also serves on Dow Chemical's Executive Leadership Committee
and Strategy Board.
"We are very much looking forward to the knowledge
Ms. Williams will bring to our Board," said O-I Chairman and CEO Al
Stroucken. "She has a great deal of management expertise --
from manufacturing to purchasing to supply chain, as well as
extensive experience in R&D. The breadth of her experience will
be invaluable for O-I. "
Williams is also a board member for Atlanta based,
Zep Inc., a leading producer of maintenance and cleaning chemical
solutions. Her appointment to O-I's Board of Directors is effective
February 20, 2014.
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About O-I
Owens-Illinois, Inc. (NYSE: OI) is the world's
largest glass container manufacturer and preferred partner for many
of the world's leading food and beverage brands. The Company had
revenues of $7.0 billion in 2013 and employs approximately 22,500
people at 77 plants in 21 countries. With global headquarters in
Perrysburg, Ohio, USA, O-I delivers safe, sustainable, pure,
iconic, brand-building glass packaging to a growing global
marketplace. For more information, visit www.o-i.com.
O-I's Glass Is Life(TM) movement promotes the
widespread benefits of glass packaging in key markets around the
globe. Join us in the #betteringlass conversation at
www.glassislife.com.
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