SEC Form 425 filed by Amcor plc

Filed by Amcor plc

Pursuant to Rule 425 of the Securities Act of 1933

Subject Company: Berry Global Group, Inc.

Commission File No.: 333-284248

Explanatory Note: The following article was published by Amcor plc on March 17, 2025.

Meet Berry: A comprehensive, complementary portfolio

By bringing together Amcor and Berry’s highly complementary businesses, we will be able to offer an even broader range of innovative and specialized solutions to our customers. With Berry’s broad and scaled spanning flexible film, containers, closures and dispensing packaging solutions, the new Amcor will create a global leader in consumer and healthcare packaging solutions.

Integrated solutions for customers

The combined portfolio will strengthen our position in high-growth, high-margin categories such as healthcare, protein, liquids, pet food, beauty and personal care and food service. Together, we will help customers grow faster and operate more efficiently with a more complete and more sustainable product offering.

Enhanced presence across categories

In addition to sharing strong positions in several key categories like healthcare and food and beverage, Berry has a stronger presence in other areas including beauty and personal care, garden and outdoors and agriculture, which will unlock new opportunities for the combined company. And, we will be able to bring these global capabilities to local customers and provide local access to global brands.

With a more comprehensive portfolio and a deeper understanding of customer needs, we will build even stronger partnerships and solidify our position as their first choice for packaging solutions.

In our next editions of the Meet Berry series, we’ll dive deeper into innovation at Berry and our shared commitment to sustainability. Stay tuned!

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operate; an inability to expand our current business effectively through either organic growth, including product innovation, investments, or acquisitions; challenging global economic conditions; impacts of operating internationally; price fluctuations or shortages in the availability of raw materials, energy, and other inputs which could adversely affect our business; production, supply, and other commercial risks, including counterparty credit risks, which may be exacerbated in times of economic volatility; pandemics, epidemics, or other disease outbreaks; an inability to attract and retain our global executive team and our skilled workforce and manage key transitions; labor disputes and an inability to renew collective bargaining agreements at acceptable terms; physical impacts of climate change; cybersecurity risks, which could disrupt our operations or risk of loss of our sensitive business information; failures or disruptions in our information technology systems which could disrupt our operations, compromise customer, employee, supplier, and other data; a significant increase in our indebtedness or a downgrade in our credit rating could reduce our operating flexibility and increase our borrowing costs and negatively affect our financial condition and results of operations; rising interest rates that increase our borrowing costs on our variable rate indebtedness and could have other negative impacts; foreign exchange rate risk; a significant write-down of goodwill and/or other intangible assets; a failure to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting; an inability of our insurance policies, including our use of a captive insurance company, to provide adequate protection against all of the risks we face; an inability to defend our intellectual property rights or intellectual property infringement claims against us; litigation, including product liability claims or litigation related to Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”), matters or regulatory developments; increasing scrutiny and changing expectations from investors, customers, suppliers, and governments with respect to our ESG practices and commitments resulting in additional costs or exposure to additional risks; changing ESG government regulations including climate-related rules; changing environmental, health, and safety laws; changes in tax laws or changes in our geographic mix of earnings; and other risks and uncertainties are supplemented by those identified from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including without limitation, those described under Part I, “Item 1A - Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 and as updated by our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. You can obtain copies of Amcor’s filings with the SEC for free at the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov). Forward-looking statements included herein are made only as of the date hereof and Amcor does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, or any other information in this communication, as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, or to correct any inaccuracies or omissions in them which become apparent, except as expressly required by law. All forward-looking statements in this communication are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.