Owens-Illinois, Inc. (O-I) is the largest manufacturer of glass containers in the world, with leading positions in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Its innovative packaging products are found in households and businesses and its customers manufacture and market many of the best-known consumer-products around the globe.O-I produces glass containers for food and beverage products in categories such as food, tea, juice, malt beverages, including beer and ready-to-drink low-alcohol refreshers, liquor, wine, and pharmaceuticals.
O-I is dedicated to innovations in packaging that improve the performance of its products through global resources and design expertise and consistently delivers consumer-preferred products that enable superior taste, purity, visual appeal and value benefits for its customers' products.
O-I's headquarters are in Perrysburg, Ohio, and as part of its global business strategy, O-I established a European headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, to refocus its expanded European operations. By placing greater emphasis on global strategy, O-I has improved efficiencies company wide, and leveraged its diverse global resources and capabilities, irrespective of location, to win locally where it competes.