Richard O'Donovan

New England Asset Management, Inc. (NEAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1984 and formerly known as General Re New England Asset Management, Inc. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Re Corp., which is wholly owned by Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK). NEAM provides investment management services primarily to insurance companies (affiliated and unaffiliated with NEAM). The firm also provides investment management services for governmental entities, a pension/profit sharing plan account, pooled investment vehicles and high-net-worth individuals. NEAM manages assets of an insurance company client that includes a charitable organization account.

RBS Holdings NV engages in commercial banking operations, investment banking, and other related financial activities through its subsidiaries. It performs retail banking services mainly in its home country, Brazil (through Banco ABN AMRO Real), and the US, where it owns Chicago-based LaSalle Bank and Michigan's Standard Federal Bank. RBS Holdings was founded on May 30, 1990 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

IPL Plastics Plc engages in the manufacture of specialty packaging products used primarily in the food, consumer, agricultural, logistics and environmental end-markets. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Packaging Solutions; Large Format Packaging and Environmental Solutions; and Returnable Packaging Solutions. The Consumer Packaging Solutions segment includes specialty thin-wall injection moulded containers, lids, overcaps and custom packaging solutions for branded and private label food and consumer products customers in North America and Europe. The Large Format Packaging and Environmental Solutions segment provides a range of large pails, containers and crates for the food and consumer, environmental, retail, agricultural and industrial end-markets, with a focus on large volume, non-cosmetic products that utilize recycled polymers. The Returnable Packaging Solutions segment manufactures plastic bulk containers used in the agricultural sector. The company was founded in 2005 is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.