Amcor has offered to acquire parts of Alcan Packaging for $2.0 billion from Rio Tinto. The Alcan Packaging businesses it has agreed to acquire include: Alcan Packaging Global Pharmaceuticals, Alcan Packaging Food Europe, Alcan Packaging Food Asia and Alcan Packaging Global Tobacco. The combined company will be one of the world’s leading packaging companies with significant breadth of expertise, products and services, according to an Amcor statement. As of June 2009, Amcor generated $7.8 billi...