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GREIF, INC.
425 Winter Road
Delaware, Ohio 43015
(740) 549-6000 (General Number)
(740) 549-6101 (Facsimile Number)
October 20, 2009
VIA EDGAR
United States
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Greif, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-4
Filed September 18, 2009
File No. 333-162011 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter supplements the October 2, 2009 letter from Greif, Inc. (the Company) regarding
the Companys Registration Statement on Form S-4, File No. 333-162011, as amended (the
Registration Statement), filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities
Act), and is in response to the October 8, 2009 letter (the October 8 Correspondence) from the
Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) to Michael J. Gasser, the Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, relating to the Registration Statement.
The Company is registering an exchange offer that is the subject of the Registration Statement
in reliance on the position of the Staff of the Commission enunciated in Exxon Capital Holdings
Corporation, SEC No-Action Letter (April 13, 1988), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, SEC
No-Action Letter (June 5, 1991), and Shearman & Sterling, SEC No-Action Letter (July 2, 1993).
The Company represents to the Staff that:
(1) Neither the Company nor its affiliates have entered into any arrangement or understanding
with any person, including any broker-dealer, to distribute the securities to be received in the
exchange offer and, to the best of the Companys information and belief, each person participating
in the exchange offer is acquiring the securities in its ordinary course of business and has no
arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the securities
to be received in the exchange offer.
(2) The Company will make each person participating in the exchange offer aware (through the
exchange offer prospectus or otherwise) that if the exchange offer is being registered for the
purpose of secondary resales, any securityholder using the exchange offer to participate in a
distribution of the securities to be acquired in the registered exchange offer (i) cannot rely on
the Staffs position enunciated in Exxon Capital Holding Corporation and interpretive letters of
similar effect and (ii) must comply with registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the
Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale transaction.
(3) The Company acknowledges that such a secondary resale transaction should be covered by an
effective registration statement containing the selling securityholder information required by Item
507 of Regulation S-K.
(4) The Company will make each person participating in the exchange offer aware that any
broker-dealer who holds original notes (i.e., notes issued in the offering that was exempt from
registration under the Securities Act) for its own account as a result of market-making activities
or other trading activities may participate in the exchange offer so long as the broker-dealer has
not entered into any arrangement or understanding with either the Company or any of its affiliates
to distribute the exchange notes (i.e., notes that are the subject of the Registration Statement
and are being offered in the exchange offer).
(5) The Company will make each person participating in the exchange offer aware that any
broker-dealer who holds original notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making
activities or other trading activities and who receives exchange notes in exchange for those
original notes in the exchange offer may be a statutory underwriter and must therefore deliver a
prospectus which meets the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with the resale of
those exchange notes.
(6) The Company will include in the letter of transmittal or similar documentation to be
executed by a person participating in the exchange offer the following representations by the
person who submits the letter of transmittal or similar document:
(i) If the exchange offer participant is not a broker-dealer, an acknowledgement that
it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, a distribution of the exchange
notes; and
(ii) If the exchange offer participant is a broker-dealer holding original notes
acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading
activities, an acknowledgement that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements
of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the exchange notes received in
respect of the original notes pursuant to the exchange offer. Such acknowledgement may
also include a statement to the effect that by so acknowledging and by delivering a
prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an underwriter within
the meaning of the Securities Act.
If you would like to discuss anything that is stated above or anything else relating to the
Exchange Offer, please contact Joseph P. Boeckman of Baker & Hostetler LLP at (614) 462-4737.
Very truly yours,
GREIF, INC.
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By
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/s/ Michael J. Gasser |
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Michael J. Gasser
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
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Copies to: |
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Baker & Hostetler LLP
Ernst & Young LLP |
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