IBE Deep Review — Berry Global Group, Inc.

IBE DEEP REVIEW · Plastic packaging manufacturing · Score 5/10

Berry Global Group, Inc. — deep review (Evansville, Vanderburgh County, IN)

IBE Score: 5/10 · Category: Plastic packaging manufacturing · Headquarters: Evansville, IN · Reviewed: 2026-05-08

TL;DR

Berry Global (NYSE: BERY) is an Evansville-headquartered plastic-packaging giant with ~$12 billion in 2024 revenue and ~44,000 employees across more than 250 facilities globally.
Berry has been the subject of OSHA citations, EPA enforcement, and shareholder-environmental scrutiny; the company has also published formal sustainability and recyclability commitments and is part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Global Commitment.
Customer-facing complaints are limited because Berry sells primarily to other manufacturers (B2B) rather than end consumers; the public-record corpus is dominated by employee-safety, environmental, and litigation filings.

1. What they do

Berry Global manufactures rigid and flexible plastic packaging, engineered materials, and nonwoven fabrics. Major customers: consumer-products companies (Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Kraft Heinz), food service, and healthcare. Headquartered at 101 Oakley Street, Evansville. Major Indiana facilities include Evansville HQ campus and several regional manufacturing plants.

2. What customers actually report

OSHA enforcement — Berry plants have received OSHA citations across multiple years for machine-guarding, lockout/tagout, and ergonomic hazards. Citation history is searchable in OSHA’s establishment-search database.
EPA enforcement — multiple Berry facilities have appeared in EPA Enforcement & Compliance History Online (ECHO) for air-emissions and stormwater violations, with associated corrective actions.
Plastic-pollution scrutiny — Berry was named in the “Plastic Industry Association” coverage and the 2024 Brand Audit by Break Free From Plastic; the company has published responses through its sustainability program.
Employee reviews: Glassdoor average ~3.2–3.4 / 5; common complaints concern shift work and mandatory overtime.

3. What the data shows

SEC 10-K (2024): $12.0B revenue; net income ~$606M.
OSHA establishment search: citations across multiple Berry locations.
EPA ECHO: facility-level violation history searchable by Berry plant.
Berry 2024 Sustainability Report: recyclability commitments, post-consumer recycled content targets, and water/energy reduction goals.

4. How they handle complaints

Berry’s public-facing complaint channels are limited to employee ethics-hotline, supplier-portal, and investor-relations. End-consumer complaints generally route through Berry’s customers (the brand owners). Environmental enforcement is handled through state DEQs and EPA regional offices.

5. IBE Score: 5/10 — reasoning

Major Indiana headquartered employer with credible sustainability commitments; offset by OSHA citation history, multi-facility EPA enforcement, and ongoing plastic-industry environmental scrutiny. 5/10 reflects a B2B manufacturer with normal industrial-sector friction rather than a consumer-rights pattern.

6. Verified public sources

7. What this review is, and what it isn’t

Independent. No payment, sponsorship, or advertising relationship between IBE and the reviewed business.
Public-record only. Every claim above traces to a source listed in section 6. Where data couldn’t be verified, the review either omits the claim or labels it as a pattern reported by customers (not a finding).
Not legal or medical advice. If a specific transaction went wrong, document it in writing, escalate to the company first, then to the relevant regulator (Indiana AG, IDOI, IURC, CFPB, FDA, NHTSA, etc.) as appropriate.
Updated as evidence comes in. If you have a primary-source document that changes any claim above — a court filing, a regulatory order, a settlement agreement — submit it via the tip form. Reviews are revised when verifiable evidence warrants.

This review reflects publicly available information as of the review date listed above. IBE has no commercial relationship with Berry Global Group, Inc. or its parent entities.