Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> April 16, 2001
WALTER E. ROSE is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gibraltar
Packaging Group, Inc. He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Florida in 1965 and completed the coursework for
an MBA at New York University in 1971. He joined Rayonier, Inc., a
specialty pulp and paper company, after his engineering degree, where he
gained experience in operations, strategic planning and general
management. He then joined Thomas Tilling, Inc. in 1979, a UK-based
holding company that grew to $1.5 billion in sales in the US through
acquisition, where he was a Group Executive. In 1982, Mr. Rose and John
Strautnieks, an associate at Thomas Tilling, acquired one of the Thomas
Tilling companies in a management buyout, which they sold three years
later. They then purchased Great Plains Packaging, which changed its
name to Gibraltar Packaging Group, Inc. and went public in 1991. They
also purchased a group of industrial companies now consolidated into
Rostra Technologies, Inc., which they privately own. Profile
Packaging?
Mr. Rose: Gibraltar today is principally a folding carton company, which
also produces some litho-laminated
