This is a tale of two similar businesses both involved in packaging. At a point in recent history Nampak was an African packaging titan and Bowler Metcalf a small Cape Town-based family-run specialist plastics company.

How the tides have turned as the fiscally conservative Capetonian came to outshine the aggressive, deal-driven Vaalie and have a larger market value than its erstwhile competitor...

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