Ardagh Group, a Luxembourg-based producer of glass and metal products founded in 1932 as the Irish Glass Bottle Company, purchased Rockware Glass in 1999.
Ardagh Group is a Luxembourg-based producer of glass and metal products that has "grown in the past two decades into one of the world's largest metal and glass packaging companies". Founded in 1932 as the Irish Glass Bottle Company in Dublin, the company expanded through a series of acquisitions after Paul Coulson acquired an initial stake in the company in 1998. It purchased Rockware Glass in 1999. 
