Greif, Inc. (GEF)
Drum and paper packaging plants worldwide. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 31, 2024, filed December 23, 2024. Ranked 117 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
16%
End of 2028
26%
Employees, annual report
14,000
Leading staffing pattern
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now16%
- End of 202723%
- End of 202826%
- End of 203027%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 73%
- Becomes checking a model's work 21%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
The filing states 14,000 full-time employees by region, 57% in North America, making steel and plastic drums and paper packaging, with no count by business, so the split is by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 16% now, 23% at the end of 2027, 26% at the end of 2028, 27% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 27% desk work, 11% people work and 62% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 73% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 21% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
14,000 employees as of October 31, 2024 (stated). Not stated alone; 57% of employees are in North America, 26% in EMEA, 9% in Asia Pacific and 8% in Latin America.
The filing: “As of October 31, 2024, our approximately 14,000 full-time employees were located in the following geographic regions: 57% in North America; 26% in Europe, Middle East and Africa; 9% in Asia Pacific; and 8% in Latin America.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only) | 40% | Global Industrial Packaging (57% of revenue) makes steel drums, the company's founding product, in plants worldwide, which NAICS counts with metal containers (3324, in 3320A2), read by description (c) as the largest part since the filing counts employees by region, not by business. |
| Converted Paper Product Manufacturing | 28% | Paper Packaging and Services (42% of revenue) converts containerboard into corrugated sheets and boxes and makes tubes, cores and fibre drums, read at converted paper products by description (c). |
| Plastics Product Manufacturing | 17% | The plastic drums and intermediate bulk containers inside Global Industrial Packaging are plastics products, read by description (c) as the segment's smaller part. |
| Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills | 15% | The containerboard and uncoated recycled paperboard mills that feed the paper packaging plants are read at paper mills by description (c), as International Paper's mills were split from its box plants. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 14,000 full-time; 57% North America, 26% EMEA, 9% Asia Pacific, 8% Latin America; 18% female; no hourly, part-time or union figure stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK, 23,000 employees)17% now, 28% by 2028
- Ball Corporation (BALL, 16,000 employees)18% now, 28% by 2028
- BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT, 10,400 employees)18% now, 34% by 2028
- Silgan Holdings Inc. (SLGN)17% now, 27% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. One risk-factor sentence says threat actors' use of artificial intelligence may make cyber threats more frequent or effective.
- “These threats also may be further enhanced in frequency or effectiveness through threat actors' use of artificial intelligence technologies, which are becoming more widely adopted and increasingly sophisticated.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-31 | 14,000 | 2024-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-31 | 12,000 | 2023-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-31 | 12,000 | 2022-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-31 | 16,000 | 2021-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2020-10-31 | 16,000 | 2020-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2019-10-31 | 17,000 | 2019-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2018-10-31 | 13,000 | 2018-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-10-31 | 13,000 | 2017-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-31 | 12,370 | 2016-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-10-31 | 13,150 | 2015-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2014-10-31 | 13,325 | 2015-01-21 | 10-K |
| 2013-10-31 | 13,085 | 2013-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2012-10-31 | 13,560 | 2012-12-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-31 | 15,660 | 2011-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2010-10-31 | 12,250 | 2010-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2009-10-31 | 8,200 | 2009-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2008-10-31 | 9,600 | 2008-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2007-10-31 | 10,300 | 2007-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2006-10-31 | 9,025 | 2006-12-29 | 10-K |
| 2005-10-31 | 9,100 | 2006-01-12 | 10-K |
| 2004-10-31 | 9,400 | 2005-01-11 | 10-K |
| 2003-10-31 | 9,800 | 2004-01-22 | 10-K |
| 2002-10-31 | 9,800 | 2003-01-24 | 10-K |
| 2001-10-31 | 10,000 | 2002-01-25 | 10-K |
| 2000-10-31 | 4,800 | 2001-01-26 | 10-K |
| 1999-10-31 | 500 | 2000-01-28 | 10-K |
| 1998-10-31 | 500 | 1999-01-26 | 10-K |
| 1997-10-31 | 2 | 1998-01-28 | 10-K |
| 1996-10-31 | not read | 1997-01-27 | 10-K |
| 1995-10-31 | not read | 1996-01-10 | 10-K |
| 1994-10-31 | not read | 1995-01-18 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by business: the split between steel drums, paper packaging, plastic containers and the mills is by description (c).
- The patterns stand for work in Europe, Asia and Latin America under rule 7; the U.S. share is not stated alone.
- The filing read is for the year ended October 31, 2024, the latest snapshot the collector holds.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000043920-24-000056, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Greif, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 26% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Greif, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Greif, Inc. employ?
- 14,000 as of October 31, 2024, as its annual report for the period ending October 31, 2024 states.
- What kinds of work make up Greif, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only); by those patterns the work is about 27% desk work, 11% people work and 62% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Greif, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2024 name it in 0, 0, 0 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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