Graphic Packaging Holding Company (GPK)
Paperboard packaging maker, 23,000. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 2, 2026. Ranked 71 of the 85 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
14%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
23,000
Leading staffing pattern
Converted Paper Product Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now14%
- End of 202721%
- End of 202824%
- End of 203024%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 75%
- Becomes checking a model's work 20%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
A paperboard packaging maker whose filing states one total across 25 countries and describes mills and converting plants without counting them, so converting leads 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: 14% now, 21% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 9% people work and 66% 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 75% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 20% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
23,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; it employs in over 25 countries, and the Americas are 73% of revenue.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company had more than 23,000 employees based in more than 100 locations in over 25 different countries around the world.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Converted Paper Product Manufacturing | 70% | By description (c): the packaging plants that convert paperboard into folding cartons and other packaging in over 100 locations are most of the workforce, read at converted paper products at 70%, since the filing counts no segment. |
| Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills | 30% | By description (c): the paperboard mills that make the board are read at pulp, paper and paperboard mills at 30%; the filing counts no mill workforce. |
What the filing says about the workforce: More than 23,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 in more than 100 locations in over 25 countries; 1,056 working under expired contracts in negotiation and 1,901 under agreements expiring within a year.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Converted Paper Product Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Smurfit Westrock plc (SW, 97,000 employees)14% now, 24% by 2028
- International Paper Company (IP, 62,602 employees)14% now, 24% by 2028
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB, 36,000 employees)15% now, 23% by 2028
- Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY, 35,000 employees)18% now, 26% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 3 times, as a tool of attackers and as a transformation it must execute to keep pace.
- “The Company has been, and likely will continue to be, subject to computer hacking, acts of vandalism or theft, malware, ransomware, computer viruses or other malicious codes, phishing, malicious use of artificial intelligence for sophisticated attacks, employee error or malfeasance or other cyber-attack.”
- “Additionally, the Company may fail to identify, prioritize or effectively execute digital and/or artificial intelligence ("AI") transformation initiatives across its operations or may fail to capitalize on opportunities arising from increasing demand for smart products.”
- “Inadequate implementation of digital and data programs, or failure to identify or prioritize emerging digital and/or AI initiatives, could place the Company at a competitive disadvantage with respect to speed to market, smart product offerings, manufacturing capacity and service levels.”
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
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20253median 10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 23,000 | 2026-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 23,000 | 2025-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 23,500 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 24,000 | 2023-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 25,000 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 18,775 | 2021-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 18,000 | 2020-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 18,000 | 2019-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 13,000 | 2018-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 13,000 | 2017-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 12,000 | 2016-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 11,500 | 2015-02-05 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 12,900 | 2014-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 13,900 | 2013-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 12,300 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 12,400 | 2011-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 13,100 | 2010-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 14,400 | 2009-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | not read | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Pattern shares rest on descriptions (c); the filing counts no segment.
- The headcount is stated as more than 23,000.
- No U.S. share is stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001408075-26-000009, 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 Graphic Packaging Holding Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 14% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Graphic Packaging Holding Company'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 Graphic Packaging Holding Company employ?
- 23,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Graphic Packaging Holding Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Converted Paper Product Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 24% desk work, 9% people work and 66% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Graphic Packaging Holding Company's annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 3 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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