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Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale and Disposals of Property, Plant, Equipment and Businesses, Net - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2015	Apr. 30, 2014	Apr. 30, 2015	Apr. 30, 2014	Oct. 31, 2014 Assets
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Gain (loss) on disposals of property, plant and equipment, net	$ 0.7us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment	$ 1.5us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment	$ 2.3us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment	$ 4.1us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment
Timberland gains		8.7us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfTimberProperty	24.3us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfTimberProperty	17.1us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfTimberProperty
Other Miscellaneous Equipment [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Gain (loss) on disposals of property, plant and equipment, net	(0.2)us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment / us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis = us-gaap_OtherMachineryAndEquipmentMember		0.1us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment / us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis = us-gaap_OtherMachineryAndEquipmentMember
Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of assets group with assets and liabilities held for sale	4gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_RigidIndustrialPackagingAndServicesMember		4gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_RigidIndustrialPackagingAndServicesMember		3gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_RigidIndustrialPackagingAndServicesMember
Gain (loss) on disposals of property, plant and equipment, net			0.9us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_RigidIndustrialPackagingAndServicesMember
Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services [Member] | HBU and Surplus Properties [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of assets group disposed			2gef_NumberOfAssetGroupsWithAssetsSold / us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis = gef_HbuAndSurplusPropertiesMember / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_RigidIndustrialPackagingAndServicesMember
Flexible Products & Services [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of assets group with assets and liabilities held for sale	2gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_FlexibleProductsAndServicesMember		2gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_FlexibleProductsAndServicesMember		1gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_FlexibleProductsAndServicesMember
Land Management [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of assets group with assets and liabilities held for sale					1gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_LandManagementMember
Gain (loss) on disposals of property, plant and equipment, net	$ 0.9us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_LandManagementMember		$ 1.3us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_LandManagementMember
Paper Packaging [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of assets group with assets and liabilities held for sale	1gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_PaperPackagingMember		1gef_NumberOfAssetsGroupWithAssetsAndLiabilitiesHeldForSale / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = gef_PaperPackagingMember

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Amount of gain (loss) on sale or disposal of property, plant and equipment assets, including oil and gas property and timber property.

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Amount of gain (loss) on sale or disposal of property used for growing and harvesting trees.

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