Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (NYSE: SSCC) was a global paperboard and paper-based packaging company based in Creve Coeur, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois, with approximately 21,000 employees. In 2007, Smurfit-Stone was ranked 13 in PricewaterhouseCoopers' "Top 100" forest, paper, and packaging companies in the world (ranked by sales revenue). The company is also among the world's largest paper recyclers.
Rock-Tenn (NYSE: RKT) bought the co...
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Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (NYSE: SSCC) was a global paperboard and paper-based packaging company based in Creve Coeur, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois, with approximately 21,000 employees. In 2007, Smurfit-Stone was ranked 13 in PricewaterhouseCoopers' "Top 100" forest, paper, and packaging companies in the world (ranked by sales revenue). The company is also among the world's largest paper recyclers.
Rock-Tenn (NYSE: RKT) bought the company in a $3.5 billion deal that closed in May 2011.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation was the industry’s leading integrated manufacturer of paperboard and paper-based packaging. The company was the largest North American producer of containerboard, corrugated containers, multiwall and specialty bags, and clay-coated recycled boxboard (CRB). It was also a leading producer of solid bleached sulfate paperboard (SBS), folding cartons, flexible packaging, labels and point-of-purchase displays. SSCC was one of the world’s largest paper recyclers...
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