Rock-Tenn
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Rock-Tenn Company (NYSE: RKT) is a paper and packaging manufacturer based in Norcross, Georgia, United States. RockTenn (NYSE: RKT) is one of North America's leading producers of corrugated and consumer packaging and recycling solutions, with annualized net sales of approximately $10 billion. Based in Norcross, GA, they employ approximately 26,000 people and operate more than 245 facilities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and China.
In 2010-2011, Rock-Tenn made a successful bid for Smurfit-Stone Container, the world's largest producer and recycler of paperboard.[1] The acquisition deal closed in May 2011, making the combined company North America's second largest producer of containerboard.[2]
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- ^ Brown, Lisa, Smurfit had another suitor before Rock-Tenn deal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 26, 2011.
- ^ Rock-Tenn completes Smurfit-Stone acquisition, St. Louis Business Journal, May 27, 2011.
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