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Virginia health officials on Friday announced confirmation of two more swine-flu-related deaths, one of which was a Virginia Beach man.

RockTenn Company filed Annual Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. Rock-Tenn Company provides a wide range of marketing and packaging solutions to consumer products companies at low costs, with net sales and operating locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Chile.

The Memphis school board is expected to sign an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will provide $90 million for a plan to change how teachers are hired, evaluated and retained.

Georgia-Pacific Corp. has curtailed operations at a north Mississippi plant and laid off 80 people.

Mississippi Gasification wants to build a $2 billion synthetic natural gas plant on the former International Paper Co.

MAKING THE MOVE: Dan Reese, president and founder of Prestige Ameritech, says his company will more than quadruple its space when it moves from Richland Hills to North Richland Hills by late January.

VICE PRESIDENT & CFO of Potlatch Corp. Eric J Cremers sells 15,000 shares of PCH on 11/13/2009 at an average price of $29.27 a share.

By A PPI Special report BRUSSELS, Nov. 12, 2009 - Wausau Paper is the result of the 1977 merger between Wausau Paper Mills Company and Mosinee Paper Corporation.

Virginia's U.S. senators, Jim Webb and Mark Warner, have added a please and thank you to a grant application recently submitted by the city of Suffolk.

A company has been fined 6,000 after a man had to have his arm amputated when it became stuck in machinery at a paper mill, a safety regulator said.

FLOW CORPORATION announced today that total revenue for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009 increased 14% to $36.7 million compared to total revenue of $32.2 million for the third quarter of 2008.

Lauren Johnson, 12, sneezes as many as 16 times a minute and her mom says no doctor can explain why.

Graphic Packaging International, Inc., a subsidiary of Graphic Packaging Holding Company , today announced that it plans to close two manufacturing facilities and transition business to other U.S. operating locations.

FRANKLIN, Va. - Communities near the International Paper plant in Franklin are trying to determine what ripple effects the plant's scheduled 2010 shutdown will have.

International Paper's chief executive says there will be no reconsideration of the decision to shut the plant in Franklin down.

Jonathan Landon isn't against cloud computing necessarily, but he's careful about how he throws around the term.

Kimberly-based Appleton Coated LLC and two other paper companies won an early victory Friday in their anti-dumping case.

MasterCard Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit was bolstered by continued cost-cutting measures and an increase in the number of transactions it processed.

Kadant Inc. announced today that its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $20 million of its equity securities effective November 4, 2009 through November 4, 2010.

While many Canadian companies fret about how to deal with staff shortages and dropping revenue from the H1N1 flu, others are profiting from growing demand for everything from hand sanitizer to medical advice.