Monday May 7 | Business Journal
Georgia now boasts 15 Fortune 500 companies
Georgia now has 15 companies on the Fortune 500, thanks to the addition of RockTenn, which in 2011 acquired Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.
Foods firm RockTenn to buy Smurfit-Stone for $3.5-bn
RockTenn Co, North America's leading manufacturer of packaging for food and consumer products, yesterday said that it will buy its bankruptcy emerged rival Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, for $3.5 billion in cash and stock.
UPDATE 1-RockTenn 2nd-qtr beats on higher consumer packaging sales
Packaging and paper company RockTenn Co posted better-than-expected quarterly results helped by strong sales at its consumer packaging business.
Despite lawsuit, scrapping, lack of jobs at Smurfit site, some hopeful
The mood was festive last May when Green Investment Group founders Ray Stillwell and Mark Spizzo stood outside the gates of the old Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.