MeadWestvaco
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MeadWestvaco Corporation was an American packaging company based in Richmond, Virginia. It had approximately 23,000 employees. In February 2006, it moved its corporate headquarters to Richmond. In March 2008, the company announced a change to start using "MWV" as its brand, but the legal name of the company remained MeadWestvaco.[3]
Quick Facts Company type, Traded as ...
Company type | Public |
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NYSE: MWV | |
Predecessor | The Mead Corporation Westvaco |
Founded | January 2002 (2002-01) |
Defunct | July 1, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-07-01) |
Fate | Merged with RockTenn |
Successor | WestRock |
Headquarters | Richmond, Virginia[citation needed] |
Key people | John A. Luke, Jr., Chairman & CEO James A. Buzzard, President E. Mark Rajkowski, CFO & Senior Vice President |
Revenue | US$6,060,000,000 (2011)[1] |
US$422,000,000 (2011)[1] | |
US$246,000,000 (2011)[1] | |
Number of employees | 23,000 (2014) [2] |
Website | www |
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MeadWestvaco announced in January 2015 that it would form a combined $16 billion company with RockTenn to take on market leaders in the packaging industry in the U.S.[4] The combined company is named WestRock.