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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| NYSE: MWV | |
| Predecessor | The Mead Corporation Westvaco |
| Founded | January 2002 |
| Defunct | July 1, 2015 |
| 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 |
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]
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.
- ^ a b c "Financial Statements for MeadWestvaco Corp. - Google Finance". Archived from the original on March 12, 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- ^ "MeadWestvaco Corporation Financials | Financial information from Hoover's | 804-444-1000". Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- ^ "MWV : MeadWestvaco Becomes MWV in Global Rebranding Initiative". MWV: Press Releases. MWV. 24 March 2008. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ "Rock-Tenn, MeadWestvaco to merge, create packaging giant" (Press release). Reuters. 26 January 2015. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2017.