Smurfit-Stone Container

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Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation

Predecessors	Jefferson Smurfit Corporation Stone Container Corporation
Founded	November 1998; 25 years ago (1998-11)
Headquarters	Creve Coeur, Missouri Chicago, Illinois , United States
Parent	Rock-Tenn (from 2011)

Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation was a global paperboard and paper-based packaging company based in Creve Coeur, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois, with approximately 21,000 employees.^[1] In 2007, Smurfit-Stone was ranked 13 in PricewaterhouseCoopers' "Top 100" forest, paper, and packaging companies in the world as ranked by sales revenue.^[2] The company was also among the world's largest paper recyclers.

Rock-Tenn bought the company in a $3.5 billion deal that closed in May 2011.^[3] Rock-Tenn is now known as Smurfit WestRock.