WestRock

WestRock Company
Company typePublic
IndustryCorrugated packaging
Predecessor
Founded2015; 9 years ago (2015)
DefunctJuly 5, 2024; 4 months ago (2024-07-05)
FateMerged with Smurfit Kappa
SuccessorSmurfit Westrock
Headquarters
Sandy Springs, Georgia
(Atlanta mailing address)
,
United States
Key people
David B. Sewell (CEO)
RevenueIncrease US$14.86 billion (2017)[1]
Number of employees
c. 56,100 (September 2023)
Websitewestrock.com

WestRock was an American corrugated packaging company and in 2024 merged with Smurfit Kappa to become Smurfit Westrock. It was formed in July 2015 after the merger of MeadWestvaco and RockTenn.[2] WestRock was the 2nd largest American packaging company. It was one of the world's largest paper and packaging companies with US$21.3 billion in annual revenue and more than 50,000 team members in more than 300 locations in 30 countries around the world.[3][4][5] The company was headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, consolidating offices from Norcross, Georgia and Richmond, Virginia.[6]

  1. ^ "WestRock | 2020 Fortune 500". Fortune.
  2. ^ "WestRock Company Formed with Completion of Merger of MeadWestvaco and RockTenn". GlobalNewsWire. July 1, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  3. ^ "WestRock to purchase packaging aspect of Cenveo". Canadian Packaging. 2015-12-14. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  4. ^ "WestRock". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  5. ^ "2023 Proxy Statement" (PDF). WestRock.com. February 8, 2023. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  6. ^ "WestRock to Relocate Headquarters in Greater Atlanta, Ga". Retrieved 2021-05-16.