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61-675: 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. The combined company is named WestRock . MeadWestvaco was a producer of packaging , specialty papers, consumer and office products and specialty chemicals . The company had 153 operating and office locations in 30 countries, and served customers in over 100 countries. The company’s paperboard, package and paper brands included Carrier Kote, Custom Kote, Printkote, Tango, Digipak , Amaray, Dosepak and Vision. MeadWestvaco held leading positions in

122-550: A $ 7,500 investment by his boss, he moved to Baltimore , Maryland . There he managed the J.E. Smith Box & Printing Co. during the day, while running the Southern Box Company, a company he founded in 1936, at night. Using Smith's presses, die-cutters, and other box making equipment during the evening, Morris began servicing two anchor customers who knew him from his Philadelphia days. Only six months after Morris had left Philadelphia, Schoettle came to Baltimore to offer him

183-520: A deal valued at about $ 9.2 billion to create the world’s second-largest packaging company. Ampad Ed Byrne, VP & CFO American Pad & Paper LLC , or Ampad , is a manufacturer of office products, including writing pads , specialty papers, filing products and envelopes. Some products are marketed under the Ampad brand name, others are produced for brands including Staples and Wal-Mart . The company makes over 2500 products, including pads in

244-439: A decade, cost about $ 75 million. By the middle of the 1990s, RockTenn had 59 facilities in 19 states and Canada. Net sales reached $ 705.8 million during 1994, constituting an 11.8 percent compounded annual growth rate for the past decade. Net income came to a record $ 37.5 million. Late in 1995 COO Jay Shuster was named president of RockTenn, with Currey retaining the posts of chairman and CEO. In January 1997, RockTenn consummated

305-506: A full-text information retrieval system for the U.S. Air Force , and by 1967 had adapted this product to the task of indexing and searching legal precedent as part of an experiment with the Ohio State Bar. After a study led by Arthur D. Little indicated that the product had a profitable future, Mead Data Central launched it as the LEXIS legal research system in 1973. In December 1994, Mead sold

366-588: A manufacturer of folding and set-up boxes, for about $ 1 million. In 1969, Tennessee Paper acquired wastepaper factories in Knoxville and Atlanta, and in 1972 it built another wastepaper plant in Chattanooga. The merger of Rock City Packaging and Tennessee Paper Mills in 1973 gave Morris, Brown, and others who held stock in the former companies a controlling interest in the new corporation, RockTenn Company. Most Tennessee Paper common stockholders received preferred stock in

427-467: A manufacturer of high-density recycled paperboard mainly used in book covers and binders that operated mills in Aurora, Illinois ; and Jersey City, New Jersey . Also in 1997, RockTenn and Sonoco Products Company created a fiber partition joint venture called RTS Packaging, LLC, with RockTenn holding a 65 percent stake and Sonoco the remaining 35 percent. The venture combined RockTenn's eight partition plants with

488-576: A monthly salary of $ 350 Morris was expected to manage several hundred employees, some of them more than twice his age. He also traveled along the eastern seaboard, explaining to meat packers his discovery that they could avoid shrinkage of their hot dogs by putting them in Schoettle's boxes instead of stringing them up like bananas. By 1935, Morris was making a salary on which he could comfortably support his wife and four children, but he wanted to go into business for himself. Armed with life savings of $ 5,000 and

549-495: A net loss for the year of $ 15.9 million. Seven more plants were closed over the next three years, resulting in the loss of 450 more jobs and an additional $ 19 million in charges. Meantime, in February 2000 the company formed a joint venture with Lafarge Corporation called Seven Hills Paperboard, LLC, which was charged with producing gypsum paperboard liner for the U.S. drywall manufacturing plants of Lafarge. RockTenn owned 49 percent of

610-477: A new CEO, hiring James A. Rubright, who had previously been the head of the pipeline group and energy services business of Sonat, Inc. Currey handed over the chairmanship to Rubright as well in January 2000. Later in 2000, Shuster, having been passed over for the CEO position, left the company. Rubright accelerated the pace of restructuring at RockTenn through the closure of a number of under-performing plants. He also shifted

671-422: A promotion and a $ 25,000 salary. When Morris refused, Schoettle offered to sell Morris his own majority share of Southern Box for $ 25,000. A bank loan to Morris made the deal possible. He moved to new quarters for $ 200 a month, left day-to-day management to one of his employees, and devoted himself to finding new accounts. In its first year the company made a few thousand dollars on sales of $ 60,000. By 1942, Morris

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732-703: A variety of sizes, paper grades, colors, and bindings. Its headquarters are located in Richardson, Texas , United States . with four factories in North America, including facilities in the United States and a plant in Matamoros, Tamaulipas , Mexico . Ampad was founded in 1888 by Thomas W. Holley, a paper mill employee, in Holyoke, Massachusetts . At the time, Holyoke was a major papermaking center. Holley began purchasing

793-519: The LexisNexis system to Reed Elsevier for $ 1.5 billion. The U.S. state of Illinois subsequently audited Mead's income tax returns and charged Mead an additional $ 4 million in income tax and penalties for the sale of LexisNexis; Mead paid the tax, but sued for a refund in Illinois state court. On April 15, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Mead that the Illinois courts had incorrectly applied

854-565: The Columbian Brand Envelope, to Cenveo Corporation's Quality Park Envelope Products Group. In 2012, ACCO Brands acquired Mead. In January 2015, MeadWestvaco and Rock-Tenn Co agreed to a merger. In 2002, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified MeadWestvaco as the 57th-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States , with roughly 35,000 pounds of toxic chemicals released annually into

915-668: The Court's precedents on whether Illinois could constitutionally apply its income tax to Mead, an out-of-state, Ohio-based corporation. The Court reversed and remanded so that the lower courts could apply the correct test and determine whether Mead and Lexis were a "unitary" business. In the 1960s and '70s, Mead acquired several companies, including the Woodward Corp, an iron company, in 1968, Stanley Furniture of Virginia in 1969 and Murray Rubber in 1977. In 1978, Mead and 13 other companies were sued for violating anti-trust laws. The suit alleged that

976-562: The Executive Vice President and COO of Clore Automotive. On June 8, 2010 Ampad was acquired by Esselte . In July 2014, it was sold to TOPS Products. On January 25, 2021, the company was the focus of attention for the dismissal of workers who demanded a fair salary increase and intimidation of administrative personnel, thus violating the clients' policies of respect for workers, good remuneration, excessive working hours The company claims its founder, Thomas W. Holley, invented

1037-620: The Jackson Box Company. In 1957, Mead acquired Cleveland Paper, a merchant paper distributor. In 1966, Mead acquired Westab, a school supply company whose product line included the Big Chief tablet , Spiral Notebook brand and Hytone Notebooks. In 1968, Mead entered the information technology sector by acquiring Data Corporation for $ 6 million and renaming it Mead Data Central. Mead was originally interested in an inkjet printing system developed by Data. However, Data had also been working on

1098-737: The MeadWestvaco Foundation as a vehicle to appropriately give back to the communities in which its employees live and work. The Foundation works closely with local MWV business unit managers to determine the goals, priorities, and strategies best for each location. The Foundation’s 2007 contributions totaled roughly $ 3.7million. Funds were allocated to the following categories: United Way, education, environment, health & human services, culture & art, and civic organizations. MWV employees, families, and friends also contributed over 46,000 volunteer hours to schools, charitable organizations, and public institutions. RockTenn RockTenn

1159-704: The Morris companies. A new 30,000-square-foot warehouse was added to the Norcross facility in 1960. Each of the Morris companies operated as a separate and virtually autonomous profit center. Rock City opened not only small set-up and folding carton plants but also facilities in Livingston and Milan, Tennessee, to meet the packaging needs of shirtmakers. A set-up box division was established in 1955. Rock City Waste Paper Co. collected, sorted, and baled wastepaper for sale to paper mills. Other Morris companies and plants sprouted throughout

1220-494: The Papers business unit—including both Mead and Westvaco paper mills—was sold to the investment firm Cerberus Capital Management for about $ 2.3 billion. The new company was called NewPage Corporation . In 2008, MeadWestvaco sold its Charleston, SC kraft paper mill to Kapstone Paper and Packaging. Also in 2008, MeadWestvaco began using the "MWV" brand. In February 2011, MeadWestvaco sold its Envelope Products Business, including

1281-514: The South. Sales grew from $ 8 million in 1959 to $ 12.9 million in 1967, when all the companies were consolidated into Rock City Packaging, Inc. Morris became chairman of the board and a son-in-law, Worley Brown, became president. Sales volume reached $ 23 million in 1972. Meanwhile, in order to meet the competition, Tennessee Paper began buying customers to assure continued markets for its paperboard products. In 1964, it acquired Knoxville Paper Box Co., Inc.,

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1342-534: The US. At the time, the company had more than 3,700,000 square feet (340,000 m ) of production and warehouse space in California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. The company continued to enjoy 53 percent compound annual growth in net sales, which increased from $ 8.8 million in 1992 to $ 200.5 million in 1996, when

1403-645: The United States, Canada , Mexico , Chile , Argentina and China . RockTenn Company was formed in 1973, the product of a merger between Tennessee Paper Mills Inc. and Rock City Packaging, Inc. Its origins date back to 1898, when the Rock City Box Company of Nashville , Tennessee , was founded. Among its customers in the mid-1940s were a local boot factory, a local candy manufacturer, a hosiery company, and several shirt manufacturers. The owners, Joe McHenry and A.E. Saxon, who also operated several other business ventures, wanted to sell out and retire. Rock City

1464-572: The West Coast through this acquisition, gaining a manufacturer of folding cartons for the fast-food, in-store deli, and gift box markets. In 2010–2011, RockTenn made a successful bid for Smurfit-Stone Container , the world's-largest producer and recycler of paperboard. The acquisition deal closed in May 2011, making the combined company North America's second largest producer of containerboard . Rock-Tenn Co. agreed to acquire U.S. rival MeadWestvaco Corp. in

1525-639: The acquisition would allow RockTenn to capture about one-fourth of the partition market, raise annual revenue to more than $ 200 million, and increase production of recycled paperboard to 235,000 tons. In 1989, net sales had reached $ 515.9 million, and net income was $ 31.1 million. The following year the company dedicated to Chairman of the Board Finley a 33,000-square-foot office building behind its headquarters in Norcross. In 1990, RockTenn acquired Allforms Packaging Corp. of Long Island, New York , and Box Innards Inc. of Orange, California . The next year it purchased

1586-503: The air. Major pollutants indicated by the study include sulfuric acid , chlorine dioxide , chlorine , and methyl iodide . MeadWestvaco took steps to improve its environmental impact by upholding both mandated and voluntary performance standards. It was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index , a system that tracks the financial performance of leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide. MWV met

1647-428: The board while remaining chief executive officer. Finley moved to senior chairman of the board. Morris remained chairman of the executive committee until his death in January 1985. Currey later became RockTenn's chairman (in 1993) and CEO (in 1989) as well as its president. In 1982 RockTenn's sales volume reached $ 133 million and its production of recycled paperboard peaked at 180,000 tons, most of which it used itself in

1708-563: The carbon reduction targets of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the world's first and North America's only legally binding rules-based greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading system. It held leadership positions in and actively supports Sustainable Packaging Coalition, Cerflor, CCX, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Abundant Forests Alliance, Duke University Climate Change Policy Partnership and Sustainable Forestry Initiative . In 2002, MeadWestvaco established

1769-722: The combined voting power of Class A and B common stock after the offering. In December 1993, RockTenn paid $ 35 million for Les Industries Ling, a Canadian company that used recycled paperboard to make folding cartons. The newly acquired plant, which was to serve as the principal supplier of recycled clay-coated paperboard for RockTenn's Vermont mill, became the company's second largest folding carton facility. A year later, RockTenn agreed to acquire Olympic Packaging, an Illinois-based manufacturer of folding cartons, and Alliance Display and Packaging Co. of Winston-Salem, North Carolina , maker of corrugated displays. The purchases, which boosted RockTenn's acquisitions of manufacturing operations to 17 in

1830-563: The companies had collaborated to increase the cost of cardboard containers between March 1973 and December 1975. In 1982, Mead settled an antitrust lawsuit for $ 45 million. In 1986, Mead acquired Ampad makers of legal pads which it sold in 1992 to Bain Capital . Mead acquired the Hilroy Companies in 1994 from a consortium of banks that had purchased Olympia and York from the receiver, O&Y's subsidiary through Abitibi-Price . In 2005,

1891-631: The company announced it would be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange . After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Ampad was acquired in 2003 by an affiliate of Crescent Capital Investments, later renamed Arcapita . Ampad's current president and CEO , Donald Meltzer, joined the company in August 2005, having formerly served as vice president and general manager of the Roofing Systems Group at Johns-Manville , and before that as

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1952-666: The company became publicly traded. The company made a number of acquisitions, including writing products company SCM in July 1994, brand names from the American Trading and Production Corporation in August 1995, WR Acquisition and the Williamhouse-Regency Division of Delaware, Inc. in October, 1995, Niagara Envelope Company, Inc. in 1996, and Shade/Allied, Inc. in February 1997. On January 8, 1999, unable to sustain profitability,

2013-472: The company was "more soundly financed than many in its field," noting that long-term debt of $ 51.6 million was only one year's cash flow. Although calling the offering somewhat pricey at $ 16.50 a share, it noted that "RockTenn's emphasis on recycling makes it well-suited to customers wishing to appear environmentally responsible, and could also prove profitable if use of woodlands is restricted." Officers and directors of RockTenn still controlled about 71 percent of

2074-508: The company's emphasis away from the slow-growing recycled paperboard side and toward the areas with higher growth potential: the folding carton and plastics packaging businesses, as well as the burgeoning merchandising display operation, which by the early 2000s was the U.S. leader in point-of-purchase displays. During 2000, RockTenn closed one laminated-paperboard products plant and three folding carton plants, resulting in 550 employee terminations and charges of $ 61.1 million – and

2135-601: The end of World War II, the company had expanded outside of Massachusetts and established international footholds. Known as the Ampad Holding Corporation, the company was purchased in 1986 by the Mead Corporation . In 1992, the newly formed holding company American Pad & Paper and Bain Capital purchased the subsidiary from Mead. Upon its formation, American Pad & Paper consolidated its 13 manufacturing and distribution facilities into six in 21 locations in

2196-974: The former Specialty Paperboard Inc. mill in Sheldon Springs, Vermont , and Ellis Paperboard Products Inc. of Scarborough, Maine , a manufacturer of folding cartons and solid-fiber partitions. The Ellis purchase included its Canadian subsidiary, Dominion Paperboard Products Ltd. With these additions RockTenn controlled 60 manufacturing and distribution operations, including eight mills with a total annual production capacity of 607,000 tons of recycled paperboard products. RockTenn now ranked sixth among U.S. producers of recycled paperboard, with market share of 5.7 percent. Net sales rose from $ 564.1 million in 1991, ending September 30, 1991, to $ 655.5 million in 1992, but dipped to $ 650.7 million in 1993. Net income rose from $ 25 million in 1991 to $ 33.2 million in 1992 before dipping to $ 25.5 million in 1993. The 1993 figure included unusual after-tax expenses of $ 5.8 million. Production in 1994

2257-402: The founders originally planned to make board from wheat straw, they turned instead to wastepaper as the primary raw material; thus Tennessee Paper became the first recycled paperboard mill in the South. To reduce its electric bill, the company installed its own steam generating plant in 1926. Paperboard production averaged 20 tons a day in the early years, reaching an average of 56.77 tons in 1930,

2318-540: The industry average of 71 percent. In 1941, it operated a record 305 days. Sales volume exceeded $ 1.7 million in 1945. A second papermaking machine doubled the mill's capacity in 1949. Beginning in 1954, however, Tennessee Paper began losing customers to companies manufacturing lower-cost folding cartons and corrugated and plastic containers. The trend in the business was toward vertical integration. Many paperboard companies acquired – or merged with – their customers. Typically profits were made at

2379-455: The largest acquisition in its history, purchasing Waldorf Corporation for $ 239 million in cash and the assumption of $ 170 million in debt. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota , Waldorf operated six folding carton plants and three paperboard mills in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina and Wisconsin; the firm had revenues of $ 377 million during 1996. The acquisition propelled RockTenn into

2440-505: The manufacture of folding cartons and containers and corrugated boxes. Its many customers included Coca-Cola , DuPont and Kentucky Fried Chicken , which it serviced from facilities in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas with a workforce of 1,700 people. In a 1983 Atlanta Constitution interview, Currey attributed the decade-old company's growth to "luck, chance, and circumstance ... but

2501-405: The markets it served. MeadWestvaco managed over 3 million acres (12,000 km) of forestlands that met environmental standards and was certified to Sustainable Forestry Initiative standards. MeadWestvaco was formed in January 2002 as the result of a merger between The Mead Corporation of Dayton, Ohio , and Westvaco . The Mead Corporation was founded as Ellis, Chaflin & Co in 1846. In 1856,

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2562-516: The mill level, by selling boxes virtually at cost. The effect on boxmakers was so severe that by 1957 Tennessee Paper was extending credit and loans to its customers in order to keep their accounts. One of these customers was Rock City. Its consumption of Tennessee Paper's board grew from about 1,000 tons in 1944 to about 37,000 tons in 1972, when it took 44 percent of Tennessee Paper's total boxboard production. Between 1965 and 1968 Tennessee Paper bought 29.5 percent of Rock City's common stock, preparing

2623-624: The name was changed to Weston & Mead. In 1861, it became Mead & Weston. In 1881, the company's name changed again, this time to The Mead Paper Company. In 1890, the Ingham Mill in Chillicothe was purchased by the Mead Paper Company, making it a two mill operation. In June 1906, the mill in Dayton closed and milling operations shifted to the Ingham Mill. In 1888, Westvaco's predecessor company

2684-460: The new company that earned them triple the dividends they had been receiving. Some shareholders, however, opted for cash instead. The president of Tennessee Paper, W. Max Finley, and his immediate family, received common stock in the new company. Finley was elected chairman of the board and Brown became president and chief executive officer. Reorganization did nothing to slow down expansion. The Crescent Box & Printing Co. of Tullahoma, Tennessee ,

2745-462: The number two position among producers of folding cartons in North America and also made the company the leading manufacturer of recycled paperboard in the United States. RockTenn followed up with two smaller deals in mid-1997, adding Wright City, Missouri -based Rite Paper Products, Inc., a producer of laminated recycled paperboard products primarily for the furniture industry, and the Davey Company,

2806-657: The purchase of Cartem Wilco Group Inc., a privately held Canadian maker of folding cartons and specialty packaging, for $ 65.3 million. The deal accelerated RockTenn's expansion into the growing pharmaceutical and health and beauty packaging market. Cartem Wilco, which operated plants in Montreal and Quebec City, also produced folding cartons for food packaging and consumer products. In August 2003 RockTenn paid about $ 16 million for Pacific Coast Packaging Corp., located in Kerman, California . RockTenn secured its first folding carton operation on

2867-546: The rejects, or "sortings", from local paper mills, cutting the paper, inscribing rules on it, and binding it into pads which he could sell at a discount. Within a year, Holley's business filled a whole floor of a commercial building on Holyoke's Main Street. By 1894, the business grew to occupy an entire building, at the corner of Winter and Appleton Streets in Holyoke, and in 1909, the size of its facilities there were nearly doubled. By

2928-507: The same year that the company produced a record 15,557 tons of product. This figure would not be matched for some time because of the Great Depression; production dropped to 11,995 tons in 1934. The company remained profitable, however, although only modestly so. As the nation's economy slowly recovered, Tennessee Paper's volume of business increased to meet renewed demand. During 1939 the factory operated at 85 percent capacity, compared with

2989-498: The seven that had been owned by Sonoco. Although the purchase of Waldorf pushed RockTenn's revenues past the $ 1 billion mark for the first time in 1997, difficulties in the integration process resulted in a depressed profit figure of $ 16.1 million. Some of the profit shortfall was attributable to costs stemming from plant closings, and the company closed additional plants in the next two fiscal years as profit levels recovered somewhat. In October 1999, RockTenn went outside its ranks for

3050-529: The success of any company depends on its people." He added that the company had gone to great lengths "to make sure the workers know that we care" – a group of senior executives took a month each year to travel to each of the company's facilities in order to talk to employees and present service awards. RockTenn made its biggest acquisition yet in 1983, when it paid $ 40 million to buy 11 Clevepak Corporation plants, seven of which were making partitions to protect glass and plastic containers. Currey said

3111-729: The venture. RockTenn also beefed up its merchandising display business, its fastest-growing segment, through two acquisitions costing a total of $ 25.4 million. In November 2001, Advertising Display Company, a producer of both temporary and permanent point-of-purchase displays, was acquired. In March of the following year RockTenn bought Athena Industries, Inc., a Burr Ridge, Illinois , manufacturer of permanent point-of-purchase displays, with an emphasis on wire displays. On December 20, 2001, RockTenn Company announced revised historical segment operating income results, because it had changed its presentation of certain segment operating income data for fiscal 2002. Acquisition activity continued in 2003 with

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3172-478: The way for the eventual merger of the two companies. By then Rock City owed Tennessee Paper more than $ 4 million in loans. Morris's burgeoning industrial empire grew both by acquisitions and by establishing new companies. Among the former was the Parks Box & Printing Co., located on a leased 11-acre tract in Norcross, Georgia. This land was purchased in 1957 and gradually became the focal point for management of all

3233-549: Was 700,000 tons of recycled paperboard, of which 182,000 tons was clay-coated recycled paperboard. The first public offering of RockTenn stock, amounting to about 14 percent of the shares outstanding, was made in March 1994. A handful of shareholders offered about 3.6 million shares of Class A common stock, while the company itself offered about 900,000 shares. An analysis in Barron's described RockTenn's balance sheet as "attractive" and said

3294-452: Was A.M. Sheperd of Vincennes, Indiana , a boxboard manufacturer. Tennessee Paper Mills was incorporated in 1917 with Stagmaier as president, Tomlinson as vice-president, and Sheperd as general manager. With $ 300,000 raised from stock offerings, the three men established a paperboard factory in Chattanooga, where operation began in July 1918. By the end of the year the new company had made a net profit of $ 23,367 on sales of $ 165,799. Although

3355-463: Was acquired in 1973 and Clevepak Corporation's Conway, Arkansas, folding carton plant in 1974. By 1976 the company had 29 divisions. Sales in 1974, the first fiscal year after the merger, reached $ 47.7 million. In 1978 Bradley Currey, Jr., a veteran officer of the Trust Company of Georgia who had helped effect the merger, became president and chief operating officer of RockTenn. Brown became chairman of

3416-514: Was an American paper and packaging manufacturer based in Norcross , Georgia . In 2015, it merged with MeadWestvaco to form the WestRock company. It was one of North America's leading producers of corrugated and consumer packaging and recycling solutions, with annualized net sales of approximately $ 10 billion. The company employed approximately 26,000 people and operated more than 245 facilities in

3477-460: Was attractive to Arthur Newth Morris, owner of the Southern Box Company, not least for its bank account of $ 60,000. Morris purchased the company in 1944 for $ 200,000, making a cash down payment of $ 50,000. The 25-year-old Morris had been a printer and part-time Presbyterian minister when he went to work in 1926 for Edwin J. Schoettle, a Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , industrialist who owned a group of box and printing companies that bore his name. For

3538-466: Was doing well enough to open a corrugated box plant and to buy another Baltimore enterprise, the King Folding Box Co., where he installed a corrugated sheet cutter. Morris sold corrugated partitions to major glass companies, which needed them to separate the bottles and glasses they shipped. The following year the name of his enterprise was changed to Newth Morris Box Company. In 1944, another branch

3599-754: Was formed to unite the several Mead companies under one umbrella. During the 1930s and '40s, the company acquired several mills and companies, including the Dill and Collins mill in Philadelphia, the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company in Brunswick, Georgia and the Escanaba Paper Company. It was first listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1935. In 1955, Mead acquired the Chillicothe Paper Company and

3660-830: Was founded as Piedmont Pulp & Paper Co. In March 1920, the Mead Fibre Company was created to take over operations of the Kingsport Pulp Corporation in Kingsport, Tennessee. In 1921, the Mead Sales Company was formed to sell the Mead Paper Company's projects. In 1928, the Mead Paperboard Corporation was formed to operate mills in Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee. In 1930, the Mead Corporation

3721-685: Was opened in Jacksonville, Florida, where the company produced cardboard anti-radar devices for World War II American troops and popcorn boxes for movie theater owners. Following Morris's purchase of Rock City Box Co. that same year, he changed the name of Newth Morris Box Co. to Rock City Box Sales Company. Morris's purchase of Rock City Box Co. put him in contact with one of its suppliers and his future merger partner: Tennessee Paper Mills. Andrew M. Tomlinson and John Stagmaier, two of Tennessee Paper's three founders, were Athens, Tennessee , businessmen who already owned box factories. The company's third founder

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