MeadWestvaco Company Description
MeadWestvaco (MWV) has decided that it would rather box than shuffle paper: It sold its Papers business -- which made labels, book/catalog/magazine papers, and business forms -- to investment firm Cerberus Capital Management in 2005 for $2.3 billion. The company's packaging operations (folding cartons, corrugated boxes, printed plastics) account for nearly three-fourths of sales. The company also makes school supplies (Mead, Five Star, Trapper Keeper), consumer office products (AT-A-GLANCE, Cambridge), and specialty chemicals (activated carbons, asphalt emulsifiers, tall oil).
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