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Two Billion-Dollar Mergers in Packaging Will Create Huge Global Entities

MeadWestvaco-RockTenn, Ball-Rexam combinations will form new industry leaders in their respective markets.

There are plenty of mega-mergers in the world of business, and the printing industry has seen its share of these combinations. However, there aren’t that many billion-dollar companies in the printing field, and to see two billion-dollar mergers on the packaging side within a one-month period is unusual, to say the least.     These two deals Rock-Tenn Company and MeadWestvaco Corporation (MWV) combining their companies and Ball acquiring Rexam, are creating global packaging companies that, once...

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