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SMURFIT-STONE

Specialty Definition: Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation

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Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation is an American paperboard and paper-based packaging company based in Chicago, Illinois. It has approximately 38,600 employees.

Financial Information
 20022001
Net Sales (US$M)7,4838,377
Net Earnings (US$M)6577

Its stock symbol on the Nasdaq is SSCC.

Smurfit-Stone was formed in 1998 as a result of the merger between Jefferson Smurfit Corp. (JSC) and Stone Container Corp. In May 2000 Smurfit-Stone acquired St. Laurent Paperboard Inc. and in September 2002, the company acquired a containerboard mill and related operations in Stevenson, Alabama from MeadWestvaco.

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