M&A Deal Summary

Rock-Tenn Acquires Southern Container

On March 5, 2008, Rock-Tenn acquired packaging company Southern Container for 851M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Rock-Tenn’s 11th transaction in the Packaging sector.
  • This is Rock-Tenn’s 2nd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Rock-Tenn’s 15th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Rock-Tenn’s 2nd transaction in New York.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2008-03-05
Target Southern Container
Sector Packaging
Buyer(s) Rock-Tenn
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 851M USD

Target

Southern Container

Hauppauge, New York, United States
Southern Container Corp. is a containerboard manufacturing and corrugated packaging business.

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Buyer

Rock-Tenn

Norcross, Georgia, United States
Category Company
Founded 1936
Sector Packaging
Employees25,800
Revenue 9.5B (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Rock-Tenn Company provides packaging solutions and manufacturers of containerboard and paperboard. based in Norcross, Georgia, United States.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 17 of 23
Sector (Packaging) 11 of 14
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 15 of 20
State (New York) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 15 of 21
Year (2008) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-01-24 GSD Packaging

Fresno, California, United States

GSD Packaging LLC is a manufacture of Fold-Pak food pails and Bio-Pak and SMARTServ food containers in its three plants located in California, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Fold-Pak food pails are the preeminent takeout package used by Chinese restaurants in the United States.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-08-09 Innerpac

Cicero, Illinois, United States

Innerpac, one of the leaders in chipboard and corrugated packaging and partitions, is pleased to announce that Bar A Enterprises of Santa Fe Springs and Stockton, California is merging operations with Innerpac, LLC of Cicero, Illinois, El Paso, Texas and Keene, New Hampshire effective September 2nd 2008.

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