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MeadWestvaco: History, Companies & Art

MeadWestvaco Corporation was an American packaging company based in Richmond, Virginia. It had approximately 23,000 employees. In February 2006, it moved its corporate headquarters to Richmond. In March 2008, the company announced a change to start using "MWV" as its brand, but the legal name of the company remained MeadWestvaco.

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MeadWestvaco topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around MeadWestvaco.

Related topics
40
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
43
Extracted relationships
63
Related term clusters
10
Bridge connections
43

What this topic covers Research coverage

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History · 23 topics
Environmental record · 9 topics
Overview · 8 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Founded
January 2002 (2002-01)
Headquarters
Richmond, Virginia[citation needed]
Defunct
July 1, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-07-01)
Fate
Merged with RockTenn
Key people
John A. Luke, Jr., Chairman & CEO James A. Buzzard, President E. Mark Rajkowski, CFO & Senior Vice President
Net income
US$246,000,000 (2011)

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Overview

History

Environmental record

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How MeadWestvaco connects Entity context

The extracted context around MeadWestvaco shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, MeadWestvaco → Abundant Forests Alliance, CCX, Cerflor, Chicago Climate Exchange, Dow Jones Sustainability World, Duke University Climate Change, Index, Major, Massachusetts Amherst, MWV, North America's, Policy Partnership, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, United States, University, World Business Council Another extracted example is MeadWestvaco → Also, Cerberus Capital Management, Charleston, Kapstone Paper, Mead, MWV, NewPage Corporation, Packaging, Papers, SC, Westvaco. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

MeadWestvaco

Top relations

related to Environmental record · 18
MeadWestvaco → Abundant Forests Alliance, CCX, Cerflor, Chicago Climate Exchange, Dow Jones Sustainability World, Duke University Climate Change, Index, Major, Massachusetts Amherst, MWV, North America's, Policy Partnership, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, United States, University, World Business Council
related to 2000 to present · 11
MeadWestvaco → Also, Cerberus Capital Management, Charleston, Kapstone Paper, Mead, MWV, NewPage Corporation, Packaging, Papers, SC, Westvaco
related to overview · 9
MeadWestvaco → Amaray, Carrier Kote, Custom Kote, Digipak, Dosepak, Printkote, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Tango, Vision
related to MeadWestvaco Foundation · 6
MeadWestvaco → Funds, MeadWestvaco Foundation, MWV, The Foundation, The Foundation’s, United Way
related to history · 5
MeadWestvaco → Dayton, January, Ohio, The Mead Corporation, Westvaco
Defunct · 1
MeadWestvaco → July 1, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-07-01)
Fate · 1
MeadWestvaco → Merged with RockTenn
Founded · 1
MeadWestvaco → January 2002 (2002-01)
Headquarters · 1
MeadWestvaco → Richmond, Virginia[citation needed]
Key people · 1
MeadWestvaco → John A. Luke, Jr., Chairman & CEO James A. Buzzard, President E. Mark Rajkowski, CFO & Senior Vice President

Important terminology

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Important terminology

mead company corporation paper mwv packaging virginia acquired richmond companies 000 system employees january westvaco president sold business 2008 brand

MeadWestvaco relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 63 structured relationships around MeadWestvaco. Examples in this analysis include MeadWestvaco → Defunct → July 1, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-07-01) and MeadWestvaco → Fate → Merged with RockTenn. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
MeadWestvacoDefunctJuly 1, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-07-01)1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoFateMerged with RockTenn1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoFoundedJanuary 2002 (2002-01)1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoHeadquartersRichmond, Virginia[citation needed]1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoKey peopleJohn A. Luke, Jr., Chairman & CEO James A. Buzzard, President E. Mark Rajkowski, CFO & Senior Vice President1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoNet incomeUS$246,000,000 (2011)1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoNumber of employees23,000 (2014)1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoOperating incomeUS$422,000,000 (2011)1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoPredecessorThe Mead Corporation Westvaco1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoRevenueUS$6,060,000,000 (2011)1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoSuccessorWestRock1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoTraded asNYSE: MWV1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoTypePublic1.00infobox
MeadWestvacoWebsitewww.mwv.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around MeadWestvaco bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Packaging, Brand and January. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • MeadWestvaco
    • Packaging
    • Brand
    • January
    • Virginia
    • Mwv
    • Company
    • Announced
    • Also
    • Employees
    • Richmond
    • Westvaco
    • Sold
  • meadwestvaco
    • Packaging
    • Brand
    • January
    • Virginia
    • Mwv
    • Company
    • Announced
    • Also
    • Employees
    • Richmond
    • Westvaco
    • Sold
  • newpage corporation
    • Virginia
    • Mead
    • Formed
    • Richmond
    • Westvaco
    • Company
    • Meadwestvaco
    • Headquarters
    • Information
    • John
    • January
    • Pulp
  • westvaco
    • John
    • January
    • Virginia
    • Corporation
    • Rocktenn
    • Westrock
    • Billion
    • Headquarters
    • Paper
    • Formed
    • Including
    • Pulp
  • packaging
    • Announced
    • Combined
    • Rocktenn
    • Billion
    • President
    • Employees
    • January
    • Mill
    • Richmond
    • Business
    • Sold
    • Virginia
  • richmond
    • Headquarters
    • Virginia
    • Rocktenn
    • Westrock
    • Information
    • John
    • Also
    • January
    • Westvaco
    • Mwv
    • Mead
  • virginia
    • Westvaco
    • Rocktenn
    • Westrock
    • Formed
    • Including
    • Pulp
    • Companies
    • Acquired
    • Paper
  • information technology
    • Also
    • Data
    • Million
    • Richmond
    • System
    • Virginia
    • Meadwestvaco
    • Mead

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For MeadWestvaco, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects MeadWestvaco with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
MeadWestvaco — History · splits 20 ⟂ 24
MeadWestvaco — Environmental record · splits 34 ⟂ 10
MeadWestvaco — Overview · splits 35 ⟂ 9

Map overview Semantic statistics

MeadWestvaco

Nodes44
Edges43
Triples63
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.045455
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around MeadWestvaco to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — MeadWestvaco · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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