Find related topics. | Discover entities. | See connections. | Build a topical map.
Building topical map: Starting…
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.
Use the mouse wheel or two fingers (on touchscreens) to zoom in and out of the map.
More settings
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
85
Concept neighborhoods
10
Bridge connections
43
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
History · 23 topics
Environmental record · 9 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
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)
Suggested research paths
A focused starting point derived from the topic graph, ranked independently of the source article order.
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How MeadWestvaco connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
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, In, Index, It, 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 → Archives, Collections, Company, Durham, Forest History Society Library, James Madison University's Special, John Thurmes Collection, MeadWestvaco Research Reports, NCHilroy, NCInventory, NCPapers, Oxford Paper Company Records, Paper Company Logging Photographs, Virginia Pulp, Westvaco Corporation Records, WestvacoGuide. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
MeadWestvaco
Top relations
related to Environmental record· 20
MeadWestvaco → Abundant Forests Alliance, CCX, Cerflor, Chicago Climate Exchange, Dow Jones Sustainability World, Duke University Climate Change, In, Index, It, 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 External links· 16
MeadWestvaco → Archives, Collections, Company, Durham, Forest History Society Library, James Madison University's Special, John Thurmes Collection, MeadWestvaco Research Reports, NCHilroy, NCInventory, NCPapers, Oxford Paper Company Records, Paper Company Logging Photographs, Virginia Pulp, Westvaco Corporation Records, WestvacoGuide
related to 2000 to present· 13
MeadWestvaco → Also, Cerberus Capital Management, Charleston, In, Kapstone Paper, Mead, MWV, NewPage Corporation, Packaging, Papers, SC, The, Westvaco
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 85 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.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
MeadWestvaco
Defunct
July 1, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-07-01)
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Fate
Merged with RockTenn
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Founded
January 2002 (2002-01)
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Headquarters
Richmond, Virginia[citation needed]
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Key people
John A. Luke, Jr., Chairman & CEO James A. Buzzard, President E. Mark Rajkowski, CFO & Senior Vice President
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Net income
US$246,000,000 (2011)
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Number of employees
23,000 (2014)
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Operating income
US$422,000,000 (2011)
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Predecessor
The Mead Corporation Westvaco
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Revenue
US$6,060,000,000 (2011)
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Successor
WestRock
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Traded as
NYSE: MWV
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Type
Public
1.00
infobox
MeadWestvaco
Website
www.mwv.com
1.00
infobox
No triples extracted yet.
Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
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
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
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.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
MeadWestvaco
Nodes44
Edges43
Triples85
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.
