WestRock Co (NYSE:WRK)
$ 52.35 -0.53 (-1%) Market Cap: 13.52 Bil Enterprise Value: 22.06 Bil PE Ratio: 44.07 PB Ratio: 1.34 GF Score: 70/100
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Westrock Co at Stephens Investor Conference Transcript

Nov 14, 2019 / 10:00PM GMT
Release Date Price: $40.5 (+0.32%)
Mark William Connelly
Stephens Inc., Research Division - MD & Senior Equity Research Analyst

So I'm Mark Connelly, and I cover the containerboard names at Stephens. And we're very pleased to have Steve Voorhees, CEO of WestRock, with us; and James Armstrong, who is handing you your presentation.

Steve has been CEO of WestRock and Rock-Tenn before that since 2013 and was really instrumental in turning WestRock into the packaging powerhouse that it is. He was the brains behind the Smurfit-Stone deal that turned Rock-Tenn into the second-largest containerboard company with very little experience in the business at the time. And he turned the WestRock deal into a surprisingly big success for me.

I said at the time that I thought it was the most complex merger integration that we would see because the cultures of the 2 companies were so different. He told me I was wrong, but proceeded to integrate the two and show that, whether I was right or wrong, he got it right. And of course, last year, he took on KapStone, and we're already seeing WestRock get more out of those assets than

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