2002
JANUARY	SCA Tissue N. America LLC acquired Encore Paper Co. of S Glens Falls, NY for $92 billion on a debt free basis.
	Leader Paper Products acquired Papercraft Inc. Papercraft will retain its name and be run as an ind. Subsidiary of Co.  William and Robert Buege will continue involvement with day-to-day operation, most employees will remain.
	Bunzl Distribution Inc. has acquired the Eastern Paper division of EPC Industries in Canada, a distributor to supermarkets and Packers Engineering & Equipment, a food processor supplies business based in Omaha, NE.
	Pactiv Corp. announced the sale of its single-faced corrugated business to Palm Industrie Beteiligungs GmbH Co. KG. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
	Sonoco has purchased the assets of Pac One’s flexible packaging operation in New Hope, MN. The purchase price was not disclosed.
FEBRUARY	Piedmont National of Atlanta, GA has signed a definitive agreement with American Packaging Systems of Montgomery, AL to acquire American’s assets.
	Willamette has decided to continue negotiations with Georgia-Pacific Corp. regarding combining both companies’ building materials businesses. Willamette also announced rejection of a $55 per share offer from Willamette.
MARCH	Efficient Foodservice Response (EFR) & Uniform Code Council (UCC) have developed a partnership with a goal to develop electronic standards for the food distribution industry to be adopted by operators, distributors, and manuf.
	SCA acquired Italian tissue comp. CartoInvest-becoming the leading European producer of tissue to retail grocery.
	Weyerhaeuser and Willamette sign definitive merger agreement.  Weyerhaeuser will acquire all outstanding shares for $55.50 p/s., and assume approx 1.7 billion of Willamette debt.
	Temple-Inland Inc. announced new tender offer to acquire Gaylord Container Corp. under a merger agreement.
	Ranpak Corp. announced completion of acquisition and refinancing arrangement with First Atlantic Capital, which will have a controlling interest in stock, but key members of management will remain shareholders.
	International Paper announced due to unfavorable economic conditions, it will shut down the lumber mill in Morton, MS.
	Smurfit-Stone announced decision to combine its Consumer Packaging and Specialty Packaging businesses into one organization to be called the Consumer Packaging Division.
APRIL/MAY	Sappi Ltd. reached agreement to acquire potlatch Corp.’s coated fine paper business and its Cloquet, MN pulp and paper mill for US $480-million in cash.
	Weyerhaeuser Co. completed its acquisition of Willamette Industries.  As of March 14, Willamette Industries became a wholly owned subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser and share of Willamette common stock not held by Weyerhaeuser were converted into the right to receive $55.50 in cash without interest when surrendered for payment.
JUNE	International Paper entered into a purchase and sale agreement to sell its Decorative Products Division to an affiliate of Kohlberg & Co.
	PaperlinX Ltd. reached an agreement to acquire La Papeterie LP Turgeon Inc.
	Yupo Corp. America purchased  In-Mold Label and Non-Label Specialty Paper from Kimberly-Clark Corp.
	Temple-Inland Inc. completed the tender offer for shares and notes of Gaylord Container Corp.
	Spinnaker Coating’s assets have been purchased by WR Capital Partners, thus removing Spinnaker’s pressure sensitive label stock business from bankruptcy proceedings.  A newly formed entity, Spinnaker Coating, LLC, will operate the business.
	Cauthorne Paper Co., Richmond, VA, purchased slitting and rewinding assets (two machines) from Hodge Converting Co., Greensboro, NC.
	Gould Paper Corp. acquired 100% of the stock of WWF International UK Ltd. and its subsidisary, WWF Paper Sales UK Ltd.
	PaperlinX signed an unconditional agreement to acquire UK based Bunzl Find Paper from Bunzl pc for approximately $211 million (US $), excluding costs.
	Intuit Inc. (financial software provider and web-based services) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Eclipse, Inc., provider of business management software solutions for wholesale durable goods distributors.
	Sappi announced it met all legal and regulatory requirements with its purchase from Potlatch Corp. of its printing papers division as well as the Cloquet pulp and paper mill in Duluth, MN.
	Pactiv Corp. completed the acquisition of Winkler Forming, Inc. for $72.5 million.
JULY/AUGUST	UPM-Kymmene Corporation will acquire MACtac, the pressure sensitive materials business from the U.S. based Bemis Company Inc., for USD 420 million. At the same time, under separate agreement, UPM-Kymmene will sell its plastic films manufacturer, Walki Films, to Bemis Company, Inc. for USD 70 million.
	Georgia-Pacific Corp. agreed to sell 60% interest in its Unisource Worldwide paper distribution subsidiary to Bain Capital (a global private investment firm).
	Industrial Packaging Corp. (IPC), Atlanta, GA, acquired the Georgia and Alabama operations of Alles of the Carolinas, Inc.
	NxTrend Technology, Inc. acquired CorpDNA, a provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions.