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Rock-Tenn Co. will eliminate all but a few of the 69 jobs at its corrugated box plant at 2800 W. Custer Ave.

At its monthly meeting, Gwinnett Village CID 's Executive Director, Chuck Warbington, announced the departure of John McHenry who had been the Program Director for the past six years.

Even in a tidy, consolidated market, there's no guarantee that the biggest companies will perform alike, says Mark Connelly, an analyst with CrA©dit Agricole SA.

RockTenn Co. will shutter its Milwaukee container facility in July, leaving 69 people without jobs, according to a company letter to the state of Wisconsin received Wednesday.

HD Supply this year became the 16th Georgia company to make the annual Fortune 500 list, published Monday .

Amy Smotherman Burgess/Business Journal Goodwill Industries employees sort plastics at the Rock Tenn facility in Knoxville in August 2012.

Carol Brong Edmonds of Lebanon Township is one of the few people anymore who stays with the same company for decades.

About 90 people will be laid off as part of the closure Rock-Tenn Company's paper manufacturing plant on Maple Street according to the Sun Chronicle.

They currently have a $101.50 target price on the stock. Shares of Rock-Tenn Company traded down 2.57% during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $97.57. Rock-Tenn Company has a 52 week low of $49.24 and a 52 week high of $103.07. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $89.30. The company has a market cap of $7.113 billion and a P/E ratio ... (more)

RockTenn delivered its third consecutive positive earnings surprise on April 23, and earnings estimates have been soaring ever since.

Realizing Every One's Ability to Develop Yourself, or Project R.E.A.D.Y. was developed by Congresswoman Terri Sewell to help address what she says is the number 1 issue in her district: unemployment.

The firm currently has a buy rating on the stock. Shares of Rock-Tenn Company opened at 96.16 on Thursday.

RockTenn today reported that its Board of Directors declared a dividend of $0.30 per share on its Class A Common Stock to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 7, 2013.

RKT has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports. Analysts at Jefferies Group raised their price target on shares of Rock-Tenn Company from $117.00 to $125.00 in a research note to investors on Thursday.

RockTenn has reported mixed results for the quarter ending 31 March 2013 with corrugated packaging up but consumer packaging down.

Rock-Tenn Company announced its earnings results on Tuesday. The company reported $1.12 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.05 by $0.07, StockRatingsNetwork reports.

Rock-Tenn traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $86.25 to a high of $89.90. Yesterday, the shares gained 3.5%, which took the trading range above the 3-day high of $88.72 on volume of 1.4 million shares.