MeadWestvaco Corporation Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

April 2024 | 50 pages | ID: MAD790D0832BEN
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Abstracts

MeadWestvaco Corporation Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between MeadWestvaco Corporation and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of MeadWestvaco Corporation position in the Paper and Forest Products Industry.

• The report contains detailed information about MeadWestvaco Corporation that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
• Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for MeadWestvaco Corporation. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
• The MeadWestvaco Corporation financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
• In the part that describes MeadWestvaco Corporation competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
• Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of MeadWestvaco Corporation business.

About MeadWestvaco Corporation

MeadWestvaco Corporation, a packaging company, provides packaging solutions in the healthcare, personal care and beauty, food, beverage, media and entertainment, home and garden, tobacco, and commercial print industries. The company’s other business operations serve the consumer and office products, specialty chemicals, forestry, and real estate markets.

Segments

The company’s business segments include Packaging Resources; Consumer Solutions; Consumer & Office Products; Specialty Chemicals; and Community Development and Land Management.

Packaging Resources

The Packaging Resources segment produces bleached paperboard (SBS), Coated Natural Kraft paperboard (CNK), and linerboard. This segment’s paperboard products are manufactured at three mills located in the U.S. and two mills located in Brazil. SBS is used for packaging high-value consumer products in markets, such as pharmaceuticals, personal care, beauty, tobacco, and beverage and food service. CNK is used for a range of packaging applications (for MWV is multi-pack beverage packaging). Linerboard is used in the manufacture of corrugated boxes and other containers.

Consumer Solutions

The Consumer Solutions segment designs and produces multi-pack cartons and packaging systems primarily for the global beverage take-home market and packaging for the global tobacco market. In addition, this segment offers a range of converting and consumer packaging solutions, including printed plastic packaging and injection-molded products used for personal care, beauty, and pharmaceutical products; dispensing and sprayer systems for personal care, beauty, healthcare, fragrance and home and garden markets; and packaging for media products, such as DVDs, CDs, video games, and software. Paperboard and plastic are converted into packaging products at plants located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, this segment has a pharmaceutical packaging contract with a mass-merchant, and manufactures equipment that is leased or sold to its beverage and dairy customers to package their products.

Consumer & Office Products

The Consumer & Office Products segment manufactures, sources, markets, and distributes school and office products, time-management products, and envelopes in North America and Brazil through both retail and commercial channels. MWV produces various brand names in school supplies, time-management, and commercial office products, including AMCAL, AT-A-GLANCE, Cambridge, COLUMBIAN, Day Runner, Five Star, Mead, and Trapper Keeper.

Specialty Chemicals

The Specialty Chemicals segment manufactures, markets, and distributes specialty chemicals derived from sawdust and other byproducts of the papermaking process in North America, South America, and Asia. Products include activated carbon used in emission control systems for automobiles and trucks, as well as for water and food purification applications, and performance chemicals used in printing inks, asphalt paving, adhesives and lubricants for the agricultural, paper, and petroleum industries.

Community Development and Land Management

The Community Development and Land Management segment engages in real estate development, forestry operations, and leasing activities. Real estate development includes selling non-core forestlands primarily for recreational and residential uses, entitling and improving high-value tracts through joint ventures and other ownership arrangements, and master planning select landholdings. Forestry operations include growing and harvesting softwood and hardwood on the company’s forestlands for external consumption and for use by the company’s mill-based business. Leasing activities include fees from third parties undertaking mineral extraction operations, as well as fees from recreational leases on the company’s forestlands.

International operations

The company operations outside the U.S. are conducted through subsidiaries located in Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, and Asia.

Significant Events

On September 08, 2010, MeadWestvaco Corp., VOW Resources and Zera Energy Inc. announced a strategic, collaborative development effort to enable the conversion of organic waste streams into biogas and other value added products.

History

MeadWestvaco Corporation was founded in 1888.

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Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION COMPANY PROFILE

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION BUSINESS OVERVIEW

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. MeadWestvaco Corporation Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of MeadWestvaco Corporation and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of MeadWestvaco Corporation and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. MeadWestvaco Corporation Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Paper and Forest Products Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. MeadWestvaco Corporation Industry Position Analysis

6. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION EXPERTS REVIEW¹

7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions

8. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS²

9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS²

9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

10. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES²

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

11. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS²

12. MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION VRIO ANALYSIS²

APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF FIGURES

MeadWestvaco Corporation Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
MeadWestvaco Corporation 1-year Stock Charts
MeadWestvaco Corporation 5-year Stock Charts
MeadWestvaco Corporation vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
MeadWestvaco Corporation vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
MeadWestvaco Corporation Article Density Chart

1 – Data availability depends on company’s security policy.
2 – These sections are available only when you purchase a report with appropriate additional types of analyses.
The complete financial data is available for publicly traded companies.

List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

MeadWestvaco Corporation Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
MeadWestvaco Corporation Key Executives
MeadWestvaco Corporation Major Shareholders
MeadWestvaco Corporation History
MeadWestvaco Corporation Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
MeadWestvaco Corporation Offices and Representations
MeadWestvaco Corporation SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
MeadWestvaco Corporation Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
MeadWestvaco Corporation Capital Market Snapshot
MeadWestvaco Corporation Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Paper and Forest Products Industry Statistics
MeadWestvaco Corporation Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
MeadWestvaco Corporation Consensus Recommendations¹
Analyst Recommendation Summary¹
Price Target Summary¹
Experts Recommendation Trends¹
Revenue Estimates Analysis¹
Earnings Estimates Analysis¹
Historical Surprises¹
Revenue Estimates Trend¹
Earnings Estimates Trend¹
Revenue Revisions¹

ANALYSIS FEATURES

SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

• How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
• How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

• Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
• Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
• Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
• Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
• Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
• Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

• Tangible resources
  • Financial
  • Physical
  • Technological
  • Organizational
• Intangible resources
  • Human
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Reputation
• Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

• Valuable?
• Rare?
• Costly to imitate?
• Organized properly?