Rock-Tenn Company (NYSE: RKT) Effective with shipments July 14, 2008 Rock-Tenn’s Paperboard Division will increase all coated and uncoated recycled paperboard prices $50 per ton. Unprecedented increases in the cost of manufacturing makes this short notice of implementation necessary.

Tribune Company announced today that it has signed a $300 million asset-backed commercial paper facility with Barclays Bank PLC.

Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, announced today that it will permanently close its Montreal, Quebec, Canada, uncoated recycled paperboard mill, effective August 27, 2008, according to James Harrell, division vice president and general manager, Paper North America.

Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector contracted in June, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®.

Matthews International Corporation (Nasdaq: MATW) today announced plans to release third quarter fiscal 2008 results after the market closes on Thursday, July 24, 2008.