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The combined Rock-Tenn and MeadWestvaco will have sales nearly twice as high as their next largest publicly traded U.S. competitor, but investors might want to take a look at Packaging Corp. of America, which has greatly outperformed the rest of the sector over the past five years.
Rock-Tenn Corp. RKT, +6.13% of Norcross, Ga., and MeadWestvaco Corp. MWV, +14.01% of Richmond, Va., announced a merger on Monday, which sent shares of Rock-Tenn up as much as 12%, while MeadWestvacos stock was up as much as 20%.
While MeadWestvaco had considerably lower sales than Rock-Tenn during 2014 and a lower market capitalization when the market closed on Friday, the companys shareholders will wind up holding 50.1% of the yet-to-be named new companys stock. But Rock-Tenns CEO Steven C. Voorhees will be the CEO of the combined company.
The combined companys net sales for 2014 came to $15.7 billion, which was nearly twice as high as the sales of the next largest U.S. competitor. The companies expect the combination to lead to $300 million in annual cost savings over the next three years.
Heres a list of all 13 S&P 1500 stocks in the Containers/Packaging subsector, with the merging companies at the top, followed by the rest, ranked by sales for the past 12 reported months (most havent yet announced results for the fourth quarter of 2014):
In comparison to those total returns, the S&P 1500 Composite Index returned 13% during 2014. The three-year total return for the index through Friday was 110% and the five-year return was 121%.
MeadWestvaco was last years best performer among the group, but Packaging Corp. of America PKG, +1.87% of Lake Forest, Ill., ran a close second and has run way ahead of the pack with a three-year return of 227% and a five-year return of 333%.
Packaging Corp of America acquired Boise Inc. in December 2013 for $2.1 billion, which helped it grow net sales for the first three quarters of 2014 by 84% to $4.42 billion. The company will announce its fourth-quarter results today, after the market close.
Packaging Corp. of America expects the Boise acquisition to lead to $175 million in annual cost savings by the end of 2016. The company said its annual run rate for cost savings had climbed to roughly $110 million at the end of the third quarter. The cost cutting is very important to investors, as PKGs operating profit margin for the third quarter declined to 12.4% from 16.9% a year earlier.
The strength of PKGs stock has reflected five years of strong sales growth, and 2015 should be a good one for the company. For starters, the decline in gasoline prices is lowering its transportation costs and freeing up more consumer cash that could be spent on packaged products, which will help most packaging manufactures. But Packaging Corp. of America will also have a boost to production, because it recently completed the conversion of its newsprint manufacturing facility in DeRidder, La., to containerboard manufacturing.
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Brain scans confirm significant differences in play behavior, brain activation patterns and stress levels in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as compared with typically developing children.
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at Vanderbilt University examined social play exchanges on multiple levels, revealing associations among brain regions, behavior and arousal in children with ASD. The results were released in the journal Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience.
"Play is a fundamental skill in childhood and an area in which children with autism often have difficulty," said the study's principal investigator, Blythe Corbett, Ph.D., associate professor of Psychiatry and a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center investigator. "However, the psychobiological study of play in autism is seldom comprehensively investigated using multiple levels of analysis."
Corbett and colleague Kale Edmiston studied children with ASD using an innovative study design in which participants played with a typically developing child on a playground and then played a social exchange game with either the same child or a computer partner during functional imaging. To measure physiological arousal, salivary cortisol sampling was used before and after the playground protocol.
During a functional MRI (fMRI) scan, participants played a game in which they were asked to cooperate or to compete with a co-player. For half of the game, participants were told they were playing with a child they had just met on the playground. For the other half of the game, children were told they were playing with a computer. However, the children were actually playing with a computer the entire time.
"When participants with ASD were in the MRI scanner and thought they were playing with the child they had just met, their brain activation patterns did not differ from when they thought they were playing with a computer," said Edmiston, who is completing a doctorate in the Vanderbilt Brain Institute Neuroscience Graduate program. "In contrast, typically developing children showed unique activation patterns based on which partner they were playing. This suggests that social agents might not be processed in the brains of people with ASD differently than nonsocial agents."
Corbett said the findings suggest that "some children with autism not only find social engagement with peers less motivating, but it may be stressful, even aversive."
Other ongoing research in Corbett's Social Emotional NeuroScience Endocrinology (SENSE) Lab found that these behavioral and neural responses can be modified by some forms of peer-mediated treatment, including SENSE Theatre, an intervention program developed by Corbett.
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This research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health Grant No. R01 MH085717) and NICHD P30HD15052.
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More details are spilling out from Gov. Mark Dayton about his upcoming budget proposal, and this time it's about new money for education programs.
Dayton told a conference of child advocacy groups Friday that he'll recommend about $372 million for expanded early education scholarships, Head Start programs and subsidized school breakfast. An aide said later that an increase in the basic per-pupil funding allowance will be part of that, too.
In addition, Dayton is set to propose around $160 million for social service programs that benefit struggling families, perhaps through extra child care assistance.
On top of $100 million Dayton has suggested for child-care tax credits, he has now disclosed his plans for the bulk of a projected $1 billion budget surplus.
His full two-year budget is due out Tuesday.
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The big advantage that a show like "48 hours'' has over a newspaper is time. It can spend months putting together a story, like the one that ran Saturday night on Alex Tichelman, the woman charged with manslaughter in the overdose death of Google exec Forrest Hayes.
As a devout follower of the Tichelman case, I was naturally glued. My verdict? I think the "48 Hours'' people did a solid job of reporting, particularly in shedding light on her past. But there is still a mystery about what drove a talented and beautiful woman to drugs and prostitution.
From classmates at a private school in Maine that specializes in teaching troubled young women, the television program learned that Tichelman cut herself on the arms. She made an image of herself as the devil. She was punished by having to build a road.
Then, after a sojourn working strip clubs in San Francisco, she returned to Atlanta, where she lived with a musician and entrepreneur named Dean Riopelle.
Two months before Forrest Hayes died in November, 2013, Riopelle died of a similar overdose. The show replayed Tichelman's call to 911.
Tichelman, 26, has not been charged in that case, though Santa Cruz Assistant Police Chief Steve Clark says his team was "surprised'' at the similarities between the cases.
A friend of Riopelle's named Todd makes a convincing case that Riopelle, who was besotted with Tichelman, took drugs to be closer to his girlfriend.
She was endlessly fascinating to men. Even while she was arranging a meeting with Forrest Hayes on his boat through a site called "Seeking Arrangement'' -- the show has an amusing interview with the website's proud CEO in Las Vegas -- Tichelman had a relationship with a musician named Chad Cornell. Cornell had no idea of her shadow life.
Because of the Hayes family's reticence and Google's secrecy, we know far less about Forrest Hayes, a Midwestern native who worked at Sun and Apple before joining Google X, the branch that develops such things as Google Glass and the driverless car.
The 48 Hours piece did add some details to our understanding: Clark says a crucial 7-minute video from the boat, which has not yet been made public, shows Tichelman injected herself first and then injected Hayes. (According to defense, he used the light on his smartphone to show her where to inject.) Clark says that when Hayes fell unconscious, Tichelman patted him on the cheek, and then cleaned up, wiping down fingerprints. Those details work against her. "I think it's important to see how cold she was,'' Clark says.
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If you're an LG G3 owner in the US who's been waiting for Android 5.0 Lollipop, then your wait is almost over with LG promising that the Lollipop update is "coming soon".
This revelation was Tweeted by the official LG USA Mobile account on Friday January 23, accompanied by a Lollipop-themed image which claimed that "Life with your LG G3 is about to get sweeter".
Although the "coming soon" promise is a bit vague some territories have already received the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the LG G3, so the update it expected to roll out to all devices in a matter of days.
Although LG tweeted about the Android 5.0 Lollipop update coming to LG G3 handsets in the US, it's been a bit quiet on plans for the UK.
Currently the Android 5.0 Lollipop update is available for Vodafone, Virgin and unlocked devices. We've reached out to LG to find out when other networks will receive the update, but at the moment there is no official statement.
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The hospitality sector has had it bad for a while. But the worst may be over soon. Check in for the details
The hospitality industry in India has had it rather inhospitable for quite some time now from 2009 to be precise, when the go-go days in the Indian hotel industry gave way to a painful down-cycle. Since then, hotel occupancy levels in the country have dipped, average room rates (ARR) have fallen and the revenue per available room (RevPAR) has slipped badly.
Big squeeze
Blame this on the pincer the sector has been caught in. On the one hand, there is an oversupply of rooms with the massive expansion of the boom years coming to fruition.
On the other hand, demand growth has been less than expected due to weak economic conditions. Data from hospitality consultancy HVS shows that between 2009 and 2014, the number of branded rooms in the country grew at an annual average of above 17 per cent to cross the 1,00,000 mark.
Demand picked up after a disastrous 2009 when the global economic crisis and the Mumbai terror attacks took a heavy toll. But the growth has lagged supply, which already had a head-start. This meant a decline in room occupancy levels to about 57 per cent in 2014, a far cry from the nearly 70 per cent levels between 2005 and 2008.
In a highly competitive and fragmented market with numerous players, worried hoteliers have been resorting to discounting rates to draw in the tourists and businesspersons. This resulted in ARR (total room revenue divided by rooms occupied) declining nearly 6 per cent annually between 2009 and 2014.
Consequently, the RevPAR (total room revenue divided by room inventory), a key performance indicator in the segment, dropped nearly 7 per cent on an annual basis over this period.
The pain in the sector is reflected in the financials of several listed hotel companies. The Tata Group-controlled Indian Hotels, the countrys largest hotel chain, has seen its losses widen over the past few years.
The troubles have been worse for players which borrowed heavily to fund expansion, the luxury hotel chain Hotel Leelaventure being a case in point. Another biggie, EIH, which runs the Oberoi and Trident chains, has managed to stay in the black, but its operating profit has been under pressure for the past few years. Similar is the case in the hotel business of ITC.
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SAVANNAH, Ga.
The Savannah River has enough room for cargo ships to accommodate Georgia and South Carolina adding a new port terminal downstream from the busy Port of Savannah, according to a study presented to officials from both states Monday.
For years, the neighboring states have worked slowly toward building a jointly owned, $3 billion shipping terminal on 1,500 acres in Jasper County, South Carolina, just across the river from Savannah. The South Carolina delegation had been reluctant to move forward without determining if a second port could function without causing traffic jams on the water.
Engineering consultants told the joint port board, meeting Monday for the first time since May, that they developed models to estimate ship traffic in the river channel in the year 2049. They looked at traffic projections for the Port of Savannah alone, then with the addition of the Jasper County terminal. Their report concluded delays affecting ships likely would be slightly more frequent, and just a few minutes longer, with a second port on the river.
"The river is not going to shut down with the addition of the Jasper terminal," said Michael Rieger, project manager for the consulting firm Moffatt & Nichol. "We can still get ships in and out, and the delays are just a little bit longer than what occurs today."
The findings appeared to satisfy South Carolina members of the joint port board, who had previously expressed doubts that a plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to expand the Port of Savannah's shipping channel and make room for larger cargo ships was insufficient to handle a second port terminal.
"We were looking at a go or no-go" situation, said David Posek, a board member of the South Carolina Ports Authority and chairman of the joint port board. "What the study is telling us is there are modifications that are going to be needed, in an efficient way, but the river can accommodate both."
The timing of the Jasper County project remains uncertain. Consultants say they hope to have a draft design ready by September to submit to federal regulators. Georgia and South Carolina officials have said they expect the new port terminal could be permitted, built and operational by about 2030.
Engineers are already working to fix some faults with the terminal's preliminary design. Consultant Jason Ball told the board Monday that the Jasper terminal's wharf will need to pushed an additional 500 feet from the river channel so that waves from passing vessels don't rock ships tied to the dock. He said any rocking motion could slow down crane operators trying to load and unload cargo.
Proponents of the Jasper County terminal say both states will need it once their ports in Savannah and Charleston, South Carolina, run out of capacity.
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