{"id":10424,"date":"2023-06-23T06:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2023-06-23T06:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:22:32","slug":"westrock-lands-top-industry-spot-in-fortune-500-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/23\/westrock-lands-top-industry-spot-in-fortune-500-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"WestRock Lands Top Industry Spot in Fortune 500 Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WestRock Company (NYSE:WRK), a leading provider of sustainable paper and packaging solutions, has been ranked first in the Packaging and Containers industry category by Fortune Magazine on its 69th annual&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/ranking\/fortune500\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortune 500 ranking<\/a>&nbsp;list. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prestigious list recognizes the 500 largest corporations in the United States by total revenue, for the 2022 fiscal year. WestRock rose to the top of its industry as the Company\u2019s 2022 revenue increased by 13.5%, with profit rising by 12.7%. WestRock currently places #183 on the overall list, up 9 points from the 2022 Fortune Ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWestRock believes our greatest business opportunity lies at the intersection of innovation and sustainability, and this recognition from Fortune is a testament to the success of putting sustainability at the core of our business,\u201d said David B. Sewell, Chief Executive Officer of WestRock. \u201cI want to thank our WestRock team members for their commitment to excellence and dedication to helping WestRock reach our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The Company released its 2022 Sustainability Report in May, highlighting new innovations to replace plastic with fiber-based materials and develop alternative packaging solutions using technologies such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westrock.com\/products\/paperboard\/enshield\">Enshield<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westrock.com\/products\/folding-cartons\/cancollar\">CanCollar<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westrock.com\/products\/automation\/boxsizer\">BoxSizer<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/a>. WestRock\u2019s design for a renewable bakery takeout tray using EnShield \u00ae Natural Kraft (ENK) was awarded the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pac-awards.com\/2022-winners\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;PAC Global Award for Sustainable Design in 2022<\/a>. For more information about WestRock or to read the 2022 Sustainability Report, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westrock.com\/sustainability\">westrock.com\/sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WestRock Company (NYSE:WRK), a leading provider of sustainable paper and packaging solutions, has been ranked first in the Packaging and Containers industry category by Fortune Magazine on its 69th annual&nbsp;Fortune 500 ranking&nbsp;list. &nbsp; The prestigious list recognizes the 500 largest corporations in the United States by total revenue, for the 2022 fiscal year. WestRock rose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[298],"class_list":{"0":"post-10424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corrugated-folding-carton","8":"tag-westrock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10425,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions\/10425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}