Pactiv Corporation

MOORHEAD, Minn. - Fire Chief Rich Duysen said the fire that destroyed the Pactiv Advanced Packaging Solutions buildingegg carton production plant is the largest he's seen in nearly 20 years. Duysen said the fire was likely started by a pulp dryer on the...

Bedbugs aren’t always bad news, at least not for a company that makes mattress protection products. And bedbugs are also the source of good news …...

By Michael Oneal | Shares of Hefty-bag maker Pactiv Corp. shot up 21 percent in early trading Monday on word that private-equity giant Apollo Management is in talks to buy the Lake Forest-based manufacturer, and consolidate it with a packaging company...

From Bloomberg News | Shares of Pactiv Corp., the maker of Hefty bags, hit a 20-month high Wednesday afternoon on talk that Georgia-Pacific and Rank Group had joined bidding for the company.Read the full story: bloomberg.com...

Associated Press | Shares of Pactiv Corp. fell Tuesday as reports surfaced that the maker of Hefty trash bags is not close to a buyout deal.Shares have soared in recent weeks on reports that several companies, including investment firm Apollo Global...

Dow Jones Newswires | Pactiv Corp.'s first-quarter profit dropped 38 percent as rising material costs hurt the packaging company's margins, and sales growth missed Wall Street's expectations.Looking ahead, it expected per-share earnings of 52 cents to...

Monday: -- Earnings: Altera Corp.; American Express Co.; Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Avaya Inc.; BellSouth Corp.; Centex Corp.; Kraft Foods Inc.; Pactiv Corp.; Quest Diagnostics Inc.; SanDisk Corp.; Texas Instruments Inc. Tuesday: -- July consumer...

Amid rising investor nervousness, volatility and turmoil in debt markets stemming from defaults on subprime mortgages, Chicago-area stocks managed to largely hold their own over the last three months. Perhaps surprisingly, there were only a dozen...

Chicago-area stocks have not gotten off to a particularly good start in 2003. As market benchmarks look to break the first three-year losing streak since World War II, the biggest local companies endured a rocky first quarter, with a few, mostly limited,...

Stock prices face potentially sharp adjustments to new global economic realities as soon as trading resumes. Trading has been frozen since last Monday, but investor sentiment toward equities has ebbed and flowed with each news headline. Generally,...