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Stone Container
Background
J.H. Stone & Sons, a cardboard container and paper products manufacturer was founded by Joseph Stone in 1926 and after World War II reincorporated as Stone Container Corporation. Early on in its conception Stone was able to grow significantly by way of acquisition. The company had a policy of paying for its acquisitions either entirely in cash or borrowing funds with early repayment. Continuing to grow, the company became publicly-owned when it issued its first 250,000 shares of stock in 1947. After its first IPO, Stone was able to widen its reach demographically. The company began acquiring even more to better diversify itself in the paper industry. By 1987 Stone had quintupled its production capacity but had borrowed heavily to do so. Stone Forest Industries, a subsidiary of Stone Container, was created to relieve some of this debt and Stone Container was able to diminish the rest. In 1989, Stone was back at it when it acquired Consolidated-Bathurst Inc in conjunction with its $3.3 billion of debt. Even with its high standing in the industry, in 1993 Stone Containers future was a shaking one; one that came down to how it would avoid defaulting on its $4.1 billion of debt.
Problems Facing the Company
Due to heavy acquisition, Stone Container Corporation has put themselves in a tight financial situation with upcoming debt and interest payments. Stone 's plans to finance its large acquisitions such as the one of Consolidated-Bathurst, went awry when its plan to refinance its loans with high-yield bonds was eliminated. This was partially due to regulators forcing many saving and loans banks to dump their junk bonds. Stone found a way to relieve some of its financial pressure by refinancing and restructuring its debt using securities such as interest rate swaps and convertible exchangeable preferred stock. An interest rate swap would allow Stone to exchange a stream of interest payments for another party 's stream of cash flows. This

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