Northbrook, Illinois, USA, 08 February 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation (NYSE: KS), a leading North American producer of unbleached kraft paper products and linerboard, will release its 2010 fourth quarter and full year earnings on 14 February 2011, after the market closes.

The company will host a conference call on 15 February 2011 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Central Time) to review the results for the quarter and the year. All interested parties are invited to listen and may do so by either accessing a simultaneous broadcast webcast at http://www.kapstonepaper.com. For persons unable to access the webcast, the following dial-in numbers are available: 800-561-2718 (domestic) or 617-614-3525 (international); participant passcode: 49183955.

A presentation to be viewed in conjunction with the call also will be available on the Web site, http://www.kapstonepaper.com, in the "Investors" section.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at http://earnings.com/, Thomson's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (http://streetevents.com/) a password-protected event management site. A replay of the webcast will also be on the Web site beginning at approximately 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time the same day.

Headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation is a leading North American producer of unbleached kraft paper products and linerboard. The company is the parent company of KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation, which includes paper mills in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and North Charleston, South Carolina, a lumber mill in Summerville, South Carolina, and five chipping mills in South Carolina. The business employs approximately 1600 people.