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<p><font SIZE="1">&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2003</p>

<p align="right">Registration No. 333-__________</font></p>
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<p ALIGN="CENTER">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</b><font SIZE="1"></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">Washington, D.C. 20549</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">___________________</font><font SIZE="2"></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">FORM S-8</font><font SIZE="1"></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">___________________</font><b></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION</b><font SIZE="1"></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</p>

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    <td width="50%" align="center"></font><strong><font SIZE="2">Colorado</font></strong><font
    SIZE="1"><b><br>
    </b>(State or other jurisdiction of<br>
    incorporation or organization)</font></td>
    <td width="50%" align="center"><strong><font SIZE="2">84-1208699</font></strong><font
    SIZE="1"><br>
    (IRS Employer<br>
    Identification Number)</font></td>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><strong><font SIZE="2">4455 Table Mountain Drive</font></strong></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><strong><font SIZE="2">Golden, Colorado 80403</font></strong></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><strong><font SIZE="2">(303) 271-7000</font></strong><font SIZE="1"></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">including area code, of Registrant&#146;s principal executive offices)</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font SIZE="2">Graphic Packaging Equity Incentive Plan</font></b><font
SIZE="1"></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">(Full title of the plan(s))</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">___________________</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font SIZE="2">Jill B.W. Sisson, Esq.</font></b></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>General Counsel</b></font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>Graphic Packaging International Corporation</b></font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>4455 Table Mountain Drive</b></font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>Golden, Colorado 80403</b></font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>(303) 271-7000</b></font><font SIZE="1"></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">(Name, address, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for
service)</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">___________________</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>

<p><i>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">Copy to:</i><b></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font SIZE="2">W. Dean Salter, Esq.</font></b></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>Holme Roberts &amp; Owen LLP</b></font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 4100</b></font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>Denver, Colorado 80203</b></font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>(303) 861-7000</b></font><font SIZE="1"></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">___________________<b></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</b></p>

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    </font><td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b><br>
    <br>
    Title of Securities to be Registered</b></font></p>
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    </td>
    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b><br>
    Maximum<br>
    Amount to be Registered(1)</b></font></p>
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    </td>
    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b><br>
    Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share (2)</b></font></p>
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    </td>
    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b>Proposed<br>
    Maximum Aggregate Offering Price</b></font></p>
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    </td>
    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><b><br>
    <br>
    Amount of Registration Fee</b></font></p>
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    </td>
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    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2">Common Stock, $.01 par
    value</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><br>
    5,000,000 shares</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><br>
    $4.745</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><br>
    $23,725,000</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="bottom"><p ALIGN="CENTER"><font SIZE="2"><br>
    $1,919.35</font></td>
    <font SIZE="1">
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<ol style="font-size: larger">
  <li></font><font size="2">This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares
    of Common Stock which become issuable by reason of any stock dividend, stock dividend,
    stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the receipt of
    consideration which results in an increase in the number of the Registrant&#146;s
    outstanding shares of Common Stock.</font></li>
  <li><font size="2">Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the
    registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The
    above calculation is based on the average of the high and low sale prices of the Common
    Stock reported on the New York Stock Exchange on June&nbsp;25, 2003.</font></li>
</ol>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font size="3">Form S-8 Pursuant to General Instruction E</font></p>

<p><font size="3">This Form S-8 is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
&quot;Commission&quot;) pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8. The Form S-8 filed
with the Commission on December 17, 1992, by Graphic Packaging International Corporation
(the &quot;Registrant&quot;), File Number 33-55894, and the Form S-8 filed with the
Commission on August 31, 1998, File Number 333-09390 are hereby incorporated by reference
into this Form S-8.</font></p>

<p><font size="3">The Registrant hereby registers the issuance of an additional 5,000,000
shares of the Registrant&#146;s Common Stock.</font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font size="3">PART II</font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font size="3">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><font size="3">ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE</font></p>

<p><font size="3">The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference in this Registration
Statement the following documents:</font></p>

<p><font size="3">(a) The Registrant&#146;s <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000089843003002029/0000898430-03-002029-index.htm">Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002</a>;</font></p>

<p><font size="3">(b) The Registrant&#146;s <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000104746903011110/0001047469-03-011110-index.htm">Definitive
Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A dated March&nbsp;31, 2003</a>;</font></p>

<p><font size="3">(c) The Registrant&#146;s <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000103570403000301/0001035704-03-000301-index.htm">Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2003</a>;</font></p>

<p><font size="3">(d) The Registrant&#146;s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the
Commission on <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000089279303000003/0000892793-03-000003-index.htm">February
19, 2003</a>, <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000089279303000005/0000892793-03-000005-index.htm">March
25, 2003</a> (as amended on <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000089279303000007/0000892793-03-000007-index.htm">March
31, 2003</a>), <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000095012303003385/0000950123-03-003385-index.htm">March
28, 2003</a>, <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000095013403005951/0000950134-03-005951-index.htm">April
16, 2003</a> and <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000089279303000011/0000892793-03-000011-index.htm">May
5, 2003</a>;</font></p>

<p><font size="3">(e) The <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886239/000104746903016368/0001047469-03-016368-index.htm">Registration
Statement on Form S-4 filed with the Commission by Riverwood Holding, Inc. on May 2, 2003</a>,
File No. 333-104928 (as amended on <a
href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886239/000104746903021255/0001047469-03-021255-index.htm">June
13, 2003</a>); and</font></p>

<p><font size="3">(f) The description of Common Stock of the Registrant contained in the
Registrant&#146;s registration statement on Form 10, as amended, File No. 001-14060.</font></p>

<p><font size="3">All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing of
a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or
which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated
by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents unless all or a portion of such documents are deemed not to be
filed.</font></p>

<p><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p><font size="3">ITEM 8.&nbsp;&nbsp; EXHIBITS</font></p>

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    <td width="12%" valign="top"><u>Exhibit No.</u><p>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="88%" valign="top"><u>Description</u></td>
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    <td width="12%" bgcolor="#80FFFF">5.1</td>
    <td width="88%" bgcolor="#80FFFF"><a href="exhibit51.htm">Opinion of Holme Roberts &amp;
    Owen LLP</a></td>
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    <td width="12%">10.1</td>
    <td width="88%"><a
    href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892793/000089279301500004/equityincentiveplan.txt">Graphic
    Packaging Equity Incentive Plan, as amended</a>. (Incorporated by reference to Form 10-K
    filed on March 23, 2001)</td>
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    <td width="12%" bgcolor="#80FFFF"><a NAME="OLE_LINK1">23.1</a></td>
    <td width="88%" bgcolor="#80FFFF"><a NAME="OLE_LINK1" href="exhibit231.htm">Consent of
    PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</a></td>
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    <td width="12%"><a NAME="OLE_LINK1">23.2</a></td>
    <td width="88%"><a NAME="OLE_LINK1">Consent of Holme Roberts &amp; Owen LLP (included in
    Exhibit 5.1)</a></td>
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    <td width="12%" bgcolor="#80FFFF"><a NAME="OLE_LINK1">24.1</a></td>
    <td width="88%" bgcolor="#80FFFF"><a NAME="OLE_LINK1">Powers of Attorney (included in the
    signature pages)</a></td>
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    <td width="12%"></td>
    <td width="88%"></td>
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<p></a><font size="3">ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS</font></p>

<p><font size="3">(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:</font></p>

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    <p><font size="3">(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
    a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:</font></p>
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      <blockquote>
        <p><font size="3">(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
        Securities Act;</font></p>
        <p><font size="3">(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
        effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
        thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
        information set forth in the Registration Statement; and</font></p>
        <p><font size="3">(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
        distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change
        to such information in the Registration Statement;</font></p>
      </blockquote>
    </blockquote>
    <p><font size="3">Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
    if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
    paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to Section 13
    or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the
    Registration Statement;</font></p>
    <p><font size="3">(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
    Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
    registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of
    such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;
    and </font></p>
    <p><font size="3">(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
    any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
    offering.</font></p>
  </blockquote>
</blockquote>

<p><font size="3">(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant&#146;s
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.</font></p>

<p><font size="3">(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, executive officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6 above, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with
the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel
the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.</font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER"><font size="3">SIGNATURES</font></p>

<p><font size="3">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City and County
of Denver, State of Colorado, on this 30<sup>th</sup> day of June, 2003.</font></p>

<p><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p><font size="3">GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION</font></p>

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<p><font size="3">By:<u> /s/ Jeffrey H. Coors </u></font></p>

<p><font size="3">Name: Jeffrey H. Coors</font></p>

<p><font size="3">Title: Chairman and President</font></p>

<p><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p><font size="3">We, the undersigned officers and directors of Graphic Packaging
International Corporation hereby severally constitute and appoint Jill B.W. Sisson and
Jeffrey H. Coors, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys, with full power
to them and each of them singly, to sign for us in our names in the capacities indicated
below, all pre-effective and post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement and
any abbreviated Registration Statement in connection with this Registration Statement,
including but not limited to any Registration Statement filed to register additional
Common Stock which may be acquired pursuant to the Graphic Packaging Equity Incentive
Plan; and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission; and to sign all documents in
connection with the qualification and sale of the Common Stock with Blue Sky authorities
and with the New York Stock Exchange; granting unto said attorneys-in-fact full power and
authority to perform any other act on behalf of the undersigned required to be done in the
premises, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, this Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated:</font></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
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    <td width="33%" align="center" valign="bottom"></u>NAME<u><hr>
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    <td width="33%" align="center" valign="bottom">TITLE<u><hr>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" align="center" valign="bottom">DATE<u><hr>
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    <td width="33%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
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    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">/s/ Jeffrey H. Coors<br>
    Jeffrey H. Coors</font><u><p></u>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">Chairman and Principal Executive Officer</font></td>
    <td width="34%"><font SIZE="2">June 30, 2003</font></td>
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    <td width="33%"></td>
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    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">/s/ William K. Coors<br>
    William K. Coors</font><u><p></u>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">Director</font></td>
    <td width="34%"><font SIZE="2">June 30, 2003</font></td>
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    <td width="34%"></td>
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    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">/s/ John D. Beckett<br>
    John D. Beckett</font><u><p></u>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">Director</font></td>
    <td width="34%"><font SIZE="2">June 18, 2003</font></td>
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    <td width="33%"></td>
    <td width="33%"></td>
    <td width="34%"></td>
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    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">/s/ Harold R. Logan, Jr. <br>
    Harold R. Logan, Jr.</font><u><p></u>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">Director</font></td>
    <td width="34%"><font SIZE="2">June 30, 2003</font></td>
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    <td width="33%"></td>
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    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">/s/ James K. Peterson<br>
    James K. Peterson</font><u><p></u>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">Director</font></td>
    <td width="34%"><font SIZE="2">June 16, 2003</font></td>
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    <td width="33%"></td>
    <td width="33%"></td>
    <td width="34%"></td>
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    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">/s/ John Hoyt Stookey<br>
    John Hoyt Stookey</font><u><p></u>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">Director</font></td>
    <td width="34%"><font SIZE="2">June 30, 2003</font></td>
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    <td width="33%"></td>
    <td width="33%"></td>
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    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">/s/ John S. Norman<br>
    John S. Norman</font><u><p></u>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">Controller</font></td>
    <td width="34%"><font SIZE="2">June 30, 2003</font></td>
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    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">/s/ Luis E. Leon<br>
    Luis E. Leon</font></td>
    <td width="33%"><font SIZE="2">Chief Financial<br>
    Officer</font></td>
    <td width="34%"><font SIZE="2">June 30, 2003</font></td>
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Form S-8
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2003
Registration No. 333-__________
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
___________________
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
___________________
GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Colorado
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
84-1208699
(IRS Employer
Identification Number)
4455 Table Mountain Drive
Golden, Colorado 80403
(303) 271-7000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of Registrant's principal executive offices)
Graphic Packaging Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan(s))
___________________
Jill B.W. Sisson, Esq.
General Counsel
Graphic Packaging International Corporation
4455 Table Mountain Drive
Golden, Colorado 80403
(303) 271-7000
(Name, address, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for
service)
___________________
Copy to:
W. Dean Salter, Esq.
Holme Roberts & Owen LLP
1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 4100
Denver, Colorado 80203
(303) 861-7000
___________________
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities to be Registered
Maximum
Amount to be Registered(1)
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share (2)
Proposed
Maximum Aggregate Offering Price
Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock, $.01 par
    value
5,000,000 shares
$4.745
$23,725,000
$1,919.35
This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares
    of Common Stock which become issuable by reason of any stock dividend, stock dividend,
    stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the receipt of
    consideration which results in an increase in the number of the Registrant's
    outstanding shares of Common Stock.
Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the
    registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The
    above calculation is based on the average of the high and low sale prices of the Common
    Stock reported on the New York Stock Exchange on June 25, 2003.
Form S-8 Pursuant to General Instruction E
This Form S-8 is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8. The Form S-8 filed
with the Commission on December 17, 1992, by Graphic Packaging International Corporation
(the "Registrant"), File Number 33-55894, and the Form S-8 filed with the
Commission on August 31, 1998, File Number 333-09390 are hereby incorporated by reference
into this Form S-8.
The Registrant hereby registers the issuance of an additional 5,000,000
shares of the Registrant's Common Stock.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference in this Registration
Statement the following documents:
(a) The Registrant's
Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002
;
(b) The Registrant's
Definitive
Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A dated March 31, 2003
;
(c) The Registrant's
Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2003
;
(d) The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the
Commission on
February
19, 2003
,
March
25, 2003
(as amended on
March
31, 2003
),
March
28, 2003
,
April
16, 2003
and
May
5, 2003
;
(e) The
Registration
Statement on Form S-4 filed with the Commission by Riverwood Holding, Inc. on May 2, 2003
,
File No. 333-104928 (as amended on
June
13, 2003
); and
(f) The description of Common Stock of the Registrant contained in the
Registrant's registration statement on Form 10, as amended, File No. 001-14060.
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing of
a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or
which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated
by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents unless all or a portion of such documents are deemed not to be
filed.
ITEM 8.   EXHIBITS
Exhibit No.
Description
5.1
Opinion of Holme Roberts &
    Owen LLP
10.1
Graphic
    Packaging Equity Incentive Plan, as amended
. (Incorporated by reference to Form 10-K
    filed on March 23, 2001)
23.1
Consent of
    PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
23.2
Consent of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (included in
    Exhibit 5.1)
24.1
Powers of Attorney (included in the
    signature pages)
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS
(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
    a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
        Securities Act;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
        effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
        thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
        information set forth in the Registration Statement; and
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
        distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change
        to such information in the Registration Statement;
Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
    if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
    paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to Section 13
    or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the
    Registration Statement;
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
    Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
    registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of
    such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;
    and
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
    any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
    offering.
(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, executive officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6 above, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with
the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel
the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City and County
of Denver, State of Colorado, on this 30
th
day of June, 2003.
GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By:
/s/ Jeffrey H. Coors
Name: Jeffrey H. Coors
Title: Chairman and President
We, the undersigned officers and directors of Graphic Packaging
International Corporation hereby severally constitute and appoint Jill B.W. Sisson and
Jeffrey H. Coors, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys, with full power
to them and each of them singly, to sign for us in our names in the capacities indicated
below, all pre-effective and post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement and
any abbreviated Registration Statement in connection with this Registration Statement,
including but not limited to any Registration Statement filed to register additional
Common Stock which may be acquired pursuant to the Graphic Packaging Equity Incentive
Plan; and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission; and to sign all documents in
connection with the qualification and sale of the Common Stock with Blue Sky authorities
and with the New York Stock Exchange; granting unto said attorneys-in-fact full power and
authority to perform any other act on behalf of the undersigned required to be done in the
premises, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, this Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated:
NAME
TITLE
DATE
/s/ Jeffrey H. Coors
Jeffrey H. Coors
Chairman and Principal Executive Officer
June 30, 2003
/s/ William K. Coors
William K. Coors
Director
June 30, 2003
/s/ John D. Beckett
John D. Beckett
Director
June 18, 2003
/s/ Harold R. Logan, Jr.
Harold R. Logan, Jr.
Director
June 30, 2003
/s/ James K. Peterson
James K. Peterson
Director
June 16, 2003
/s/ John Hoyt Stookey
John Hoyt Stookey
Director
June 30, 2003
/s/ John S. Norman
John S. Norman
Controller
June 30, 2003
/s/ Luis E. Leon
Luis E. Leon
Chief Financial
Officer
June 30, 2003