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International Paper Company

Type	Public
Founded	1898
Headquarters	Memphis, Tennessee
Key people	John V. Faraci, CEO & Chairman
Products	Paper & Paper products
Revenue	US$ 22.3 billion (2008)
Net income	US$ 1.17 billion (2008)
Employees	51,500
Website	www.internationalpaper.com

International Paper (NYSE: IP) is an American pulp and paper company, the largest pulp and paper company in the world. It has approximately 51,500 employees. Its global headquarters are currently in Memphis, Tennessee.

[edit] History

International Paper was formed by Hugh J. Chisholm and two associates on January 31, 1898 with the merger of 18 pulp and paper mills in the northeastern United States^[1]. The newly formed company supplied 60 percent of all newsprint in the country. In 1986, it acquired the HammerMill Paper Company, in 1988 the Masonite Corporation, and in 1989 the German paper company Zanders Feinpapiere AG and the French paper manufacturer Aussedat Rey. In 1999, International Paper purchased Union Camp Corporation and in 2000 purchased Champion International Paper. Additionally, International Paper currently owns shares in the Chilean company Copec.

One of the 18 original founding mills of International Paper c. 1908, built in 1888 as the Otis Falls Pulp & Paper Company at Chisholm, Maine

In 2005 and 2006, International Paper undertook significant restructuring, selling over 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km²) of forestland in the U.S., along with its coated paper, kraft paper, wood products, and beverage packaging businesses, as well as subsidiaries Arizona Chemical and New Zealand-based Carter Holt Harvey. The coated paper business (four mills in Maine, Michigan and Minnesota) were sold to Apollo Management and now operate as Verso Paper. The kraft paper business (composed of a kraft paper mill in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina and a dunnage bag plant in Fordyce, Arkansas) was sold to Kapstone Paper and Packaging and operates as Kapstone Kraft Paper^[2]. The beverage packaging business, now called Evergreen Packaging, was purchased by Carter Holt Harvey, following the purchase of CHH by Graeme Hart. International Paper sold the Wood Products division of the company to West Fraser Timber Inc., out of Vancouver, British Columbia. This included 13 sawmills, making West Fraser the second largest producer of lumber in North America, next to Weyerhaeuser Company.

[edit] Products and corporate structure

Pulp and converting paper mill, located in Georgetown, South Carolina.

International Paper is the largest producer of plastic lids and paper cups, manufacturing for the fast-food giants McDonald's, Wendy's, Subway and coffee giant Starbucks. The Wood Products division of International Paper was sold in 2007 to West Fraser Timberland Inc., a company headquartered in Vancouver. The company currently produces printer and copier paper, envelopes, corrugated packaging and shipping containers, consumer packaging for cosmetics, home entertainment and other retail markets, and food service packaging. It also owns Xpedx, a large North American distribution and logistics company.

International Paper is a former Dow Jones Industrial Average component, listed in the index from July 3, 1956 to April 7, 2004. It was one of three components to be dropped in the 2004 change, together with AT&T and Eastman Kodak.

Beginning February 1, 2007 the sale of the beverage packaging division was completed as New Zealand billionaire Graham Hart won the bid with nearly an 800 million dollar purchase. The division now operates under the Evergreen label.

On Monday March 17, International Paper, announced it is buying the containerboard unit of Weyerhaeuser Co. for $6 billion in cash.

In October 2007, International Paper formed a joint venture with Ilim Holding, Ilim Group, the alliance in the Russian forest sector.

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Factory in Kwidzyn, Poland, at night

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Company website
• "A Short History of International Paper: Generations of Pride" (Forest History Today, 1998)
• Inventory of the Champion International Corporation Image Collection, 1950 - 1979 in the Forest History Society Library and Archives, Durham, NC
• Yahoo profile

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