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Who is Georgia-Pacific?
Georgia-Pacific was established in 1927 as a hardwood lumber wholesaler and today is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products, and chemicals. Through heavy expansion, it acquired/owns the following companies:
| Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company | Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Company |
| Georgia-Pacific Plywood Company | C.D. Johnson Lumber Corporation |
| Coos Bay Lumber Company | Hammond Lumber Company |
| Booth-Kelly Lumber Company | W.M. Ritter Lumber Company |
| Crossett Lumber Company | Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Company |
| Hopper Paper Division | Vanity Fair Paper Mills |
| St. Croix Paper Company | Fordyce Lumber Company |
| Bestwall Gypsum Company | National Polychemicals, Inc. |
| Kalamazoo Paper Company | Lousiana-Pacific Corporation |
| Exchange Oil & Gas Corporation | Hudson Pulp & Paper Corporation |
| Holly Hill Lumber Company | Erving Distributor Products Company |
| Brunswick Pulp & Paper Company | American Forest Products Company |
| Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation | The Timber Company |
| CeCorr | Wisconsin Tissue |
| Unisource Worldwide | Fordyce Lumber |
| Fort James Corporation |
Which brands does Georgia-Pacific manufacture?
Bath Tissue
• Angel Soft
• Quilter Northern
• Quilted Northern Ultra Plush
• Soft n’ Gentle
Building/Remodeling
• Blue Ribbon
• Clutter Cutter
• DensArmor Plus
• DensGlass Silver
• DensShield
• DryPly
• GP Lam
• Husboard
• Jubilee
• Lionite
• Mount Vernon
• Ply-Bead
• Plytanium
• Southern Gold
• Sta-Strait
• Styleline
• Thermostat
• ToughRock
• Wood | Beam
• Dixie
• Insulair
• PerfecTouch
• Ultra
• Vanity Fair
Office/Paper Products
• Advantage
• Image Plush
• Spectrum
Napkins
• Mardi Gras
• Vanity Fair
• Zee
Paper Towels
• Bounty
• Mardi Gras
• Sparkle
• Zee
| 1927 | The Georgia Hardwood Lumber was founded in Augusta, Georgia by Owen R. Cheatham. |
| 1941-1945 | The company was awarded the Army-Navy “E” for being the most outstanding lumber supplier to the U.S. Armed Forces. |
| 1948-1951 | Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company changes its name to Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Company, and then to Georgia-Pacific Plywood Company. |
| 1956 | Georgia-Pacific Plywood acquires the Coos Bay Lumber Company in northern California, and changes their name again to Georgia-Pacific Corporation. |
| 1959-1967 | GPC acquires the Booth-Kelly Company, W.M. Ritter Lumber, Crossett Lumber, Puget Sound Pulp & Timber, Hopper Paper Division, Vanity Fair Paper Mills, St. Croix Paper, Fordyce Lumber, National Polychemicals, Inc., Bestwall Gypsum Co., and Kalamazoo Paper Company. |
| 1975-1981 | GPC acquires the Exchange Oil & Gas Company, Hudson Pulp & Paper, and the Holly Hill Lumber Company. |
| 1986 | Angel Soft toilet paper entered the toilet paper market! |
| 1987-1988 | GPC acquires the Erving Distributor Products Company, Brunswick Pulp & Paper Company, and the American Forest Products Company. |
| 1988 | A merger was announced between Georgia-Pacific Corporation and the Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation. |
| 1998 | The Georgia-Pacific Corp. reaches its 70-year mark! The Timber Company is created as a separate operating group for their timber business. |
| 2000 | Georgia-Pacific acquires the Fort James Corporation, making them the leading global producer of tissue products. |
| 2004 | After Florida was battered by 4 successive hurricanes, Georgia-Pacific donated truckloads upon truckloads of bath tissue, paper towels, and disposable cups plates, and cutlery to Floridians |
| 2005 | Georgia-Pacific was acquired by Koch Industries in a $21 billion transaction, and became a privately held, wholly owned subsidiary, continuing to operate from its Atlanta headquarters. |
Georgia-Pacific produces all of their commercial tissue and towel products with at least 35% of recycled fiber. Some of their industrial products, like gypsum wallboard, are entirely made of recycled fiber, as well.
Have any other Georgia-Pacific or Toilet Paper questions? Shoot us an email to CS@ToiletPaperWorld.com. We’ll be happy to answer your questions & then post the answers on the site!
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