Tag: Georgia-Pacific
GP plans to lay-off 1,100 workers
4 October 2005 – Atlanta (GA): Georgia-Pacific (GP) has announced plans to cut 850 North American and 250 European jobs, as part of an initiative aimed at improving its operational efficiencies and reducing operational...
GP reveals repatriation bid
3 October 2005 – Atlanta (GA): Georgia-Pacific (GP) has revealed it planned to repatriate $709 million in foreign earnings by the end of the year, and had already netted $200 million of its target...
Helping hands
Part and parcel of being a journalist, especially when you are starting out, is the dreaded 'death-knock'. This is the nasty little moniker given to that most heinous of reporting jobs - encroaching on...
OP supports hurricane relief
As New Orleans weighs up the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, OP giants have flocked en masse to donate funds to those in need. Donations from Office Depot have topped $18 million, Xerox has...
Paperloop congratulates Correll
18 October 2005 – Atlanta (GA): Georgia-Pacific's (GP) chairman and CEO, Pete Correll, has been named 2005 CEO of the Year by paper industry publisher Paperloop. Correll was presented with the award yesterday, via...
Q3 profit slump at GP
28 October 2005 – Atlanta (GA): Georgia-Pacific (GP) has seen its Q3 profit plummet 40 per cent as rising costs and lower prices hurt its bottom line. Net income dropped to $145 million, or...
Damage control
The catastrophic events in the Gulf states at the end of August will leave an indelible impression on the American psyche for generations to come. Lives and livelihoods were among the many casualties as...
ActionEmco, Georgia-Pacific and Xerox increase hurricane relief
5 September 2005 – New Orleans (LA): ActionEmco, Georgia-Pacific and Xerox are the latest OP companies to join the relief effort to provide support for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Xerox has pledged more than...
Counting the cost of Katrina
The OP industry is still weighing up the devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina, some ten days after it first struck. The impact has been shattering In the immediate aftermath of the storm, Wal-Mart closed...
New sales VP for BRW Paper
26 July 2005 – New York (NY): Chuck Vickers has been named VP of sales at Gould Paper subsidiary BRW Paper. Vickers has most recently served as director of merchant channel sales at Georgia-Pacific.
SPR vendor awards
SP Richards announced the results of it Vendor of the Year Awards at the Advantage Business Conference, held in San Francisco from 21 to 25 July. Acco won in the office supplies category, Hewlett-Packard...
