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Industry | Pulp and paper |
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Predecessor | Fort Howard Paper Company James River Corporation |
Founded | 1997 |
Defunct | 2000 |
Fate | Acquired by Georgia-Pacific |
Successor | Georgia-Pacific |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Michael Riordan, President and COO Miles Marsh, Chairman and CEO |
Total assets | $7.3 billion[1] |
Number of employees | 24,800[2] |
Fort James Corporation was an American pulp and paper company based in Deerfield, Illinois.[3] Its products were sold under a variety of brand names, which included Brawny, Mardi Gras, and Quilted Northern.[4][5]
At the time of its acquisition, Fort James Corporation was the United States' largest manufacturer of commercial tissue.[5]
In 1997, the Fort Howard Paper Company and the James River Corporation merged to form the Fort James Corporation.[1][4] Fort Howard was headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and James River in Richmond, Virginia.
By 1999, Fort James was operating nine of the eleven largest 270-inch (22.5 ft; 6.9 m) wide tissue machines in the world.[1]
In 2000, the Fort James Corporation was acquired by Georgia-Pacific (GP) for $11 billion;[1][4][6][7] GP is based in Atlanta, Georgia.