100 Fourth Avenue North Bayport, Minnesota 55003-1096 U.S.A. Andersen Corporation is the world's largest wood window manufacturer and is believed to control roughly 15 percent of the domestic market. The 90-year-old company manufactures a wide variety of window styles, available in over 1,100 different sizes, at a single 63-acre plant in Bayport, Minnesota, alongside the St. Croix river. Although…
400 Fresno Avenue Stockton, California 95203 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: California Cedar Products Company has been built upon generations of tradition and excellence in building strong customer relationships throughout the world, producing world class quality products, and continually innovating new manufacturing processes, new products, and new services. Based in Stockton, California, the fami…
2701 University Drive, Suite 320 Auburn Mills, Michigan 48236 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: "We are not a manufacturer of paper products, spark plugs, or sports apparel. We are not a bureaucracy and we do not focus on management fads. We have no fat. Our passion for quality and success is shared by each of our 5,000 employees at all levels of the company. Champion is a leader in manufactured housi…
One Champion Plaza Stamford, Connecticut 06921 U.S.A. Champion International Corporation is a leading U.S. maker of paper products, specializing in paper used for business correspondence, commercial printing, publications, and newspapers. Champion also manufactures pulp, beverage containers, plywood, lumber, and studs. The company, one of the largest private landowners in the United States, owns …
5000 Clayton Road Maryville, Tennessee 37804 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Create and market high value products and services for the benefit of Clayton stakeholders: customers, shareholders, team members. Clayton Homes Incorporated is a leading retailer of manufactured homes in the United States. Based on a unique, vertically integrated business model, the company builds and sells manufactured ho…
222 S.W. Columbia Street, Suite 1575 Portland Oregon 97201 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Columbia Forest Products is committed to two basic values: to build a business on quality products and to provide personal attention to customer needs. Columbia Forest Products Inc. is among North America's largest manufacturers of hardwood plywood and hardwood veneer. Through its subsidiary, Columbia Flooring,…
1000 Corporate Grove Drive Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The integrity of Edward Hines Lumber Co. can never be compromised. Honest, fair dealings are essential with our various constituent groups, our customers, our people, our vendors, our communities and our stockholders. Edward Hines Lumber Company is a private company owned by the Hines family and based in the Chi…
3125 Myers Street Riverside California 92503-5527 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Fleetwood will lead the Recreational Vehicle and Manufactured Housing industries in providing quality products, with a passion for customer-driven innovation. We will emphasize training, embrace diversity and provide growth opportunities for our associates and our dealers. We will lead our industries in the application …
9600 SW Barnes Road, #200 Portland Oregon 97225 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our timberlands, mills, marketing department and distribution operations give us unparalleled flexibility within the industry to meet our customers' needs. Hampton Affiliates, Inc. is a vertically integrated lumber company and one of Oregon's top timber firms. It owns more than 155,000 acres of timberland, produces about …
1600 Shawsheen Street Tewksbury, Massachusetts 01876 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Like many longstanding New England firms, the company started business with a simple trade and over the past 176 years has adapted its function to survive in an increasingly complex and demanding world. Holt and Bugbee Company is located some 30 miles north of Boston in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. It is a fifth genera…
P.O. Drawer 4410 Eatonton, Georgia 31024 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Horton Homes. It's more than a name. For over a quarter-century it's become a tradition of quality for homeowners throughout the Southeastern United States and the world. Combining superior construction with energy efficiency and loads of amenities, Horton Homes is a leader in the manufactured housing industry. Located in Eaton…
301 Merritt 7 P.O. Box 5317 Norwalk, Connecticut 06856 U.S.A. Best known for its Chinet brand disposable dinnerware, the Keyes Fibre Company ranks among the United States's top 50 producers of wood products. The company's output focuses on products for food service and retail distribution. The Chinet line includes disposable plates of varying sizes and shapes made from paper pulp, paper napkins, …
530 East Wardlow Road P.O. Box 848 Long Beach, California 90801 U.S.A. Kit Manufacturing Co. designs, manufactures, and sells manufactured housing (mobile homes)--relocatable, factory-built dwellings constructed on wheel undercarriages--and recreational vehicles (RVs) designed as short-period accommodations for vacationers and travelers. The company ranked eighth in sales in 1994 among leading U.…
One Merrick Avenue Westbury, New York 11590-6601 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Lifetime Brands, Inc. continues to grow by utilizing advanced design capabilities to emphasize innovation and quality within its portfolio of premium brands. Lifetime Hoan's in-house design and product development team, composed of 27 professionals, uses advanced training in state-of-the-art design programs to incorpora…
1600 Britannia Road East Mississauga, Ontario L4W 1J2 Canada Company Perspectives: Through a variety of strategic marketing initiatives the company is committed to growing the Masonite brand. Masonite International Corporation is a leading manufacturer of doors and door components, based in Mississauga, Canada. Approximately two-thirds of sales come from interior doors. All told, the company each…
Newell Center 29 East Stephenson Street Freeport, Illinois 61032-0943 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Each and every day, our products touch millions of people where they work, where they live and where they play. Our portfolio of power brands provides a compelling platform for growth that we are leveraging with breakthrough product innovation, high-impact marketing and attention-grabbing presentati…
815 NE Davis Street Portland, Oregon 97232 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are a billion dollar company offering the economies of scale that come from being big. But, in reality, we operate like several dozen small companies, each with their own independent decision makers with the power to solve your problems quickly and efficiently. North Pacific Group, Inc. is committed to being the "Supplier …
2225 South Holden Road P.O. Box 7386 Greensboro, North Carolina 27417-0386 U.S.A. With about six percent of the highly fragmented $9.4 billion (retail) market, Oakwood Homes Corporation is America's largest mobile home dealer and ranks seventh among the leading mobile home manufacturers. Generally regarded as one of the industry's best-managed firms, Oakwood has targeted the middle and upper rank…
15303 Dallas Parkway, Suite 800 Addison, Texas 75001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Under the direction of Lee Posey, who has been in the industry since 1956, management's thrust has been dedicated to assuring that the customer is satisfied with a quality product and that the associates at Palm Harbor Homes feel this is the best job they have ever had. This commitment has worked&mdash the demand fo…
102 Main Street Pella, Iowa 50129 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Pella's mission is to provide the highest quality, highest value window and door products and services to customers in our selected markets at a level of profitability sufficient to encourage risk-taking and to reward employees and stockholders. Pella Corporation is a leading manufacturer of windows and doors, specializing in high-end…
777 Third Avenue New York, New York 10017 U.S.A. Ply Gem Industries Inc. is a leading national manufacturer and distributor of specialty products for the home improvement industry. Its products, which include wood and vinyl windows and doors, vinyl siding and accessories, vacuum cleaner bags, and numerous specialty products, are sold primarily in home stores. Ply Gem is actually an amalgam of sev…
1500 S.W. First Avenue, Suite 200 Portland, Oregon 97201-5830 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Pope & Talbot's strategic focus and corporate structure encompass the complementary businesses of two forest industry groups: wood products and pulp. The Company manufactures softwood lumber and market pulp in the U.S. and Canada. We have continually prospered in the face of cyclical markets since 1849 by p…
1500 S.W. First Avenue Portland, Oregon 97201 U.S.A. Pope and Talbot, Inc., is one of America's oldest and most successful wood-fiber products companies. The firm makes and markets wood pulp, softwood lumber, consumer tissue, and disposable diaper products. Pope and Talbot serves a variety of markets, including the housing industry, newsprint manufacturers, printing and writing paper manufacturer…
P.O. Box 496028 Redding, California 96049 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Sierra Pacific's confidence in the future is solidly rooted in some of the finest timberland in the world. Stretching from near the Oregon border on the Pacific Coast to the Lake Tahoe area of central California, Sierra Pacific lands grow Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, White Fir, Douglas Fir and Cedar. The land includes one of th…
2520 Bypass Road P.O. Box 743 Elkhart, Indiana 46515 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Skyline is committed to producing the best products at the best prices. It has earned a reputation for uncompromising integrity in all of its relationships with communities, suppliers, retailers and with the hundreds of thousands of Americans who live in Skyline-built homes and enjoy Skyline-built RVs. Skyline Corpo…
800 Rene-Levesque Boulevard, Suite 1050 Montreal, Quebec H3B 1X9 Canada Company Perspectives: Tembec's corporate mission is to be a low-cost, profitable integrated forest products company converting forest resources into innovative and competitive quality products for customers while protecting the environment and creating positive long-term social, cultural and economic benefits for the region a…