Southgate Tower East 40 City Road South Melbourne Victoria, 3205 Australia Headquartered in Australia, Amcor Limited manufactures and sells a diverse assortment of paper, plastic, and metal packaging materials. Amcor products are used in the creation of paper wrappings, corrugated and solid fiber containers, rigid plastic containers, plastic bags and tubes, and cans for processed foods. Amcor als…
679 Victoria Street Abbotsford Victoria 3067 Australia Company Perspectives Amcor's mission is to generate sustainable shareholder value by: becoming the premier packaging solutions provider; creating superior customer service relationships and values; and encouraging and rewarding employees to achieve the highest standard of performance. Headquartered in Australia, Amcor Ltd. operates as an inte…
Rua Lauro Müller, 116, 40° andar 22299-900 Rio de Janeiro Brazil Company Perspectives: Growth Strategy: Establish a stronger presence in the world's pulp market, through acquisition of existing pulp operations and/or capacity expansion, both at the right time and cost. Brazil-based Aracruz Celulose S.A. is the world's leading producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp for the paper industry and one o…
150 North Orange Grove Boulevard Pasadena, California 91103 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Vision for Global Leadership: We are committed to being the world leader in products, services and solutions that enable and transform the way consumers and businesses gather, distribute and communicate information. With innovative products and services, well-known brands and leading-edge technologies, we…
200 West Front Street P.O. Box 149 Peshtigo, Wisconsin 54157 U.S.A. Badger Paper Mills, Inc. is a leading producer of plain, printed, and waxed papers for the flexible packaging industry. Badger makes about two-thirds of the government butter wrap used in the United States and makes the specialty wrapping paper for many well-known products, including Tootsie Rolls, Dentyne gum, Nestle's candies, …
12050 South Lone Peak Parkway Draper, Utah 84020 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Ballard Medical Products is a manufacturer and marketer of specialized medical products. Our strategy for maintaining the company's growth continues to focus on the following four objectives: Developing innovative products through internal research and development and through acquisitions; maintaining the highest qualit…
Two Gateway Boulevard East Granby, Connecticut 06026 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Sound principles of honesty and industriousness, and consideration for others, will always remain the true and only formula for success in the long term. These principles are our legacy from those who have gone before us, and we must try to insure that those to come will inherit them. The Beckett Paper Company today…
1001 Tillman Street Memphis, Tennessee 38108-0407 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Buckeye Technologies has been a leading manufacturer and worldwide marketer of value-added cellulose products for more than 80 years. The company uses its expertise in polymer chemistry and its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities to develop and produce innovative and proprietary products for customers in a broad …
James Center II 1021 East Cary Street P.O. Box 2350 Richmond, Virginia 23218-2350 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Creating opportunity. Embracing innovation. Excelling in customer service. These were the driving values of the entrepreneurs who founded Chesapeake Corporation in October 1918, and have been part of our foundation for 80 years. These values continue to drive us in defining our future. O…
14 Mars Road Lane Cove 2066 Australia Company Perspectives With Cochlear, you can count on three things: technical product innovation, world-class design, and lifelong commitment. Our 60,000 Nucleus recipients and thousands of hearing and educational professionals make up the largest cochlear implant community in the world. Our community is continually supported by our guiding principles. Cochlea…
30 South St. Dalton, Massachusetts 01226 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Quality has been a consistent and principal objective throughout the history of this manufacturer of fine papers. Relations with employees, customers and suppliers have stressed this element above all others. This visible legacy is worthy of continuing pursuit by future generations. Crane & Co., Inc. is a family-owned papermake…
One Crown Way Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19154-4599 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We owe our success to a legacy of leadership and invention that began in 1892 when our founder, William Painter, invented a better way to package soft drinks and beer. Painter's vision revolutionized the bottling industry. His ingenuity, and the leadership of those who came after him, helped to build Crown Cork & Sea…
300 Lakeside Drive Oakland, California 94612-3592 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Crown Vantage's strategic focus is to develop, manufacture and market printing, publishing and specialty packaging and converting papers. The company takes pride in the development of committed, long-term relationships with customers as well as in its innovative products and service. Its strategy is to differentiate it…
395 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West Montreal, Quebec H3A 1L6 Canada Domtar is one of Canada's leading suppliers of pulp and paper products. With a network of facilities across the country, Domtar is involved in every aspect of the pulp and paper business, from logging to pulp production and from manufacturing to selling fine papers and newsprint. Domtar has become a major manufacturer of constructi…
4-16 Artillery Row London SW1P 1RZ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: DS Smith Plc is an international Group focused on two major activities--Packaging and Office Products. We hold strong positions in many of the markets in which we operate: the leading UK producer of recycled paper board; the largest UK collector and merchant of recovered paper; a leading manufacturer of corrugated packaging i…
Siemensstrasse 64 D-70469 Stuttgart Germany Company Perspectives: Esselte is committed to meeting the needs of the customer by delivering quality products that bring innovation, efficiency, and style to the way people work in the office and at home. Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co. KG is Germany's leading manufacturer of premium binders and other products for filing and archiving documents. The Leitz Ord…
71 Clinton Road Garden City, New York 11530 U.S.A. Esselte Pendaflex Corporation is one of the oldest American manufacturers of office filing supplies and a North American market leader. The company makes general filing products and filing supplies, labeling systems and supplies, report covers and portfolios, bound books, binders and loose-leaf supplies, plastic office accessories, and document b…
75 Chestnut Ridge Road Montvale, New Jersey 07645 U.S.A. Federal Paper Board Company, Inc., is a leading producer of recycled and bleached paperboard, which is used to make packaging, brochure covers, sports cards, and paper cups. It also produces market pulp, uncoated free sheet paper, lumber, folding cartons, and paper and plastic cups. The market for its products is primarily domestic, althoug…
P.O. Box 1911 Danbury, Connecticut 06813-1911 U.S.A. First Brands is a leading consumer products company with operations based on a number of major brands: STP oil, Glad and Glad-Lock plastic wrap and bags, Prestone antifreeze, Simoniz car waxes, polishes, and cleaners, and Scoop Away and Ever Clean cat litter products. A product of a leveraged buy-out, the company was organized in 1986. Unlike m…
1120 Route 73 Mount Laurel, New Jersey 08054 U.S.A. The Fleer Corporation holds a special position in the history and development of two quintessentially American activities: bubble gum and trading cards. After nearly seventy years, Fleer continues to manufacture more than four million pieces of its Dubble Bubble--the original bubble gum--each day. As one of the top three trading card companies, …
500 Lake Cook Rd. Suite 400 Deerfield, Illinois 60015-5269 U.S.A. Gaylord Container Corporation is a major national manufacturer and distributor of corrugated containers, containerboard, unbleached kraft paper, multiwall bags, grocery bags and sacks, and specialty chemicals. By the 1990s the company served more than 3,000 customers through a network of three paper mills, 24 converting plants, one…
133 Peachtree Street, Northeast Atlanta, Georgia 30303-5605 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Georgia-Pacific Mission: Through excellence in all we do, the resourceful people of Georgia-Pacific grow our value and create wealth for our investors by providing value-added forest products that enable our customers and consumers to enhance where they live, work, and play. Georgia-Pacific Vision: Georgia-Pa…
807 East Main Street P.O. Box 2332 Durham, North Carolina 27702 U.S.A. Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. has been associated with the packaging of tobacco products since its inception in 1887 and remains one of the largest manufacturers of cigarette packs in the United States. It was also engaged in other forms of consumer-product printing and packaging in the 1990s, when its goods could be found in …
35129 Curtis Boulevard Eastlake, Ohio 44095-4001 U.S.A. Gould Electronics, Inc., is a designer and manufacturer of materials and components for use in the electrical and electronics markets. Headquartered in Eastlake, Ohio, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Energy Corporation, a diverse corporation with interests in petroleum, specialty metals, electronics, biotechnology, and phar…
Strandvägen 1 P.O. Box 5407 SE-114 84 Stockholm Sweden Company Perspectives: Holmen's main product areas are newsprint and magazine paper for newspapers, magazines, directories and advertising; paperboard for consumer packaging and graphical applications. In both these areas Holmen has a strong position on the market, which it intends to develop. Holmen shall grow at a faster rate than the marke…
6-11, Nihonbashi Hongoku-cho 4-chome Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103 Japan Japan Pulp and Paper Company Limited (JP&P) is the largest Japanese pulp- and paper-trading company. It is 40%-owned by paper manufacturers and acts as a trading organization to procure raw materials and distribute finished products. When consignment sales carried out for clients are added to its own operations, it is the largest pulp-…
Beech Hill Clonskeagh Dublin 4 Ireland Company Perspectives: Our objective is to sell to our customers products that conform to their requirements, on time, at a competitive price. We will do this by providing the encouragement and means for continuous improvement in our process, technology, products and services. In this endeavour, we are committed to working with the highest standards of ethics…
One Johnson & Johnson Plaza New Brunswick, New Jersey 08933-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Credo: We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nur ses and patients, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our p roducts and services. In meeting their needs everything we do must be of high quality. Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is one of the largest healthcare firm s in the world a…
14-10, Nihonbashi Kayabacho 1-chome Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-8210 Japan Company Perspectives Our mission is "to strive for the wholehearted satisfaction and enrichment of the lives of people globally" through the Company's core domains of cleanliness, beauty, health and chemicals. Fully committed to this mission, all members of the Kao Group work together with passion to provide products and brands of e…
3285 Bedford Ch. Montreal, Quebec H3S 1G5 Canada A leading manufacturer of recycled newsprint and other paper products, Kruger Inc. is the largest, privately owned forest products company in Canada. During the mid-1990s, Kruger produced 1.8 million metric tons of paper products per year. The company's two largest paper mills were located in Bromptonville and Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. Aside from the…
2100 Elm St. SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission: To be in business forever. At Mackay, quality is the goal to which everyone contributes, and customer satisfaction is the reward for which everyone strives. From pre-press operations to shipping, the skills of Mackay professionals strengthen each link in the chain. Our size and depth of experience give us the abili…
1 High Ridge Park Stamford, Connecticut 06905 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: MeadWestvaco's innovation, customer relationships and strength throug hout the packaging value chain drives our leadership. From excellence in engineering unique paperboards to innovative uses of multiple mat erials to world-class expertise in package design, converting and sys tems, we deliver integrated packaging solutio…
5425 Hollister Avenue Santa Barbara, California 93111 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mentor Corporation develops high-quality, technically advanced products to solve specific medical problems. Mentor products improve quality of life for patients, simplify medical or surgical procedures, and reduce the costs of medical care. Mentor's product lines include surgically implantable devices, surgical and…
14900 Interurban Avenue South, Suite 282 Seattle, Washington 98168 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mercer International Inc. owns and operates market pulp and paper businesses in the southern German states of Saxony and Thuringia in the former East Germany. Mercer International Inc. maintains its legal address in Seattle, Washington, although its CEO, Jimmy S.H. Lee, resides in Zurich, Switzerland, …
3M Center St. Paul, Minnesota 55144-1000 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At 3M, we are committed to satisfying our customers with superior quality and value; providing investors with an attractive return through sustained, high-quality growth; respecting our social and physical environment; and being a company of which employees are proud. The largest manufacturer in Minnesota, the 89th largest U.S.…
117 Antrim Road Bennington, New Hampshire 03442 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Committed to responsible stewardship of the environment, Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. consistently produces premium-quality uncoated papers manufactured according to the unique needs of customers in selected markets. Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. is the oldest continuously operating small paper mill in America. Although rel…
44 Franklin Street P.O. Box 2002 Nashua, New Hampshire 03061-2002 U.S.A. Nashua Corporation in Nashua, New Hampshire, is a medium-sized company that conducts a variety of businesses. Its core enterprises are photofinishing (processing of film), the manufacture and sale of coated products such as thermosensitive paper and adhesive tapes, computer product manufacture (primarily computer disks), and…
29-10 Hunters Point Avenue Long Island City, New York 11101 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At National we have one focus, supplying envelopes to the trade! If it's considered an envelope, we make it. Our assortment includes envelopes from commercial and official regulars to custom designed booklets for special direct mail uses, and everything in between. By specializing in one thing, envelopes, Nat…
1420 Peachtree Street, N.E. Suite 200 Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3002 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: NSI recently completed the first year as a new, smaller, and more focused company. Today, there is more authority, responsibility, and higher accountability for performance at the business unit level. We've reduced corporate headcount, consolidated services where it makes sense, and pooled resources to …
122 Kissel Road Burlington, New Jersey 08016 U.S.A. Paris Corporation is a holding company with, in 1997, two operating companies of its main subsidiary manufacturing business forms, including computer paper and cut-sheet products. Another line, including business cards, greeting cards, and stationery, is targeted to the small-office and home-office user. Paris markets these products, plus softwa…
300 Nyala Farms Road Westport, Connecticut 06880 U.S.A. Playtex Products, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of household and personal care products. Its brand name products include Playtex and Ultimates Silk Glide tampons; Playtex Nurser disposable feeding systems for infants; Cherubs and Smile Tote cups and bottles for babies and toddlers; Playtex Living, Handsaver, and Wearshield h…
Via Tucidide, 56 Torre 6 20121 Milan Italy Company Perspectives: The corporate purpose shall be: a) to perform industrial, commercial and service activities, in Italy and overseas, relative to, instrumental for or connected with the following sectors: paper-making and paper-transformation, including any and all complementary and intermediate production processes; chemicals in general and match-ma…
1 Technology Drive Rogers Connecticut 06263-0188 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Rogers Corporation is a manufacturer of specialty materials for applications in portable communications, communication infrastructure, consumer products, computer and office equipment, ground transportation, and aerospace and defense. Rogers Corporation is a global specialty materials company that maintains its headquart…
W6316 Design Drive Greenville, Wisconsin 54942 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: School Specialty is forging an exciting era in the educational resources market as a family of brands focused on helping educators to help students succeed. School Specialty, Inc., is a publicly traded, direct marketing education company based in Greenville, Wisconsin. It offers more than 80,000 products, essentially anyt…
Kimberly-Clark Corporation 351 Phelps Drive Irving, Texas 75038 U.S.A. Until its acquisition by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Scott Paper Company was a global consumer products company and the world's leading manufacturer of tissue products such as toilet tissue, paper towels, and paper napkins. Scott had an arsenal of well-known brands and dominated the American market for mid-ranged tissue pa…
Park 80 East Saddle Brook, New Jersey 07663-5291 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Sealed Air Advantage is rooted in values that go back to the early days of the company. Although we are flexible enough to change over time by growth, acquisition, global expansion, societal change and new ideas, the core of the culture and philosophy remains constant, and is protected and reinforced by leadership. …
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900 Seattle, Washington 98101 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For as far into the past as anyone can determine, human beings have drawn benefit from natural resources--for shelter and safety; comfort and commerce; recreation and renewal. But people have a unique ability to change their environment--for better or for worse. No natural law ensures htat we do the right things …
Kanavaranta One P.O. Box 309 FIN-00101 Helsinki Finland Company Perspectives: Mission: To promote communication and the well-being of people by turning renewable fiber into paper, packaging, and processed wood products. Stora Enso Oyj, which was formed in late 1998 from the merger of Sweden's Stora Kopparbergs Bergslag AB and Finland's Enso Oyj, is one of the leading global forest products groups…
2355 Crenshaw Blvd., #150 Torrance, California 90501 U.S.A. Sunrise Medical Inc. is the second largest supplier of home health care products in the world, next in sales only to Invacare. The company is the world's leading manufacturer of customized lightweight wheelchairs, and is Invacare's only significant competitor in the market for ultralight sports wheelchairs, designed to be used by disable…
70 Avenue Général-Guisan Case Postale 446 CH-1009 Pully/Lausanne Switzerland Company Perspectives: We commit to making food safe and available, everywhere. We work for and with our customers to provide preferred processing and packaging solutions for food.We apply our commitment to innovation, our understanding of consumer needs, and our relationships with suppliers to deliver these solutions, …
1100 Boulders Parkway Richmond, Virginia 23225 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: "We have set our sights on becoming a world-class company that consistently generates substantial growth in profits and economic value." --Norman A. Scher, president and CEO Tredegar Corporation, based in Richmond, Virginia, is primarily involved, through subsidiaries, in two unrelated businesses: plastic films and alumin…
The Zurich Centre Second Floor 90 Pitts Bay Road Pembroke HM 08 Bermuda Company Perspectives: Our mission: to increase the value of our company and our global portfolio of diversified brands by exceeding customers' expectations and achieving market leadership and operating excellence in every segment of our company. Tyco International Ltd. is a diversified manufacturing and service company, with …
444 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10022 U.S.A. Western Publishing Group, Inc. is the holding company for Western Publishing Co., Inc., the largest creator, publisher, manufacturer, printer, and marketer of children's books in the United States. It is also engaged in printing and in producing and marketing stationery and paper goods. In 1994 it sold other extensive interests, including its gam…
1300 S.W. Fifth Avenue Portland, Oregon 97201 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: One of Willamette's strengths is its ability to make products literally from the ground up, assuring customers of quality and reliability at reasonable prices. Willamette Industries, Inc., headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is a medium-sized, diversified forest-products company. The company owns and operates more than 100 …