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Tysons Corner has more Fortune 500 company headquarters than Washington, D.C. [1]. This is a list of notable companies headquartered in Northern Virginia.The majority of the following companies are located in Fairfax County and Loudoun County the most populous jurisdictions in Northern Virginia, Virginia state, and the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.
In the late 1970s, Boise Cascade changed its business focus from wood products to paper products. In 1979, four executives of the cabinetry division (Bill Brandt, Al Graber, Jeff Holcomb, and Don Mathias) initiated a leveraged buyout. They formed American Woodmark Corporation in 1980 and floated on Nasdaq in 1986 for $15 per share. [4]
Central National-Gottesman Inc. (CNG) is one of the world's largest distributors of pulp, paper, packaging, nonwovens & fibers, tissue, metals and wood products.The company employs over 4,000 staff in more than 150 locations in 48 cities across North America and in 29 countries around the world, including 43 warehouses and 46 retail stores.
The brown paper division of CZ was not in the deal and became Gaylord Container Corporation. Crown Zellerbach had been the target of a hostile takeover by Sir James Goldsmith. [4] [5] James River began producing 100 percent recycled paper products in 1991 at its mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin. [3]
Duro Bag Mfg produces paper bags for many companies in the United States. It was founded in Covington, Kentucky in 1953 by Mr. S. David Shor and was privately owned. Charles Shor , the son of S. David Shor, became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1987 and ran the company until July 1, 2014.
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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]
Unisource was the first national paper distributor in the United States to attain certification from all three major chain-of-custody certification organizations: the Forest Stewardship Council™ (FSC®), [6] the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®), [7] and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).