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Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, [2] and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and related chemicals, and other forest products—largely made from its own timber.
The company became one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet paper, paper-towel dispenser, and other products. [6] It is now a subsidiary of Koch Industries .
After taking time off and traveling in Canada, he returned to Georgia-Pacific and served as President of the company from 1957 until his retirement in 1976. [1] Robert B. Pamplin took Georgia-Pacific through a period of tremendous growth. When he started as President in 1957, annual sales were $121 million and profits were $7.4 million.
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He was elected president and chief operating officer in 1991. From 1993 to 2005 he was the CEO and chairman of the board of Georgia-Pacific. [3] In that role, Correll negotiated the deal with Koch Industries to take Georgia-Pacific private at an enterprise value of $21 billion. [4]
Georgia Pacific, a multi-billion dollar subsidiary of Koch Industries, announced in September it would lay off more than 500 workers who had earned doubled the state’s median income of $35,216 ...
Printpack Inc. was founded in Atlanta by J. Erskine Love Jr., [2] an alumnus of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1956 as a printing company whose original product was cellophane bags. [3] By 1960 Printpack had begun creating in-house graphic designs and branching out of the Southeast to making sales in the Midwest.
Family and consumer sciences began at the University of Georgia in 1918 with the establishment of the Division of Home Economics. It was the 5th college to be established at the University of Georgia. In 1919, Mary E. Creswell became both the first home economics graduate and the first female to graduate from the University of Georgia.