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Company is buying Brown for $100 million

Why do we make life so difficult?  If you think about it, mostly our own inventions complicate our lives. Life is simple.  Why isn’t yours?  

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Overwhelmingly, respondents think it is superior people...

Travis asks, "What falls into one of these three categories?"

International Forest Products Limited will ask shareholders at its May 6 Annual General Meeting to vote on a proposal to change the company name to Interfor Corporation from International Forest Products Limited

Non-Executive Chairman Thomas J. Howatt will retire from board; Michael C. Burandt Appointed Interim CEO and will become chairman

Hood Packaging Corp. is the buyer

One of the interesting facts about technology is that hardware is always ahead of the software behind it...

A third production shift will be added and 50 new employees will be hired

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Being competitive starts with the people who work for your firm.  A close second is the culture of your company.  Let’s talk about both of these.

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Most readers who responded say most of the general public is clueless about the industry, or don't care anything about pulp and paper manufacturing.

Company says approximately 50 new jobs will be created

Travis asks, "What are the measures of these rectangles?"

Corporations are not bad things. In fact, by and large, they are very good things. But they also have their shortcomings. Many of those shortcomings are so apparent in areas of middle management - where too much authority in the hands of an ignoramus can be a bad thing and a detriment to the company's overall well-being.

PCA will convert the No. 3 newsprint machine at DeRidder to containerboard, producing lightweight linerboard and medium, and exit the newsprint business

Donnelley officials say the addition of Esselte's portfolio will create a more competitive and efficient office products supplier capable of supplying enhanced offerings across the customer base

Greenfield plant is expected to have generated 1,000 direct or indirect jobs by 2015

Total consideration paid by Interfor for Tolleson amounted to US$129.9 million in cash and retained liabilities plus 3.68 million of the Company's Class A Subordinate Voting Shares

What if we can say the luxury goods market is completely bookended by paper products?  What if tissue and newsprint are the Alpha and Omega of luxury goods?  This is a story we should be running with—the luxury goods for everyone, regardless of income, are those made by our wonderful pulp and paper industry.

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Recently, the Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, threw a grenade into the national political debate by declaring that too many of Australia's forests are “locked up” and vowed to set up a new advisory council to support the timber industry.