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  Boise Cascade Office Products
The parent company of Boise Cascade Office Products is the Boise Cascade Corporation, a major international distributor of office products (comprising 46% of total annual sales) and building materials (30%) and an integrated manufacturer and distributor of paper and paper products (24%).
The name Boise (pronounced Boy-zee) originates from the American headquarters situated in Boise, Idaho, whilst the word Cascade was derived from the hillside tree plantation owned by Boise known as the 'cascade of trees'.
Boise draws strength from a series of global supply partnerships with manufacturers of internationally recognised brands that enable the company to reliably deliver the highest quality office supplies and computer peripherals at the lowest prices.
www.boise.com.au /corp/ab_comp.html   (363 words)

  
 Boise Cascade News
Boise Cascade is closing its veneer mill in Independence, a move that will affect 29 workers.
Boise Building Materials Distribution, a division of Boise Cascade, LLC, announced today that it is building a new distribution center in Milton, Florida, near Pensacola.
Boise Cascade has announced that it is temporarily curtailing operations at its sawmill in La Grande because of falling lumber prices.
www.topix.net /com/bcc   (607 words)

  
 global-boise
Boise Payette and Cascade Lumber of Yakima, Washington were merged in 1957 into Boise Cascade.
Boise Cascade, Potlatch, and Weyerhaeuser were interlocked from the time of their incorporation by Weyerhaeuser and associates in the early 1900s until the 1980s.
The public relations firm Burson Marsteller, contracted by Boise Cascade, tried to distort the findings of a technical study done by the department of forestry at the Universidad de Concepcion, but two days later the university foresters revealed the manipulation of their technical report, and declared that the project is unsustainable.
www.endgame.org /global-boise.html   (1565 words)

  
 Boise Cascade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth biggest pulp and paper company in the world.
Boise Cascade Corporation was established in 1957 as the result of the merger between Boise Payette Lumber Company of Boise and the Cascade Lumber Company of Yakima, Washington.
Boise Cascade is headquartered in downtown Boise, Idaho.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boise_Cascade   (238 words)

  
 02/14/01 -- Boise Cascade closes its last 2 Idaho mills   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Boise Cascade Corp. announced Tuesday it is closing its sawmill in Cascade and its plywood and lumber operations in Emmett permanently, with company officials blaming the timber policies of the Clinton administration and lawsuits by environmental groups.
Boise Cascade chief executive officer George Harad said the company will still have a major presence in Idaho, with corrugated container plants in Nampa and Burley, an office-products distribution center, trucking operations and the firm's corporate headquarters in Boise.
Boise Cascade officials laid the blame directly on federal policies limiting the amount of timber available for harvest in the national forests and on environmental groups which have challenged timber sales in federal court.
forests.org /archive/america/idstbccl.htm   (1258 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Boise Cascade Corp. selling paper, timberland assets for $3.2 billion
Boise Cascade will change its name to OfficeMax, acquiring the name of the office products seller it bought a year ago for $1.2 billion in cash and stock.
Boise said it will realize about $3.1 billion to $3.2 billion in cash proceeds from the deal, after a $175 million reinvestment in Boise Cascade LLC and spending between $250 million to $300 million in outstanding debt to reduce debt in the new OfficeMax.
Boise Cascade stock rose $2, or 6 percent, to $35.05 a share during morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20040726-0812-boisecascade.html   (291 words)

  
 CorpWatch : USA: Boise Cascade Attacks Environmental Group
Since the RAN folks have been targeting Boise Cascade to get the company to stop logging in old-growth forests, this may seem to be a case of turnabout-is-fair-play.
Boise Cascade is working with two industry-supported front groups, trying to get the IRS to cancel Rainforest's tax-exempt status and to pressure its funders to cut off the group's money.
Boise Cascade has written directly to foundations and other groups that support RAN, claiming, "Reckless, unlawful and untruthful attacks," "false and defamatory statements," "harassment and intimidation" (especially a mean and vicious campaign of Christmas-wish letters from children to Boise's CEO asking him to stop logging old-growth forests).
corpwatch.org /article.php?id=56   (796 words)

  
 Boise Cascade and Old Growth Logging by Ken Dey
This appears at a time when Boise Cascade is re-branding itself as just "Boise" with an all new logo and new spin to their operations (check out www.bc.com for the details).
Harad said Boise Cascade would be willing to sit down and try to come to a compromise with the Rainforest Action Network if the group would admit it has been spreading false allegations about the company.
Harad said Boise Cascade still believes the harvesting of old-growth timber can be beneficial to a forest's health, but he admitted that it was very difficult to explain the importance of such harvesting to the public.
www.rawfoodinfo.com /articles/art_boiselogging.html   (984 words)

  
 Boise Cascade: Sun Keeps Office Products Flowing
Boise is also planning a Java technology based portal architecture whereby employees and customers can access the DWBI system along with other information important to them, such as human resources data.
Boise recently deployed four Sun Fire servers, which are meeting the high expectations for performance, reliability, and service that made Sun once again the company' s choice for server platforms.
Boise's One Boise business strategy and system have been so successful in personalizing the customer experience that it received the first Gartner CRM Excellence Award.
www.sun.com /solutions/documents/success-stories/RE_boise_BB.xml   (1577 words)

  
 Company Policies - Boise Cascade - Equal Employment Opportunities
Boise Cascade's policy is to conduct its business ethically and in compliance with all applicable laws of the United States and of each jurisdiction where it does, business.
Boise Cascade expects every employee to be committed to and believe in the, importance of compliance.
Boise Cascade is committed to providing a professional work environment that is free from physical, psychological; or verbal harassment based on race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, physical: or mental disability, or veteran status.
www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/code_98/boise.htm   (1135 words)

  
 NOVELL CUSTOMER SHOWCASE: Boise Cascade Office Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Despite its success, Boise Cascade realized it had to make drastic changes to its IT infrastructure in order to operate at peak efficiency and stay competitive in a technology driven world.
Even though NDS may be the cornerstone to Boise Cascade's network administration concerns, it's not the only Novell solution that they count on to support their remotely dispersed call centers and distribution houses.
On the horizon, Boise Cascade is seriously considering the move to NetWare 5.
www.novell.com /success/boise.html   (1102 words)

  
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Boise Cascade, Potlatch, and Weyerhaeuser were interlocked from the time of their incorporation by Weyerhaeuser and associates in the early 1900s until the 1980s, through members of the Bell, Clapp, Jewett, Musser, and Weyerhaeuser families.
Boise Cascade's debt is high compared to the timber industry-wide median debt to capital ratio of 37 percent.
Boise Cascade was by far the #1 purchaser of U.S. National Forest timber during the last decade (1991-2000).
www.endgame.org /boise.html   (3063 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Boise Cascade is selling off timber
BOISEBoise Cascade Corp. announced Monday it has agreed to sell its paper and timber assets for $3.7 billion to focus on worldwide distribution of office products.
Boise Cascade will change its name to OfficeMax, acquiring the name of the Cleveland-based office products seller it bought last year for $1.2 billion in cash and stock.
Boise Cascade officials said the company has completed nearly $12 billion in management buyout transactions over the past 10 years.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595079934,00.html   (704 words)

  
 Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade's Office Papers keep you running, whatever the equipment.
That's why Boise Cascade continues to offer one of the broadest lines of business grade papers you can find, whether it's paper for your fax machines or for printers and copiers of all types.
Boise Cascade offers an amazing array of printing grades created and refined for superior imaging and problem-free runnability, even for projects going from digital files via disk directly to press.
www.anchorpaper.com /finepaper/boise1.htm   (460 words)

  
 AlterNet: Boise Cascade Sees the Light
On Wednesday Sept. 3, Boise Cascade, the number one logger on U.S. public lands in the 1990s, released a landmark policy agreeing to halt its logging of endangered and old growth forests in the U.S. and abroad.
Boise Cascade's decision marks an enormous shift in corporate environmental policy -- especially in the logging industry -- and sets a precedent for all industries.
Though clear acknowledgement is owed to Boise Cascade for a forward step, it is the commitment and strategy of these organizations that deserve the recognition.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=16706   (617 words)

  
 Boise Cascade Jobs: Vault Jobs & Employment Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Boise Cascade has created an "open" corporate environment in which management "listens to employee input and takes it seriously." Employees say that the company "takes pains" to care for its employees even during the regular "down cycles" of the paper and timber industry.
Boise Cascade is not alone in this - the whole industry is in the same boat."......
Boise Cascade employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on jobs and employment at specific employers.
www.vault.com /jobs-company/Boise-Cascade.html   (354 words)

  
 CIBER Case Study: Boise Cascade | ciber.com
Boise Cascade is a major producer and distributor of pulp and paper, one of the world's premiere business-to-business distributors of office products, and a major manufacturer and distributor of building products.
Boise Cascade began searching for a replacement system in 1995, and after numerous interviews and thorough analysis of existing business processes, selected PeopleSoft as the vendor of choice.
Boise Cascade quickly identified project and change management teams for the implementation, and established an application process to select the key project team members.
ciber.com /ciber_overview/stories/search_results_single.cfm?id=boise   (820 words)

  
 Cascade, Idaho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cascade is a city in Valley County, Idaho, United States.
Cascade is on the southeast shore of Lake Cascade (Cascade Reservoir), formed by the Cascade Dam, which was completed in 1948.
The city was the home of a Boise Cascade sawmill which closed in 2001.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cascade,_Idaho   (483 words)

  
 Handheld Systems Field Computers - Boise Cascade
A tangle of brush and tall trees greets the Boise Cascade forestry crew as they prepare to survey the surrounding area.
Boise Cascade, which manages over half a million acres of timberlands in Louisiana, embraced the technology for the sake of increased operating efficiency in its forestry department.
By using custom software designed by Handheld Systems and the Norand mobile computer, Boise Cascade is able to enter data quickly and efficiently in an easy-to-use application.
www.handheldsystems.com /news/Archives/Boise_cascade/Boise_cascade.htm   (510 words)

  
 WebWire® | Boise Cascade Second Quarter 2006 Earnings Webcast And Conference Call
BOISE, Idaho — Boise Cascade announced today that it will host a webcast and conference call to discuss second quarter 2006 earnings.
Boise, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, manufactures engineered wood products, plywood, lumber, and particleboard and distributes a broad line of building materials, including wood products manufactured by the company.
Boise also manufactures a wide range of specialty and premium papers, including imaging papers for the office and home and papers for pressure-sensitive applications, as well as printing and converting papers, containerboard and corrugated boxes, newsprint, and market pulp.
www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=16614   (269 words)

  
 Stop Boise Cascade: Switch to a Better Paper Supplier!
Boise Cascade says it doesn't log old-growth wood in the United States.
In addition, Boise was a primary plaintiff and the only logging company in a lawsuit that opposed the US Forest Service's Roadless Policy, a policy which the Bush Administration was also trying to scrap.
Boise Cascade is Brown University's current contractor for office supplies (including paper) and furniture.
www.brown.edu /Students/BEC/boise.html   (542 words)

  
 Boise Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Boise Cascade is a primary plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, and is the only timber company represented in the lawsuit.
Boise Cascade is currently engaged in a smear campaign against Rainforest Action Network (RAN), and is in cohorts with a conservation group called 'Frontiers of Freedom,' trying to undermine the financial base and tax-exempt status of RAN.
Boise Cascade's purchases of timber in Mexico led to the resistance led by now-famous activists Teodoro Cabrera and Rodolfo Montiel, who spent over two years in prison after reaction by wealthy landowners.
www.usu.edu /ecos/boise_cascade_campaign.html   (550 words)

  
 Paper.com sells Boise Cascade papers home and office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Boise is an international distributor of office supplies and paper and an integrated manufacturer and distributor of paper, packaging, and building materials.
Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, the company was established in 1957 by the merger of Boise Payette Lumber Company and Cascade Lumber Company.
Today, Boise employs 24,000 people around the world and ranks 254 in the FORTUNE 500.
www.paper.com /boise.html   (105 words)

  
 Company Policies - Boise Cascade - Summary of the Provisions - Equal Employment Opportunities
Boise Cascade will investigate all reports of suspected violations of the Standards of Business Conduct.
Boise Cascade may conduct periodic reviews to determine compliance with the Standards of Business Conduct: Employees who violate the Standards of Business Conduct will be subject to discipline, including dismissal.
On the recommendation of the General Counsel, Boise Cascade may also report itself to the appropriate authorities as having violated the law because of an employee's actions.
www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/company/usa/boise.htm   (814 words)

  
 Boise Cascade LLC
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 Boise Cascade bids for Canada's Le Groupe Forex - Jul. 28, 1999
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Boise Cascade Corp., one of the largest U.S. forest products companies, Wednesday challenged Louisiana-Pacific Corp.'s buyout offer for the Canadian firm Le Groupe Forex, bidding up to C$31 per share in a deal that would total approximately C$700 million (US$470 million) plus the assumption of Forex debt.
     Forex said in a statement its board of directors determined that the Boise Cascade (BCC) offer was "superior" to the C$26 cash-per-share offer made by Portland, Ore.-based Louisiana-Pacific (LPX) at the end of June.
     Boise Cascade, one of the largest structural panel producers in North America, said it previously has proposed building new OSB capacity in Chile.
money.cnn.com /1999/07/28/companies/boise   (480 words)

  
 CELB - Partners - Boise Cascade
Boise and CI have worked together on successful multi-stakeholder efforts to strengthen and implement the biodiversity conservation provisions of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) Standard.
In 2003, Boise highlighted CI's work as a scientific foundation for the company’s environmental policy, which includes explicit commitments to align the company’s wood production and sourcing practices with natural forest conservation in the biodiversity hotspots and major tropical wilderness areas.
Boise and CI are working together closely on policy and private sector initiatives to combat illegal logging, which threatens protected areas and the survival of endangered species in biologically rich countries, such as Indonesia.
www.conservation.org /xp/CELB/partners/com/boisecascade.xml   (145 words)

  
 Boise Cascade Home Page
Boise Cascade, LLC, was formed in 2004 when Madison Dearborn Partners purchased the paper and wood products manufacturing and building materials distribution businesses from Boise Cascade Corporation, now known as OfficeMax.
Boise manufactures engineered wood products, plywood, lumber, and particleboard and distributes a broad line of building materials.
Boise’s 10,000 employees are committed to making quality products and delivering excellent value to our customers, while operating in a manner that maintains the integrity of the environment.
www.bc.com   (171 words)

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