Gaylord Container Corporation

Overview

type	Public
traded as	amex: GCR (AMEX)
predecessors	Gaylord Container, Ltd. (1986) Crown Zellerbach (Gaylord) Container Division (1955–1986) Gaylord Container Corp. (1925–1955)
foundation	1986 (original co. – 1925)
fate	acquired by Temple-Inland
defunct	2002
location	500 Lake Cook Road, Suite 400 Deerfield, Illinois, U.S.
key people	Marvin A. Pomerantz, Warren J. Hayford Anson Goodyear‡R1R‡
industry	Paper, packaging, chemicals
num employees	4,800
products	Kraft paper, corrugated containers, DMSO
revenue	$1.04 billion (2001) $1.17 billion (2000)‡R2R‡
net income	–$27.3 million (loss, 2001) $2.4 million (2000)‡R2R‡

Gaylord Container Corporation (AMEX: GCR) was an American integrated manufacturer of packaging materials, primarily corrugated containers. Operating from 1986 until 2002, most of the company's facilities were originally part of Crown Zellerbach's container division. Based in Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago, Gaylord Container completed its initial public offering in July 1988 and was listed on the American Stock Exchange.[3] After less than 16 years as a company, it was acquired by a competitor, Temple-Inland, in early 2002,[4][5] which was acquired by International Paper a decade later in 2012.[6][7]

Company history

Origins

Gaylord Container was a by-product of the hostile takeover of Crown Zellerbach by Sir James Goldsmith in July 1985,[8][9] which resulted in the break-up of the San Francisco-based forest products corporation in May 1986.[10][11] The more profitable manufacturing assets (fine paper mills) were sold to the James River Corporation of Richmond, Virginia[12][13][14] (which merged with Fort Howard and became Fort James in 1997, then was acquired by Georgia-Pacific in 2000). The less profitable container division (brown paper) of CZ became "Gaylord Container," and after a brief period as a limited partnership, was sold in November 1986 for $260 million to a group of Midwest investors led by Warren Hayford (b. 1929) and Marvin Pomerantz (1930–2008).[15] They headed Mid-America Packaging, a single kraft paper mill in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, acquired from Weyerhaeuser in December 1985 for $28 million. Soon after the acquisition of the former Crown Zellerbach assets, the headquarters of Gaylord Container were moved from One Bush Street in San Francisco to Illinois.[16]

The company was named for a previous company of the same name, which made the eponymous Gaylord container, and was based in St. Louis, Missouri. It was acquired by Crown Zellerbach in 1955,[17][18][19] which renamed its brown paper operations the "Gaylord Container Division." The Gaylord name remained in CZ into the early 1980s,[20] then was reduced to "Container Division" shortly before the hostile takeover.

Facilities

At its initiation in 1986, Gaylord Container had three paper mills (containerboard), located in Antioch, California, Bogalusa, Louisiana, and Baltimore, Ohio, with converting plants in twelve states. In 1937, Gaylord Container Corp. had acquired the Bogalusa-based Great Southern Lumber Company and its Bogalusa Paper Mill.[21] The mill of Mid-America Packaging in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was integrated into Gaylord Container in June 1988. The Ohio mill was sold for $17 million in November 1988, it produced only the less-profitable corrugating medium from recycled pulp.

The Antioch mill in northern California (midway between San Francisco and Sacramento) had used 100% recycle pulp since 1977, and had a gas turbine co-generation facility, installed in 1982. The mill and adjacent converting complex was opened in 1957 by Crown Zellerbach to use pulp from British Columbia to make tissue, toweling, multiwall bags, and linerboard for the northern California market.[22] The pulp was delivered by company ship to the Antioch mill's deep-water dock on the San Joaquin River. Eventually the consumer products were phased out and the mill downsized to a single Fourdrinier paper machine

Acquisition

After less than sixteen years as a company, it was acquired by a competitor, Temple-Inland, in early 2002,[4][5] which was acquired by International Paper a decade later in 2012.[6][7]

Gaylord Container Corporation

Company history

Origins

Facilities

Acquisition

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