Boise Cascade

Boise Cascade Company
Formerly called
Boise Cascade Corporation
Industry Forest products
Founded 1957 (1957), 59 years ago
Headquarters Boise, Idaho, USA
Key people
Tom Corrick
Products Boise Cascade manufactured plywood, engineered wood products, lumber, and particleboard and a broad line of wood products and building materials from leading manufacturers
Website www.bc.com

Boise Cascade Company (NYSE: BCC), which uses the trade name Boise Cascade, is an American manufacturer and distributor of lumber and building materials headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

Boise Cascade Wood Products manufactures plywood, engineered wood products, lumber, and particleboard and supplies a broad line of wood products and building materials through Boise Cascade Building Materials Distribution's 33 distribution locations. Boise Cascade Company is a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BCC.

Boise Cascade Company

Boise Cascade Company, was established in 1957 as Boise Cascade Corporation, a result of the merger between Boise-Payette Lumber Company of Boise and the Cascade Lumber Company of Yakima, Washington.[1][2]

After over-extending itself into non-traditional areas under young CFO William Agee,[3] the company nearly went into liquidation in 1972. A new management team got the company back to basics through the rest of the 1970s.[4]

The Boise Cascade logo, designed in the 1960s, depicts a pine tree inside the containing circle.[5] The company is run by Tom Corrick, formerly Boise Cascade's executive vice president in charge of Wood Products.

The company is not affiliated with the Canadian paper company Cascades.

The pulp and paper assets of Boise Cascade L.L.C. were sold to an investment firm in 2008, then acquired by Packaging Corporation of America in 2013 and became its Boise Paper division.[6] Boise had entered the paper side of the forest products industry in 1958 with a new mill in treeless Wallula, Washington.[7][8]

References

  1. "Boise-Cascade merger with Potlatch complete". Ellensburg Daily Record. (Washington). Associated Press. July 4, 1957. p. 3.
  2. "Boise Cascade to stay in Idaho". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. October 12, 1979. p. 3.
  3. Sloan, Allan (July 5, 1983). "Agee's rise to the top was made without serious setbacks". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). Field Newspaper Syndicate. p. 9B.
  4. "Boise-Cascade back". Ellensburg Daily Record. (Washington). UPI. April 25, 1979. p. 15.
  5. "Boise Cascade Logo: Design and History". FamousLogos.us. Retrieved 2011-08-22.
  6. "Our history". Boise Paper. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  7. Schick, Jim B. (June 14, 1960). "Boise-Cascade has paper plant on sands". Ellensburg Daily Record (Washington). (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin). p. 6.
  8. "Pulp, paper mill at Wallula plans $5,000,000 expansion". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). June 19, 1960. p. 17.

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