Bowater

Bowater

Bowater is an American pulp and paper company based in Greenville, South Carolina. Bowater has 12 pulp and paper mills in the United States, Canada and South Korea and 13 North American sawmills. It has approximately 10,000 employees. Bowater acquired its Canadian interests in the late 1990's when they bought Avenor (formerly Canadian Pacific Forest Products (CPFP)).

Financial Information [http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/b/bow_ai.html]
20022001
Total revenue (US$M)2,5812,454
Net Earnings (Loss) (US$M)(142)70.5

Merger with Abitibi-Consolidated

On January 29th, 2007, Bowater and Abitibi-Consolidated announced they would be merging to create AbitibiBowater. [http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/01/29/abitibibowater.html] The merger would created the third largest pulp and paper company in North America, and the eighth largest in the world.

External links

* [http://www.bowater.com Company web site]
* [http://biz.yahoo.com/p/b/bow.html Yahoo company profile]


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