Consuming Canada's Boreal Forest: The chain of ... - Greenpeace
Consuming Canada's Boreal Forest: The chain of ... - Greenpeace
Consuming Canada's Boreal Forest: The chain of ... - Greenpeace
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<strong>Greenpeace</strong><br />
Toys “R” Us (retailer/catalogue)<br />
Total Revenue: CDN$12 billion (US$11 billion) (2006)<br />
Head Office:<br />
Toys “R” Us, Inc.<br />
1 Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Way<br />
Wayne, NJ 07470 USA<br />
Phone: (973) 617-3500<br />
Fax: (973) 617-4006<br />
www.toysrus.com<br />
CEO: Gerald L. (Jerry) Storch<br />
This toy superstore <strong>chain</strong> holds the number-two position<br />
for retail toy sellers in the United States, just behind<br />
Wal-Mart. On top <strong>of</strong> its 590 American stores, Toys “R”<br />
Us operates over 1500 international stores, as well as<br />
about 250 Babies “R” Us stores. In 2005, the company<br />
was sold for US$6.6 billion to two private equity firms,<br />
Bain Capital LLC and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.,<br />
and to real estate developer Vornado Realty Trust.<br />
Destruction <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Boreal</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>: Toys “R” US<br />
buys Krukote paper from Kruger’s Wayagamack Mill<br />
in Quebec. Kruger logs in intact <strong>Boreal</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> and in<br />
caribou habitat.<br />
Verso (paper manufacturer)<br />
Total Revenue: CDN$1.8 billion (US$1.6 billion) (2006)<br />
Head Office:<br />
Verso Paper Holding LLC<br />
6775 Lenox Center Ct.<br />
Memphis, TN 38115 USA<br />
Phone: (877) 837-7606<br />
www.versopaper.com<br />
CEO: Michael A. Jackson<br />
Formerly International Paper, Verso produces paper for<br />
magazines, catalogues and other commercial uses. <strong>The</strong><br />
company operates four paper mills in the United States,<br />
the combined capacity <strong>of</strong> which is approximately 1.7<br />
million tons <strong>of</strong> paper.<br />
Products: Verso produces a variety <strong>of</strong> chemically and<br />
mechanically processed papers, which come in coated<br />
or uncoated. <strong>The</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> Verso papers are used to<br />
print either magazines or catalogues.<br />
Customers: Verso provides paper to over 100 clients.<br />
Time, Inc., Southern Living, People and Sports<br />
Illustrated magazines are all printed on Verso papers.<br />
Catalogues printed on Verso papers include Lands’ End<br />
and Eddie Bauer.<br />
Destruction <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Boreal</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>: Verso buys<br />
NBSK pulp from SFK Pulp’s Saint-Félicien Mill. SFK<br />
receives 90 per cent <strong>of</strong> its chips for pulping from Abitibi-<br />
Consolidated. Abitibi logs in intact <strong>Boreal</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>.<br />
Other select customers <strong>of</strong> Abitibi-Consolidated,<br />
Kruger, Bowater, and SFK Pulp, and thus part<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Boreal</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>chain</strong> <strong>of</strong> destruction:<br />
Axel Springer<br />
Newspaper / magazine publisher<br />
Capital One<br />
Credit cards/finance<br />
Circuit City<br />
Retail electronics store<br />
Coles — Indigo Books and Music<br />
Book and magazine retail store<br />
Druckhaus Ulm-Oberschwaben<br />
Printer<br />
Druckzentrum Osnabrueck<br />
Printer<br />
Harlequin Group USA<br />
Book publisher<br />
Houghton Mifflin<br />
Book publisher<br />
Intermedia Print<br />
Printer<br />
Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger - DuMont Schauberg Group<br />
Newspaper<br />
K-Mart<br />
Retail store<br />
La Scala Bedding<br />
Home decorating company<br />
Lanoga<br />
Home improvement store<br />
84 Lumber<br />
Building materials and services supplier<br />
to pr<strong>of</strong>essional builders<br />
Saarbruecker Zeitung - Holtzbrinck Group<br />
Publisher<br />
Syke Kreiszeitung Verlag<br />
Newspaper<br />
Sealy<br />
Boxspring and mattress manufacturer<br />
St Ives Direct UK<br />
Printer<br />
Valassis Communications<br />
Junk mail management<br />
Vertis<br />
Junk mail management<br />
Volksfreund Druck Trier - Holtzbrinck Group<br />
Newspapers<br />
Wal-Mart<br />
Retail store<br />
WAZ Essen<br />
Newspapers<br />
Weser-Ems-Druck<br />
Printer<br />
<strong>Consuming</strong> <strong>Canada's</strong> <strong>Boreal</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>chain</strong> <strong>of</strong> destruction from logging companies to consumers<br />
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