Fort James Corporation was an American

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company based in

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. Its products were sold under a variety of brand names, which included Brawny, Mardi Gras, and Quilted Northern. At the time of its acquisition, Fort James Corporation was the United States' largest manufacturer of commercial tissue.

History

In 1997, the

Fort Howard Paper Company Fort Howard Paper Company was an American Pulp and paper industry, pulp and paper company based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Its products were sold under a variety of brand names, including ''Envision'', ''Fort Howard'', ''Mardi Gras'', and ''Soft'n G ...

and the

James River Corporation James River Corporation was an American pulp and paper company based in Richmond, Virginia, once the largest paper manufacturer in the world. History The company was founded in 1969 as the James River Paper Company by Brenton Halsey and Robert W ...

merged to form the Fort James Corporation. Fort Howard was headquartered in

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, and James River in

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. By 1999, Fort James was operating nine of the eleven largest wide tissue machines in the world. In 2000, the Fort James Corporation was acquired by

Georgia-Pacific Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of Tissue paper, tissue, Pulp (paper), pulp, paper, toilet and paper towe ...

(GP) for $11 billion; GP is based in

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