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''I was a very dapper kid,'' says Wes Gordon, the 33-year-old creative director of Carolina Herrera, who at 4 was already partial to double-breasted suits, Windsor-knotted neckties and red suspenders. [...]

The blaze broke out early Sunday morning in a residential building used to manufacture paper products and cardboard. NEW DELHI -- At least 43 people were killed Sunday morning when [...]

NASH--Sheldon W.,89, on April 27. Renaissance man, scholar, world traveler and philanthropist. He graduated from City College with a Masters in Economics. During World War II he served in the [...]

NASH--Sheldon W.,89, on April 27. Renaissance man, scholar, world traveler and philanthropist. He graduated from City College with a Masters in Economics. During World War II he served in the [...]

The acquisition of the Jefferson Smurfit Group, an Irish box and paper manufacturer, by Madison Dearborn Partners of Chicago neared its final stages yesterday when the Irish High Court approved […]

The Georgia-Pacific Corporation said yesterday that it had agreed to sell 60 percent of its Unisource Worldwide distribution unit for $850 million to an investment company to reduce debt before […]

Citing a sluggish economy and reduced demand, the International Paper Company said yesterday that it would close and put up for sale its Hudson River mill in Corinth, N.Y., in […]

Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has reached an agreement to acquire the Jefferson Smurfit Group, a major global paper and packaging conglomerate based in Ireland, the two […]

Madison Dearborn Partners, a private investment firm in Chicago, has agreed to buy the Jefferson Smurfit Group, an Irish paper and packaging company, for 3.53 billion euros ($3.34 billion), people […]

Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago, is in talks to acquire the Jefferson Smurfit Group, the large paper and packaging company in Ireland, people close to […]

The Boise Cascade Corporation, the paper and lumber maker, said an expected loss in the first quarter would be wider than analysts' forecasts because of falling paper prices and expenses […]

The tissue maker Svenska Cellulosa said yesterday that it had bought the Encore Paper Company for $92 million to increase its market share in the United States. Encore, based in […]

The Jefferson Smurfit Group, a paper and packaging manufacturer, reported slight growth in first-half revenue and profit, as the downturn in the United States offset gains in Europe. Smurfit said […]

The International Paper Company plans to lay off 225 employees at its Hudson River Mill in Corinth, N.Y., and indefinitely shut down one of two paper machines on July 20. […]

Gone, evidently, are the days when the annual meetings of Ireland's blue-chip companies were placid affairs attended by retirees who showed up as much for the free sandwiches as for […]

The Georgia-Pacific Corporation plans to sell four paper mills to Domtar Inc., a Canadian company, as part of its efforts to repay debt. Details of the proposed deal were not […]

The Asia Pulp and Paper Company plans to stop paying interest and principal on $12 billion in debt, saying a drop in pulp and paper prices had left it without […]

Weyerhaeuser today extended its hostile $5.4 billion tender offer for Willamette Industries until May 18. Weyerhaeuser said that as of noon today, about 31.4 million shares, or 29 percent, had […]

The Weyerhaeuser Company will extend a $5.4 billion tender offer for Willamette Industries until the end of March as part of its hostile takeover bid. Weyerhaeuser's $48-a-share offer, which was […]

Johns Manville, the building materials manufacturer, said yesterday that it would renegotiate its agreement to be sold to a group of investors for $3 billion after it reported disappointing quarterly […]

The International Paper Company, the biggest maker of forestry products and paper, agreed yesterday to sell its Masonite Corporation building-products unit to Premdor Inc. of Canada for $523 million. Masonite, […]

The Empire Paper Group will spend $20 million to buy the century-old Appleton Coated Paper Mill at Newton Falls in Potsdam, N.Y., preserving 130 jobs and creating an additional 120, […]

International Paper, the world's largest producer of paper products, will move its corporate headquarters from Purchase to a 15-story building in downtown Stamford, which it obtained when it acquired Champion […]

International Paper has agreed to move its combined world headquarters from Purchase, N.Y., to Stamford, Conn., ending a fierce competition between Connecticut and New York for International, the largest maker […]

The American Pad and Paper Company, which invented the legal pad in 1888, agreed today to sell its Williamhouse envelope unit to Saratoga Partners, a New York-based merchant bank, for […]

The International Paper Company, the world's largest maker of paper and forest products, said today that its second-quarter profit more than tripled as a result of higher prices and cost-cutting. […]

Yahoo's Quarterly Profit Beats Analysts' Estimates Yahoo posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings, quelling investor concerns that consolidation and business failures among struggling dot-coms might hurt its revenue base. Yahoo reported net […]

American Tissue Inc., a closely held paper maker, said today that it had acquired CST/Star Inc. for undisclosed terms to add business forms and label paper to its line of […]

The International Paper Company said on Monday that a rival, the Champion International Corporation, had agreed to talk about its unsolicited $6.2 billion offer, setting up a potential bidding war […]

The International Paper Company offered yesterday to buy the Champion International Corporation for a combination of cash and stock worth $6.2 billion, or $64 a share, just two months after […]

Ever since President Clinton came to office, he's been at war with timber companies, paper producers and others who want to preserve and expand their use of the National Forest […]

The Mead Corporation said yesterday that it had sold $90 million in assets, including its Mead Ink Products, and was ahead of its schedule for divesting itself of more than […]

The Avery Dennison Corporation, based in Pasadena, Calif., and a unit of Steinbeis Holding G.m.b.H., of Germany, said yesterday that they would set up a joint venture to manufacture and […]

WHEN Marilyn Cohen speaks of the courageous force that drove many of the women she depicts in her painting exhibition 'Teach Me the Songs My Mothers Sang: A Celebration of […]

WHEN Marilyn Cohen speaks of the courageous force that drove many of the women she depicts in her painting exhibition, 'Teach Me the Songs My Mothers Sang: A Celebration of […]

There are two salient facts about Wednesday's agreement on global warming in Kyoto. The first is that it could lead to an environmental undertaking of historic scale. If the industrialized […]

Sappi Ltd. agreed yesterday to pay almost $1.3 billion for nearly all of KNP Leykam of Austria, creating Europe's largest maker of fine-grade papers used in magazines and annual reports. […]

Two specialty paper manufacturers in Wisconsin, the Wausau Paper Mills Company and the Mosinee Paper Corporation, said today that they would merge in a stock swap valued at about $442 […]

Consolidated Papers Inc. agreed yesterday to buy Repap Wisconsin Inc., a unit of a troubled Canadian paper maker, for $227 million in cash and the assumption of $447 million in […]

The Wausau Paper Mills Company said late on Tuesday that it had tentatively agreed to acquire Otis Specialty Papers, a unit of Rexam P.L.C., for $58 million. Wausau, based in […]

THIS is about Freddie the Frog, who is alive and well, and a dog that is dead, and engravers' dies, which are somewhere in between. We are talking stationery here. […]

Consolidated Papers Inc., a leading producer of coated papers, said yesterday that it would invest $166 million and add 55 permanent jobs to expand capacity at its mill in Stevens […]

After months of wrangling between environmental groups and the paper industry, the Clinton Administration yesterday issued an executive order requiring Federal agencies and the military to buy paper made from […]

Environmental groups and the paper industry are battling over a proposed Presidential order intended to promote recycling by committing the Government to buying printing and writing paper made with more […]

THREE years ago, the Danbury artist Peter A. Dubos put aside his watercolor brushes to try something different -- making paper from scratch. A friend introduced him to Elmer Garrett, […]

WHEN personal computers first appeared in offices a decade ago, seers forecast a future in which paper documents would be obsolete, replaced by flurries of electrons and phosphors. Instead, according […]

Entertainment Weekly magazine is beginning the new year with a new trade advertising campaign and new recycled paper stock. The campaign for the Time Inc. Magazine Company weekly, by Deutsch […]

Kent Rhodes, the former chief of Reader's Digest and retired spokesman for the nation's magazine industry, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 79 years old and also […]

The International Paper Company, the nation's largest paper producer, said yesterday that it was cutting 1,000 positions from its worldwide work force and that it would adopt an accounting change […]