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Institute Of Paper Science And Technology

500 10th St Nw
Atlanta, GA 30318

General Phone: 404-894-5700
Financial Aid Phone: 404-894-7763
Sector: Private nonprofit, 4-year or above
Classification: Schools of engineering and technology
Website: www.ipst.edu

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Georgia-Pacific's Pete Correll Named 2005 CEO of the Year for the ... - PR Newswire (press release)

BOSTON, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Paperloop today announced that Georgia-Pacific's chairman and chief executive officer, A.D. "Pete" Correll has been selected as the 2005 CEO of the Year. Correll will be presented with the award on October 17 via satellite at the 20th RISI North American Forest Products Conference at San Diego, Calif. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051017/CLM058 ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030425/PAPLOGO ) Correll was nominated CEO of the Year in an annual Paperloop survey of investment analysts and portfolio managers that includes such criteria as leadership, vision and strategic accomplishment. Will Mies, Paperloop Editorial Director-News Services, said the award recognizes Correll's role in the major transformation of Georgia-Pacific over the past five years. "Under his watch, Georgia-Pacific changed from a cyclical forest products producer into a more consumer-oriented company, which obtains half of its profits from tissue manufacturing, with an increasing focus on selling products -- whether tissue, building materials, or office papers-through mass retail channels," said Mies. The key to the transformation was Georgia-Pacific's acquisition of Fort James Corp. in 2000, which significantly expanded the company's existing tissue business and vaulted it into the ranks of the world's top tissue producers. This was followed by the spin-off of the company's 4.7 million - more available