The Company operates in three business segments—consumer products, packaging, and paper and pulp. The Company sells its products to both retail and commercial customers. The Company’s retail customers include mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, drug chains and dollar stores.
The Company produces both branded and private label products for the retail market. The Company’s principal retail brands are Quilted Northern, Quilted Northern Ultra and Angel Soft bathroom tissue, Brawny and Sparkle paper towels, and five of the seven leading paper napkin brands, including Vanity Fair premium dinner napkins and Mardi Gras napkins.
The Company is the market leader in proprietary dispensers, which include differentiated products and products that meet the growing consumer concern for hygiene. The Company is also a leader in control products that dispense towels without being touched. These dispensers limit the quantity of tissue dispensed to the end-user, thereby reducing the customers’ costs from wasted tissue. The Company’s commercial products include Cormatic, Ultimatic and Towlmastr brand dispensers; Brawny Professional towels; Quilted Northern Professional bathroom tissue; Envision, the leading brand of 100% recycled tissue, towel and napkin products; and Preference Ultra premium and Acclaim economy bathroom tissue, towel and napkin products.
Dixie offers a full range of products for both the retail and food service channels. The Company sells its Dixie products and North American tissue products to many of the same retail and commercial customers. In addition, the Company’s food service customers include many of the distributors, restaurants, hotels, office buildings and institutions to whom it sells its commercial tissue products.
The Company’s product lines in both the European retail and commercial markets include primarily bathroom and facial tissue, paper towels and paper napkins. Bathroom tissue, towels and napkins accounted for approximately 87% of European annual sales with the balance comprised of feminine hygiene products, ancillary products, such as health care and pharmacy items, and unconverted tissue rolls. The Company is a leading producer of retail tissue products in France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and Turkey. The Company’s European retail sales include both branded and private label products.
The Company’s packaging business is a leading producer of value-added corrugated packaging products. The Company offers a wide variety of corrugated containers, or brown boxes, including single-, double- and triple-wall boxes in the various sizes, strengths and styles required by its customers. The Company manufacturea produce boxes for produce grown throughout North America, with designs that withstand high humidity and maintain structural integrity during shipping and storage, and while on retail store shelves. The Company also provides its produce customers with state-of-the-art graphics and displayable point-of-sale applications. The Company provides state-of-the-art graphic packaging solutions to its retail customers. The Company operates nine specialty printing, coating and converting facilities. The Company manufactures an extensive array of heavy-duty containers designed for its customers’ rigid shipping and storage requirements for industrial and agricultural applications. The Company offers its customers patent pending reusable plastic containers for produce and other shipping and display needs.
The Company’s paper business produces office and printing paper, kraft paper and bleached board products at six of its tissue manufacturing facilities in North America. The Company’s paper-making facilities are among the industry’s lowest-cost producers and are geographically dispersed.
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