James River Corporation specimen stock certificate 1973 (Virginia)

Nice specimen stock with the company's logo. This is the only one we have seen in this style. Green border and green background.  Unissued and cancelled. Circa 1973 when the company changed names.  Measures approximately 12 x 8 inches.  

James River Corporation was a major American pulp and paper company, founded in 1969 and based in Richmond, Virginia. It grew significantly through acquisitions in the 1970s and 1980s, but merged with the Fort Howard Corporation in 1997 to form the Fort James Corporation. This new entity was then acquired by Georgia-Pacific in 2000.

The company was founded in 1969 as the James River Paper Company by Brenton Halsey and Robert Williams, with the purchase of Ethyl Corporation's Specialty Papers Division. Halsey and Williams were both former employees of Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company; the city of Richmond lies along the James River.

The company changed its name to the James River Corporation in 1973, and it acquired the Brown Company subsidiary of Gulf and Western Industries in 1980 and the Dixie/Northern division of American Can Company in 1982.

In 1984, James River Corporation purchased Upper Brandon to use as a corporate retreat and continued the farming operation.  The manor house was restored to its pre-war splendor and James River Corporation embarked on an era of introducing cutting edge conservation practices.  They protected most of the farm in one of the first conservation easements in the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

In 1986, James River acquired the fine paper mill assets of Crown Zellerbach, headquartered in San Francisco, and became the largest paper manufacturer in the world. The brown paper division of CZ was not in the deal and became Gaylord Container Corporation

In 1997, the company merged with the Fort Howard Paper Company of Green Bay, forming the Fort James Corporation. At the time of their merger, James River was one of the largest paper manufacturers, with 60 manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Three years later in 2000, Fort James was acquired by Georgia-Pacific, based in Atlanta.

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