Giants Team Up On E-Marketplace

International Paper, Georgia-Pacific and Weyerhaeuser arc jointly developing a global business-to-business online marketplace to buy and sell paper and forest products.

The paper and forest products industry leaders believe that a joint electronic marketplace will benefit customers by simplifying transaction processes, improving information flow and increasing speed of delivery, thereby reducing costs. They hope it serves as a foundation for common industry standards to simplify and accelerate industrywide adoption of electronic commerce.

Providing both procurement and sales functions means the online marketplace could enable participants to streamline purchasing operations, reduce inventories, cut internal costs and increase capital efficiency in the industry.

The business will operate as an independent entity with its own board of directors and management team. Initially, the three founding companies will hold equal equity positions, but expect additional partners to join. Based on its success, the companies eventually may take the business public. They are searching for a chief executive officer for the new operation and are assessing potential technology partners.

The steering committee includes IP executives Marianne M. Parrs and John N. Balboni, G-P's David J. parerson and Robert A. Renner, and Weyerhaeuser's Mack L. Hogans and Darien E. Roseen. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter will provide fi nancial consulting services.

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Carl C. Gates, 97, retired wholesale lumber broker, Dobbins Forest Products, Birmingham, Al., died March 2.

A native of Madison, Al., and a former government lumber inspector, he was honored last year for being the oldest man in the industry (see April 1999, p. 30).

He worked for Dobbins Forest Products for over a halfcentury before retiring in 1999, and reportedly had not taken a vacation in over 60 years.

James Greeley McGowin, 1I,72, retired vice president and general manager of woodlands and building products for Union Camp Corp., Chapman, Al., and current chairman of the American Lumber Standard Committee, died after a brief illness Feb. l8 at his residence in Chapman.

He was a graduate of Princeton University and Pembroke College, Oxford, England.

A longtime employee of the family business, W.T. Smith Lumber Co., Chapman, he remained with the firm after its 1966 sale to Union Camp, becoming v.p. and general mgr.-woodlands & building products, until his retirement in 1991. The firm has since been acquired by International Paper.

He was a board member and former vice chairman of the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau, a member of the Tax Sub-Committee of the American Forest and Paper Association, and a board member of the Forest Industries Council of Taxation.

Jack W. Lodge, Jr., 87, founder of Lodge Lumber Co., Inc., Houston, Tx., died of cancer Feb 1 1.

A native of Houston and member of the Lumberman's Association of Texas, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps for five years during WW II and founded Lodge Lumber in 1944.

Robert E. Canton. 73. retired chairman of Canton Lumber Co. and former chairman of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association, died from emphysema and pneumonia March 9 in Panama.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota, he served in the Army during WW II and worked for Canton Lumber, Minneapolis, Mn., for 40 years, before retiring in 1988. He was named Twin Cities Hoo-Hoo Club Lumberman of the Year in 1972.

James H. Carr, Jr., 85, former ceo of the American Lumber Standard Committee, Inc., and retired owner, James H. Carr. Inc.. died after a stroke Feb. 17 in Wilmington, De.

A native of Hopedale, Ma., and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he started working for Timber Engineering Co., Washington, D.C., in 1936. He ran Washington, D.C.-based James H. Carr, Inc., from 1949 until his retirement in 1977 and served as secretary and ceo of ALSC through 1965.

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