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Willamette Industries, Inc. was a Fortune 500 forest products company based in Portland, Oregon, United States.〔(Willamette Industries Donates Critical Habitats to The Nature Conservancy. ) The Nature Conservancy. Retrieved March 24, 2008.〕 In 2002 the lumber and paper company was purchased by competitor Weyerhaeuser of Federal Way, Washington in a hostile buyout and merged into Weyerhaeuser's existing operations.
==History==
Willamette Industries was founded in Dallas, Oregon, in 1906 as the Willamette Valley Lumber Company.〔Manning, Jeff. "The past Willamette Industries charges ahead". ''The Oregonian'', June 25, 2000.〕 Louis Gerlinger, Sr. was president of the new company and H.L. Pittock, vice president. George T. Gerlinger served as secretary and manager while F.W. Leadbetter was treasurer. George Cone served as director and mill superintendent.〔Catherine A. Baldwin (1982). ''Making the Most of the Best: Willamette Industries' Seventy-Five Years''. (Portland, OR: Willamette Industries, 172 p.).〕
In 1967, this company and several others merged to become Willamette Industries.〔(Willamette Industries SEC 10K for 1999. ) Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved March 24, 2008.〕 The next year the company went public.〔 The company continued to grow through acquisitions, including purchasing Bohemia, Inc. in 1991, which at the time was one of the largest lumber companies in Oregon. By 1999 it had grown to 14,000 employees with $4 billion in annual revenues and more than 100 facilities across the United States.〔
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