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Stora Enso

Type	Public
Founded	1998
Headquarters	Helsinki, Finland
Key people	Claes Dahlbäck (Chairman of the board), Jouko Karvinen (CEO)
Industry	Paper and packaging
Products	Publication and fine paper, packaging board, and wood products
Revenue	€14.6 billion (2006)
Employees	44,000
Website	http://www.storaenso.com/

1/8 share of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated June 16, 1288.

Stora Enso Oyj (NYSE: SEO) is a Finnish–Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer, formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso-Gutzeit Oy in 1998. It is headquartered in Helsinki, and it has approximately 46,000 employees. In 2002 it was the fifth largest pulp and paper manufacturer in terms of revenue and in 2005 it was the world´s largest pulp and paper manufacturer in terms of production capacity. The Finnish State is the biggest shareholder in the company. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 211 pixelsFull resolution (1024 Ã— 270 pixel, file size: 18 KB, MIME type: image/png) This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Founded 1550 Country Finland Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area[1] - Of which land - Rank 185. ... The phrase Chairman of the Board has several meanings: Chairman of the Board is the term used to denote the leader of a corporations board of directors. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... One thousand million (1,000,000,000) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... Image File history File links Stora_Kopparberg_1288. ... Image File history File links Stora_Kopparberg_1288. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Stora Enso Oyj (NYSE: SEO) is a Finnish–Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer, formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso in 1998. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... Events February 22 - Nicholas IV becomes Pope. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... An International Paper mill in South Carolina The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American (United States, Canada), northern European (Sweden, Finland) and East Asian countries (such as Japan). ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Founded 1550 Country Finland Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area[1] - Of which land - Rank 185. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Enso-Gutzeit Oy was founded in the 19th century in Norway as W. Gutzeit & Co. by Wilhelm Gutzeit, the half-brother of industrialist Benjamin Wegner. His son Hans Gutzeit moved the company to Finland, where it became the largest forestry company in the country. Jacob Benjamin Wegner (1795-1864) was a Prussian-Norwegian industrialist born in KÃ¶nigsberg. ...

Enso-Gutzeit Osakeyhtiö bought A. Ahlström Osakeyhtiö’s forest industries at Varkaus in December 1986. From 1926 until the merger with Stora in 1998, it was known as Enso-Gutzeit Oy. For the family, see AhlstrÃ¶m â€” Gullichsen family. ... Varkaus is a Middle-Savonian industrial town and municipality of Finland. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Stora was, by one count, the oldest existing corporation or limited liability company in the world. Originally known as Stora Kopparberg, it was granted a charter from King Magnus IV of Sweden in 1347. The first share in the company is however dated already in 1288 and mining in the mountain had started possibly much earlier. Corporate redirects here. ... A limited liability company (denoted by L.L.C. or LLC) is a legal form of business company in the United States (and also in United Arab Emirates) offering limited liability to its owners. ... Sigillum ad causas for Magnus II of Sweden Magnus Ericson, Magnus VII of Norway, the fourth Magnus to have been proclaimed king of Sweden (1316 â€“ December 1, 1377), King of Sweden, Norway, and Terra Scania, son of Duke Eric Magnusson of Sweden and Ingeborg, daughter of Haakon V of Norway. ... Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Events February 22 - Nicholas IV becomes Pope. ...

In 2000, the company acquired the U.S. company Consolidated Paper. In the same year, Stora Enso and AssiDomän formed a joint company, Billerud AB, to produce packaging paper.

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Stora Enso in 2001 (807 words)
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TheStreet.com: Stora Enso to Purchase Consolidated Papers (578 words)
	Investors were concerned that Helsinki-based Stora Enso is overpaying for the acquisition, as shares of the company closed down 16% to 11.10 Finnish marks in Tuesday trading on the Finnish bourse.
	Stora Enso's management expects that the deal will be accretive in the first full year to cash earnings per shares and dilutive after the amortization of goodwill.
	Stora Enso, formed at the end of 1998 by the merger of Finland's Enso and Sweden's Stora, is one of the two largest producers of lightweight coated and SC paper (used in magazines) and coated fine papers (used in annual reports and marketing brochures).

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