Corporate Profile:
Boise Cascade
Office Products
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With
worldwide
total sales
of U.S.
$7.0 billion,
the
company is
now ranked
252 in the
Fortune 500
and owns
and
manages
over 2 million
acres of
timberland
US Company Background
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BCC Shareholders
The following table shows all shareholders owning more than 1% of the BC shares.
| Shareholder | Country | Shareholding | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forstmann-Leff Associates Inc. | United States | $282.782.489 | 14,978% |
| Dodge & Cox, Inc. | United States | $136.030.504 | 7,205% |
| The Prudential Insurance Co. of America | United States | $126.742.630 | 6,713% |
| Franklin Mutual Advisers Llc | N/A | $102.421.685 | 5,425% |
| Franklin Mutual Advisers, Inc. | United States | $93.365.935 | 4,945% |
| State Street Bank and Trust Co. Boston | United States | $86.299.947 | 4,571% |
| Putnam Investment Management | United States | $82.047.565 | 4,346% |
| Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (NJ) | United States | $67.478.444 | 3,574% |
| Barclays Global Investors, N.A. | United States | $58.265.091 | 3,086% |
| Jennison Associates LLC | United States | $46.167.597 | 2,445% |
| Bernstein Investment Research & Mgmt | United States | $42.662.857 | 2,260% |
| Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Invt (UK) | England | $38.615.299 | 2,045% |
| Luther King Capital Management | United States | $38.160.931 | 2,021% |
| Van Kampen | United States | $35.504.797 | 1,881% |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc. | United States | $33.325.160 | 1,765% |
| The Vanguard Group | United States | $30.991.938 | 1,642% |
| Prudential Investments | United States | $26.861.001 | 1,423% |
| George J. Harad | United States | $25.148.707 | 1,332% |
| Peregrine Capital Management, Inc. | United States | $24.499.920 | 1,298% |
| Trusco Capital Management Inc. | United States | $23.483.239 | 1,244%3 |
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Company Description
Boise Cascade Office Products (BCOP) is a multi-national, business to business distributor of office products and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BCC.BCC's expansion into the office products industry commenced in 1964 with the creation of Boise Office Solutions4. In 1995 Boise Cascade Office Products (BOP on the New York Stock Exchange) was created by BCC to act as a separate, publicly traded company, but with the majority of the stock remaining in the hands of the BCC. In 2000 Boise Cascade Office Products again became a wholly-owned subsidiary of BCC, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange as BCOP.
BCOP has 63 distribution centres, 2 outbound telesales centres and 4 customer service centres. It also operates over 100 retail stores in the United States (including Hawaii), Canada, Australia and New Zealand. BCOP provides its customers with a large range of items including office supplies, paper, computer supplies, and office furniture5. BCOP specialises in selling products directly to corporate, government, and small and medium-sized offices:
- Customers with more than one location often have national contracts that provide consistent pricing and product offerings, as well as summary billing, usage reports, and other special services6.
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Xerox's connection to Boise Cascade Office Products
1998...Xerox aligns with nation's leading office product suppliers; U.S. Office Products, Office Depot, Boise Cascade Office Products, Corporate Express and Staples to offer Xerox paper and supplies.7
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