American Forest Products Corporation

American Forest Products Corporation
Formerly	Stockton Manufacturing Company; Stockton Box Company; Bendix Forest Products Company;
Founded	1910; 114 years ago in Stockton, California
Founders	Horace Tarter; Clarence Albert Webster;
Key people	Walter S. Johnson
Parent	Bendix Corporation (1969–1981); Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (1981–1988); Georgia-Pacific (from 1988);

American Forest Products Corporation (AFPC) was a Fortune 500^[1] company initially producing wooden boxes and shipping materials but expanding into the timber, sawmill, and lumber industries. The company began in the 1920s and operated under the same leadership until it was sold to the Bendix Corporation in 1969.^[2]

^ "FORTUNE 500: American Forest Products". CNN Money. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ Ravenscraft, David J.; Scherer, F. M. (1 October 2011). Mergers, Sell-Offs, and Economic Efficiency. Brookings Institution Press. pp. 243–245. ISBN 978-0-8157-2317-2. Retrieved 15 February 2022.

[1] "FORTUNE 500: American Forest Products". CNN Money. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

[Ravenscraft_2011-2] Ravenscraft, David J.; Scherer, F. M. (1 October 2011). Mergers, Sell-Offs, and Economic Efficiency. Brookings Institution Press. pp. 243–245. ISBN 978-0-8157-2317-2. Retrieved 15 February 2022.

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Formerly	Stockton Manufacturing Company Stockton Box Company Bendix Forest Products Company
Founded	1910; 114 years ago (1910) in Stockton, California
Founders	Horace Tarter Clarence Albert Webster
Key people	Walter S. Johnson
Parent	Bendix Corporation (1969–1981) Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (1981–1988) Georgia-Pacific (from 1988)