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• Maintenance Renaissance: Bringing Reliability To Production

  - 2007-11-01

  How Longview Fibre Company used an outside resource to transform its Maintenance Group into a world-class operation...and reduced costs by millions Finding efficiencies and productivity where none or little was thought possible is a perpetual charge of executives and their labor union counterparts. Maintenance departments are being called...

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• Longview starts new era under Brookfield

  - 2007-08-01

  After three generations of family ownership, Longview Fibre embarked on a new era, symbolized in June with Richard "Rick" Wollenberg stepping down as president/CEO two months after the company's $2.15 billion acquisition by Brookfield Asset Management, a Toronto-headquartered global asset management company. The news came as "a bit of a...

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• US Corrugated to buy Longview box plants

  - 2007-05-01

  CONTAINERBOARD US Corrugated is acquiring Longview Fibre's eight corrugated box plants in the central and eastern US for $80.7 million in a transaction that would make the privately owned company one of the largest North American independent corrugated converters. "This acquisition is an important step toward realizing our...

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• Brookfield Asset Management and Longview Fibre Company Announce Completion of Merger

  - 2007-04-20

  Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (TSX: BAM)(NYSE: BAM) ("Brookfield") and Longview Fibre Company (NYSE: LFB)("Longview") today announced the completion of Brookfield's acquisition of Longview for approximately US$2.15 billion including assumed debt. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Brookfield acquired all outstanding shares of Longview Common Stock for $24.75 per...

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• Brookfield Asset Management and Longview Fibre Company Announce Completion of Merger.

  - 2007-04-20

  TORONTO, ONTARIO and LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON, Apr 20, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (TSX:BAM)(NYSE:BAM) ("Brookfield") and Longview Fibre Company (NYSE:LFB)("Longview") today announced the completion of Brookfield's acquisition of Longview for approximately US$2.15 billion including assumed debt. Under the terms...

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• Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging Inc.(People Update)

  - 2007-03-24

  Jack H. Newton has been promoted to manage the paper and paperboard export sales program for Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging Inc. Newton joined the company in 1990 as a marketing services representative in San Francisco. He remains based at the Longview, Wash., corporate office.

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• Longview Fibre Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006 Financial Results

  - 2007-02-27

  - Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend of $0.23 Per Share - LONGVIEW, Wash. -- Longview Fibre Company's (NYSE:LFB) consolidated net sales for the fourth quarter of 2006 increased 10.6 percent to $238.5 million, compared with net sales of $215.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2005(1). Net sales declined 2.9...

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• Longview Fibre finds a buyer.(BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT)

  - 2007-02-10

  Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Toronto, plans to buy Longview Fibre Co. LF, Longview, Wash., for about $1.6 billion. Brookfield will also assume about $518 million in debt. This will add nearly 600,000 acres of private tree farms to the firm's holdings. There are no immediate plans...

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• Current Research on Longview Fibre Co.

  - 2007-02-05

  M2 PRESSWIRE-5 February 2007-Resource News: Current Research on Longview Fibre CoC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05022007 Current Research on Longview Fibre Co (NYSE:LFB) Taking the long view, "paper or plastic?" is not an option at Longview Fibre Company. The company...

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• LF keeps silent on buyout talk.(GOING PRIVATE?)(Longview Fibre)(Brief article)

  - 2007-02-03

  Shareholders and insiders are reportedly saying management of Longview Fibre LF, Longview Wash., is considering taking the company private or spinning off the timberlands, reports The Daily News. It says that an announcement on the buyout proposals is expected by the end of this month. ...

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