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Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world. It is composed of the assets sold off when the publicly-traded Boise Cascade Corporation renamed itself OfficeMax Inc. (after acquiring the company of the same name in 2003).
Boise Cascade Corporation, was established in 1957 as the result of the merger between Boise-Payette Lumber Company of Boise and the Cascade Lumber Company of Yakima, Washington.
Boise-Payette was established in 1913 from a merger of the Payette Lumber & Manufacturing Company and Barber Lumber, a Wisconsin company with operations in the Boise Basin. Payette Lumber, a Minnesota firm, acquired 33,000 acres (130 km²) of state timber in Idaho's Long Valley near present-day Cascade in 1902. To control the passage of logs downstream, the company built a large splash dam below Smith's Ferry on the North Fork of the Payette River. Logs were sent downstream to sawmills in the town of Payette.
In the 1960s, Boise Cascade acquired a majority interest in the Cuban Electric Co., the primary electric utility in pre-Castro Cuba.
Strengths
* Consumer Satisfaction
* Strong management team
* Real estate location
* Market Position
* Highly productive assets
* Store managers' flexibility to make merchandising decisions
Weaknesses
* Inconsistent in-store execution
* Crowded parking lot and inconvenient phsycial layout of store
* Failure to push more private-label brands
* Failure to promote brands for baby-boomers and younger generations
Opportunities
Boise Cascade Corporation, was established in 1957 as the result of the merger between Boise-Payette Lumber Company of Boise and the Cascade Lumber Company of Yakima, Washington.
Boise-Payette was established in 1913 from a merger of the Payette Lumber & Manufacturing Company and Barber Lumber, a Wisconsin company with operations in the Boise Basin. Payette Lumber, a Minnesota firm, acquired 33,000 acres (130 km²) of state timber in Idaho's Long Valley near present-day Cascade in 1902. To control the passage of logs downstream, the company built a large splash dam below Smith's Ferry on the North Fork of the Payette River. Logs were sent downstream to sawmills in the town of Payette.
In the 1960s, Boise Cascade acquired a majority interest in the Cuban Electric Co., the primary electric utility in pre-Castro Cuba.
Strengths
* Consumer Satisfaction
* Strong management team
* Real estate location
* Market Position
* Highly productive assets
* Store managers' flexibility to make merchandising decisions
Weaknesses
* Inconsistent in-store execution
* Crowded parking lot and inconvenient phsycial layout of store
* Failure to push more private-label brands
* Failure to promote brands for baby-boomers and younger generations
Opportunities
- Aging population favorable for core categories
- Leverage prime real estate
- Walgreens Health Services (WHS) division
- In-store Health clinics expansion
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Threats
* Promotional activity damaging margins
* Large number of stores rapidly aging
* Increased competition from CVS & other stores opening pharmacies (i.e., grocery stores, Wal-Mart)
* Consolidation of trips in the retail industry