DEERFIELD, Ill., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- At Fort James Corporation's
(NYSE: FJ) annual meeting held today, shareholders elected 11 directors to
one-year terms expiring in 2001.
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Members who were re-elected were Miles L. Marsh, chairman and chief
executive officer of Fort James; Ernst A. Haberli, president of Fort James'
North American tissue operations and technology; Barbara L. Bowles, president
and chief executive officer of the investment management firm the Kenwood
Group, Inc.; William E. Bradford, retired chairman of Halliburton Company;
William T. Burgin, partner in Bessemer Venture Partners; James L. Burke,
president and chief executive officer of SP Newsprint Company; Worley H.
Clark, Jr., president of W.H. Clark Associates, Ltd. and retired chairman and
chief executive officer of Nalco Chemical Company; Gary P. Coughlan, chief
financial officer and senior vice president, finance of Abbott Laboratories;
William V. Daniel, retired managing director of First Union Securities, Inc.;
Robert M. O'Neil, director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection
of Free Expression and former president of the University of Virginia; and
Anne Marie Whittemore, partner in the law firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle &
Boothe, LLP. Fort James' board has 11 members, each of whom is elected to
serve annual terms.
Fort James is a leading international consumer products company, serving
consumers both at home and away-from-home with bathroom and facial tissue,
paper towels, napkins, cups, plates, cutlery and food wrap products. The
company's popular brands include Quilted Northern, Soft 'N Gentle, Brawny,
Mardi Gras, So-Dri, Vanity Fair, and Dixie in North America and Lotus, Okay,
Embo, Colhogar, Tenderly, KittenSoft, and Delica in Europe. With 1999 sales
of $6.8 billion, the company has approximately 25,000 employees and 50
manufacturing facilities principally located in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Copies of today's news release, along with additional information on Fort
James, is available, at no charge, by calling 888-526 3711. You may also
access the company's web site at Internet address http://www.fortjames.com .
SOURCE Fort James Corporation
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CONTACT:
Celeste Gunter, Financial, 847-317-5355, or
Mark Lindley, Media, 847-317-5280, both of Fort James Corporation
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