Louisiana Pacific
| Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US5463471053 |
| founding | 1973 |
| Seat | Nashville , United States |
| management | W. Bradley Southern, CEO |
| Number of employees | 4,900 |
| sales | 2,828,000,000 USD |
| Branch | Timber industry |
| Website | www.lpcorp.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP) is a manufacturer of building materials from the United States . The company is listed in the S&P 500 . The company was founded in 1973 in Nashville , Tennessee .
From 1973 to 2004 the company's headquarters were in Portland , Oregon . In 2004 the head office was relocated to Nashville, Tennessee. The company had the naming rights to LP Field , the stadium of the Tennessee Titans and the football club of the Tennessee State University in Nashville from 2006 to 2015 . Products include chipboard , wood ceilings, wood cladding and similar product segments.
history
LP was founded in 1973 as a result of a court ruling breaking the Georgia-Pacific company's monopoly . President Harry Merlo was LP President for the first 22 years.
In the 1990s, LP acquired ABTco in the eastern United States and Forex in Canada.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Louisiana-Pacific 2018 Form 10-K Report , accessed March 2, 2019