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Jackson Paper Company was founded in 1921 by
Mr. Harvey Newell. Newell's employees started off selling industrial
paper products like paper towels, toilet paper and cups, later
adding fine printing paper and janitorial supplies and equipment
to the list of products. Today, the company sells more than 7,000
different products to its customers under three primary product
lines: fine printing papers, industrial grade papers and
janitorial supplies and equipment. In 1946, the company expanded
its operation by opening the Newell Paper Company in Meridian.
The Newell Company name has since been expanded to include
operations in Columbus, Mississippi by building a new office and
warehouse there in 1968. Bruce Paper Company of Hattiesburg,
Mississippi was acquired in May of 1985 and now operates as
Newell Paper Company of Hattiesburg. The Demopolis, Alabama location
was opened in October of 1995 and additional Alabama territory
is served from that location. The company has continued to add items to its product offering, such as industrial packaging, Institutional laundry and warewash chemicals and automated dispensing systems. The company also has service technicians to service the equipment it sells. The company has aligned itself with most of the major manufacturers for each type product and has an unusually wide product offering that is backed by an outside sales force of over 40 trained and experienced sales people. The company has its own fleet of 40 trucks and maintains a delivery schedule for all of its territories. In 1999 the company was in the top 100 privately owned companies in Mississippi. Today the company, which is owned entirely by its employees as a privately held corporation, covers a market area which includes over 8,000 customers in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama and has 185 employees. As the company looks to the future, the philosophy that has made the company successful remains unchanged: To observe the Golden Rule and to give back to the community. The company each year funds a seperate, non-profit foundation to support the communities in which we operate. |