Another U.S. firm joins wood boycott

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84 Lumber Co. (Pennsylvania) has joined the growing list of US companies to boycott wood from endangered forests. These companies have issued restrictive lumber-buying policies in wake of an aggressive campaign by environmentalists to cut off key US markets for Canadian old-growth Lumber. But B.C. forestry companies point that no one has yet adequately defined what constitutes an endangered forest. 84 Lumber has pledged to give preference to lumber certified by independent agencies like Forest Stewardship Council, the Canadian Standards Association and International Standards Organization. The Canadian industry is battling a move to make Forest Stewardship Council favored by the environmentalists.

United States, Building Materials, Retail, Building Material and Supplies Dealers, Lumber and other building materials, Retail industry, Retail trade, Building materials industry, 84 Lumber Co.

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Canoe links up with logistics firm

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Quebecor Inc.'s (Montreal) Internet portal Canoe is teaming up with Flex Logistics Inc., which will provide the web site's retailers with order fulfillment and distribution capabilities across Canada, and later the US. Canoe, which currently specializes in news and information, plans to launch its e-commerce venture, Shop.canoe, this fall. The agreement also gives Canoe the option of acquiring an equity position in Flex, a wholly owned division of Beamscope Canada Inc. (Richmond Hill, Ont.).

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Barilla cooks up a storm in U.S. aisles: Pasta firm's strategy makes it more than a flash in the pan

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Barilla, the Italian pasta maker company, is a leading brand in the US with a total of 16.9 percent of profit in the entire pasta making community in 2000. Barilla sells dry pasta and has a strong aversion towards the theory of Robert Atkins, the diet leader, who advocated a reduced intake of pasta and bread in his diets.

Italy, Sales, profits & dividends, FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS, Food industry, Company sales and earnings, Company earnings/profit, Barilla, Food and beverage production/distribution software

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