Ranked by total number of employees in B.C. in 2021
Published in BIV print edition on July 19, 2021. Sources: Interviews with below companies and BIV research. Other companies may have ranked but information was not available or provided.
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| Rank '21 | Company | Top local executive(s) | Partial list of products | Year founded | No. of worldwide staff '21/'20 | No. of B.C. staff '21/'20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
Canfor Corp |
Don Kayne, president and CEO |
Integrated forest products company and producer of sustainable lumber, pulp and paper and green energy |
1938 |
7,110 (1) |
3,670 |
|
2
|
West Fraser Timber Co Ltd |
Raymond Ferris, president and CEO |
Diversified wood products company producing lumber, laminated veneer lumber, medium-density fibreboard, plywood, pulp, newsprint, other residuals and energy with facilities in Western Canada and the southern U.S. |
1955 |
10,000 |
2,772 (2) |
|
3
|
Paper Excellence |
Lloyd Carter, vice-president of operations, West |
Pulp and paper manufacturing |
2007 |
2,800 |
2,000 |
|
4
|
Mosaic Forest Management Corp |
Jeff Zweig, president and CEO |
Timber and land management |
1997 |
NP |
2,000 |
|
5
|
Western Forest Products Inc |
Donald Demens, president and CEO, Stephen Williams, executive vice-president and CFO |
Timber harvesting, reforestation, forest management, sawmilling logs into lumber and wood chips and value-added lumber remanufacturing |
2004 |
2,153 (1) |
1,966 |
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