Georgia-Pacific
About Georgia-Pacific LLC is headquartered at the Georgia-Pacific Center, 133 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30303 — a distinctive 52-story, pinkish-granite stepped skyscraper in downtown Atlanta’s Central Business District. Founded in 1927 in Augusta, Georgia as Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company, the company relocated its HQ to Atlanta in 1982. In 2005, Koch Industries acquired Georgia-Pacific for ~$21 billion, making it a wholly owned, privately held subsidiary to this day. Georgia-Pacific operates 150+ facilities, employs 30,000+ people directly (89,000+ indirectly), and its consumer brands include Quilted Northern®, Angel Soft®, Brawny®, Dixie®, Sparkle®, and Vanity Fair®. In 2025, GP permanently closed its Cedar Springs, GA containerboard mill (535 jobs, August 2025) and Emporia, VA plywood mill (554 jobs, July 2025), citing housing