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Sappi Limited (SPP)At 10:00AM ET: 3.98  Up 0.04 (1.02%)  
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Sappi Limited
48 Ameshoff Street
Sappi House
Johannesburg,  2001
South Africa - Map
Phone: 27 11 407 8111
Fax: 27 11 403 8236
Web Site: http://www.sappi.com

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Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Consumer Goods
Industry:Paper & Paper Products
Full Time Employees:16,427

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Sappi Limited operates in the pulp and paper industry worldwide. It produces and sells coated woodfree paper used for brochures, catalogues, corporate communications materials, direct mail promotions, educational textbooks, luxury advertising, magazine covers, and upscale magazines; and uncoated woodfree paper for business forms, business stationery, general printing paper, tissue, and photocopy paper; and specialty woodfree paper used in bags, labels, packaging, and release paper for casting textured finishes, as well as packaging paper products used for primary and secondary packaging of fast moving consumer goods, agricultural, and industrial products. The company also provides mechanical papers, such as newsprint, which is manufactured from groundwood and bleached chemical pulp, used for advertising inserts and newspapers; uncoated mechanical paper, an uncoated groundwood fiber based paper, primarily used for magazines, catalogues, and advertising material; and coated mechanical/magazine paper, a coated groundwood fiber based paper, primarily used for magazines, catalogues, and advertising material. In addition, it produces chemical cellulose, as well as a range of paper pulp grades, including mechanical pulp used in newsprint, unbleached kraft pulp, bleached kraft pulp, and bleached sulphite pulp. Further, Sappi Limited offers sawn timber for the building industry and components for the furniture and packaging industry. Its customers include merchants, converters, printers, publishers, and other direct customers. The company was formerly known as South African Pulp and Paper Industries Limited and changed its name to Sappi Limited in 1973. Sappi Limited was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Roeloff Jacobus Boëttgerr BAcc Hons, CA (SA), 48
    Chief Exec. Officer and Exec. Director
    $ 898.00KN/A
    Mr. Mark Richard Thompson BCom, BAcc, LLB, CA, 57
    Chief Financial Officer and Exec. Director
    $ 364.00KN/A
    Wayne Rau HND (Marketing), Senior Executive Programme, 47
    Chief Exec. Officer of Sappi Trading
    N/A N/A
    Mr. Jan Harm Labuschagne B.Com (Hon), CA (SA), 50
    Chief Exec. Officer of Sappi Sothern Africa
    N/A N/A
    Mr. Mark Gardner BS, 54
    Chief Exec. Officer of Sappi Fine Paper North America and Pres of Sappi Fine Paper - North America
    N/A N/A
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-09 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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