Moreover, timberland in China is only 20 percent as productive as timberland, for example, in the United States.
Joe's acreage is easily developable, with the rest too remote or simply more valuable as timberland.
Harvard loaded up on illiquid stakes in private equity partnerships, emerging-market stocks, timberland and other commodities.
But be warned: This is much less of a pure play than a direct timberland purchase.
Options implied volatility on Timberland Co. dropped 80.5% to 7.76% following news of the acquisition.
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He later recovered by picking up 140, 000 acres of timberland near Yellowstone National Park.
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The Timberland Company (NYSE: TBL), another American clothing producer, also made its way onto the list.
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Why then is the new portal necessar, y if sustainability is so intricately embedded into the work culture at Timberland?
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Deltic Timber, an El Dorado, Ark. owner of timberland, lost all five sell-side analysts who had followed the company.
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Through lumber company Green Diamond Resource, the family owns timberland in Pacific Northwest.
Though investors routinely buy mature timberland, trees must be replaced as they are culled, and saplings take time to grow.
The vogue in the paper business is for producers to sell off their timberland, which ties up too much capital.
Merger Monday rolls on with an offer for a majority stake of Timberland and a big technology acquisition by Honeywell.
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Comparing Yele, which has since closed its doors, to the Timberland and Smallholder Farmers Alliance partnership is like comparing apples to oranges.
One of the most popularly reported fraud cases involving a Chinese company was timberland firm Sino-Forest, traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Similarly, I expect Timberland to be a strong asset to the company.
In contrast, land can produce both near-term cash flow and long-term price appreciation (timberland produces lumber, farmland produces crops or rent, etc.).
Jeffrey Swartz, who runs Timberland, is the grandson of the founder.
In morning trading Target avoided the faith of the Gap, Adidas and the Timberland Company, with its shares rising by a mere 0.06%.
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Notably, the 2011 acquisition of Timberland pushed the Outdoor and Action Sports Coalition from 41.6% of total business in 2010 to 53.9% in 2012.
"You can't just plant trees, walk away and let them grow, " says Tom Johnson, a managing director at Timberland Investment Resources, an Atlanta TIMO.
Toussant and Coombs expect to triple revenue in 2011 thanks to Timberland and smaller deals with Italian sporting wear company Moncler and London retailer Topshop.
Well, the curious folks at Bose, Target and Timberland asked the question after an observation of the obvious and, in due time, became brand leaders.
It turns out that Weyerhaeuser owned timberland in New Bern, N.
For Timberland, the answer was to try to lead in both.
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After 30 years of prescient investments in timberland and other acreage, Blixseth made his first appearance on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans in 2005.
Timberland partnered with Smallholder Farmers Alliance, a local non-governmental organization (NGO), to meet its commitment of helping plant 5 million trees in a five-year period.
And, if needed, we have to backfire to make sure those containment lines hold so it doesn't get into more residences, and more structures, and more timberland.
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