2006
Junior Achievement of Georgia Star Champion Awards
Dan Silk, vice president - commercial, and Amy White, associate market development manager - commercial, received the Junior Achievement of Georgia Star Champion awards for their team's effort to raise over $14,000 for the JA bowl-a-thon and for organizing GP employees to teach five different one-hour JA lessons to over 300 students at M. Agnes Jones Elementary School in Atlanta.
Central Atlanta Progress Dan Sweat Award
Georgia-Pacific Chairman Pete Correll was honored with the Dan Sweat Award for his efforts since the early 1990s to help improve the environment of downtown Atlanta for those who live, work and play there.
The award is given annually to downtown civic leaders who have fought for “doing the right thing” for downtown Atlanta and have gone beyond the scope of their positions in the community.
As chairman of CAP during the mid-1990s, Correll implemented the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, a public-private partnership that works to create a livable environment for Downtown Atlanta. He also led the development of the Ambassador Force, hospitality representatives who provide residents, tourists, conventioneers and business owners with a variety of information and assistance.
Georgia Trend Most Respected Business Leader of Year
Georgia Trend magazine named Georgia-Pacific Chairman Pete Correll its “2006 Most Respected Business Leader”.
Correll led several citywide initiatives, including the Atlanta Committee for Progress, which manages the Brand Atlanta campaign and coordinates the Beltline Partnership. He also promoted cultural diversity by supporting Ebenezer Baptist Church and rallying to change Georgia's state flag.
Partners in Education - Partner of the Year Award
Ft. Smith, Ark., consumer products facility
Employees received the 2006 Partner of the Year Award from the local school system’s Partners in Education program. The plant is paired with a junior high school where several current employees were students and where many employee children attend.
The plant provides financial support to the school—used by the school principal to purchase rewards for student academic performance—as well as donating product and participating in career days. The school also participates with the plant, including a band Christmas concert at the facility and participation in the plant’s United Way campaign, where each classroom collected nickels and pennies to raise a total of $400.
Circle of Humanitarian Award
Port Hudson, La., consumer products facility
The American Red Cross honored employees at Georgia-Pacific’s Port Hudson, La., tissue and communications papers mill, with the Circle of Humanitarian Award for their volunteer relief work through the Louisiana Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross during the 2006 hurricane season.
Despite dealing with power and transportation issues at the mill and in their neighborhoods, employees arranged for thousands of displaced hurricane victims at area shelters to receive five truckloads of Brawny®, Quilted Northern® and Dixie® products. Georgia-Pacific donated the products from the facility and company warehouses in the region.
2005
Reggie and Halo Awards
Georgia-Pacific's Quilted Northern Ultra® bath tissue won two top marketing awards in connection with its Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation partnership to donate more than $1.5 million to the Komen Foundation. The brand captured first place in the event marketing categories of the 2005 Promotional Marketing Association's Reggie Awards and the Cause Marketing Association's Halo Awards.
Portraits of Sweet Success Honoree
Intergenerational Resource Center named Georgia-Pacific as one of the Portraits of Sweet Success honorees for providing financial support to its quality of life programs for more than six years. Because of the support of Georgia-Pacific and other companies, IRC expanded its programs dedicated to seniors and the physically challenged in Atlanta.
CEO of the Year
Georgia-Pacific chairman emeritus and retired CEO Pete Correll was named the 2005 CEO of the Year by Business to Business magazine. The award recognizes people and c ompanies with outstanding records of service to their business as well as Atlanta.
Atlanta Business Hall of Fame
Junior Achievement of Georgia added Georgia-Pacific chairman emeritus and retired CEO Pete Correll to its Atlanta Business Hall of Fame for his leadership and significant impact on the Atlanta business community and beyond.