Orchids Paper Products Company

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.orchidspaper.com
Employees: 296
Employee growth: 1.4%

Orchids Paper Products hopes to leave its end users smelling like a rose. The company makes bulk tissue paper and converts it into bathroom tissue, paper napkins, and paper towels for the consumer market. Most of the company's products are sold as private-label items by discount retailers; Orchids Paper products also are sold under the company's Colortex and Velvet brands. Dollar General is Orchids Paper's largest customer; other big customers include Family Dollar and Wal-Mart. Orchids Paper sells most of its products within a 900-mile radius of its manufacturing plant in northeastern Oklahoma.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2011:
Sales: $97.8M
One year growth: 5.8%
Net income: $6.2M
Income growth: 4.8%

Officers:
Chairman: Jay Shuster
President, CEO, and Director: Robert A. Snyder
CFO and Secretary: Keith R. Schroeder

Competitors:
Cascades Tissue Group
Georgia-Pacific
Potlatch