In 2002 Correll sought to reduce the company's debts and increase shareholder value by splitting Georgia-Pacific into two separate publicly traded companies
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In October 2002 he was hospitalized with chest pains, and he required angioplasty to open a blocked artery.
married Ada Lee Fulford
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
In August 1993 Correll was appointed to the President's Council on Sustainable Development.
Correll began selling off many of the company's building-products businesses.
Correll spent the first ten years of his career at the Weyerhaeuser Company, working in various positions.
Georgia-Pacific stocks had dropped 42 percent in 2002, and the company was nearly $12 billion in debt, in large part because of the Fort James acquisition.
Chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Georgia-Pacific Corporation
In the 1950s Correll's family owned a men's store in Brunswick, Georgia. When he was just 12, Correll and his mother were forced to take over the business when his father suddenly passed away.
Chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Georgia-Pacific Corporation