GEORGE HUNT WEYERHAEUSER Biography - Bussiness people and enterpreneurs

 
 

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GEORGE HUNT WEYERHAEUSER

  Name: George Hunt Weyerhaeuser                                                                       
  Born: 1926 Seattle, Washington, USA.                                                                 
                                                                                                         
  Lumber executive, born in Seattle, Washington, USA. He studied at the University of Yale,             
  and in 1949 joined the Tacoma-based Weyerhaeuser Company, the family lumber business,                 
  working for 12 years as a mill foreman and branch manager before joining the executive ranks in 1957. 
  Variously president, chief executive officer, and chairman (1966), he                                 
  rejuvenated the company through restructuring the company, extensively  marketing,                   
  diversifying  the  products, extensively and aggressive marketing.