Report Concerning the Manufacture, Distribution and Sale of Paperboard Shipping Containers and Related Products

Ottawa: Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, Department of Justice, 1962. Card Covers. Very Good. RTPC No. 19. xxxiii, 684 p. 25 cm. 26 tables. Grey card covers with black print. Notation in black marker on front cover and spine. Combines Investigation Act. Topics: the container board and shipping container industries; post-war organization of the industry; instruments and practices under Container Statistics Limited; price increases in post-war period; apparent exceptions to Container Statistics Limited's system; restrictions in the board market; attitudes toward product innovation; profitability of the shipping container industry; survey of industry practices in 1959; complaints of Okanagan Packaging; Bathurst's acquisition of shipping containers, Kraft containers, Canadian Wirebound, Norwood, a minority stock interest in Maritime; acquisition of Martin-Hewitt by Hinde & Dauch; Hinde & Dauch's acquisition of Corrugated Paper Box; St. Lawrence's acquisition of Hinde & Dauch; Pacific Mills' acquisition of Canadian Boxes; Martin Paper's acquisition of Canadian Western Box; Powell River's acquisition of Martin Paper and sale of half interest to Macmillan & Bloedel; Canadian International Paper Company's acquisition of Hygrade; summary; recommendations; appendices.