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Weyerhaeuser Co.

5/24/2013, 2:47 AM ET
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Sector: Financial
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Industry: REIT - Industrial
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Country: United States

We are a forest products company that grows and harvests trees, builds homes and makes a range of forest products essential to everyday lives. Our goal is to do this safely, profitably and responsibly. We are committed to operate as a sustainable company in the 21st Century. We focus on increasing energy and resource efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing water consumption, conserving natural resources, and offering products that meet human needs with superior sustainability attributes. We operate with world class safety results, understand and address the needs of the communities in which we operate, and present ourselves transparently.

We have offices or operations in 10 countries and have customers worldwide. We manage 22 million acres of forests, and in 2009, we generated $5.5 billion in net sales from our continuing operations.

This portion of our Annual Report and Form 10-K provides detailed information about who we are, what we do and where we are headed. Unless otherwise specified, current information reported in this Form 10-K is as of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

We break out financial information such as revenues, earnings and assets by the business segments that form our company. We also discuss the development of our company and the geographic areas where we do business.

We report our financial results and condition in two groups:

•Forest Products — our forest products-based operations, principally the growing and harvesting of timber, the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products and corporate governance activities; and
•Real Estate — our real estate development and construction operations.

Throughout this Form 10-K, unless specified otherwise, references to “we,” “our,” “us” and “the company” refer to the consolidated company, including both Forest Products and Real Estate.

We meet the information-reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by filing periodic reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports and statements —information about our company’s business, financial results and other matters — are available at:
• the SEC Internet site — www.sec.gov;
• the SEC’s Public Conference Room, 100 F St. N.E., Washington, D.C., 20549, (800) SEC-0330; and
• our Internet site — www.weyerhaeuser.com.

When we file the information electronically with the SEC, it also is added to our Internet site.

We started out as Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, incorporated in the state of Washington in January 1900 when Frederick Weyerhaeuser and 15 partners bought 900,000 acres of timberland.

OUR BUSINESS SEGMENTS

In the Consolidated Results section of Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, you will find our overall performance results for our business segments:
• Timberlands;
• Wood Products;
• Cellulose Fibers;
• Real Estate;
• Corporate and Other;
• Fine Paper (divested in 2007); and
• Containerboard, Packaging and Recycling (sold in 2008).

Detailed financial information about our business segments and our geographic locations is in Note 2: Business Segments and Note 22: Geographic Areas in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, as well as in this section and in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

OUR EMPLOYEES

We have approximately 14,900 employees. This number includes:
• 13,450 employed by our corporate operations and forest products-based business segments in North America,
• 750 employed by our Real Estate segment and
• 700 employed by our operations outside of North America.

Of these employees, approximately 4,000 are members of unions covered by multi-year collective-bargaining agreements.