type private industry pulp paper and forest products founded 1886 new york city headquarters purchase new york united states key people kenneth l. wallach executive chairman andrew wallach president and ceo revenue 5.1 billion usd 2015 estimate number of employees 2 500 website www.cng inc.com central national gottesman inc. cng is one of the world s largest distributors of pulp paper packaging tissue newsprint and plywood . the company employs 2 500 in more than 150 locations in 48 cities across north america and in 26 countries around the world including 43 warehouses and 53 retail stores . cng operates through three divisions the central national division a global distributor of pulp paper newsprint packaging tissue and plywood ; the north american distribution division comprising four regional paper distributors which supply a range of paper products to large and mid sized commercial printers and corporate end users ; and the north american publication division which supplies paper to the book magazine catalogue retail and direct mail industry . with 2014 revenues of 4.7 billion forbes ranked cng 87th in its annual list of the largest private companies 1 and crains new york business listed cng as the 11th largest private company in the new york region . 2 contents 1 history 2 expansion 3 leadership 4 references history edit founded in new york city in 1886 as m. gottesman & company the firm was substantially expanded under his son d.s. gottesman in the first half of the 20th century . 3 the company has continued to grow both organically and through acquisition . in 1984 cng entered the paper distribution business in the northeast and mid atlantic regions of united states through the acquisition of lindenmeyr paper corporation 4 followed by d.f. munroe company in 1988 5 communication paper corporation in 1991 and perkins & squier company in 1998 . 6 expansion edit cng s paper distribution business expanded its geographical footprint in the next decade opening branches in new locations richmond chicago milwaukee and durham nc as well acquiring several paper distributors in existing markets the hudson city division of frank parsons inc. in 2009 ; 7 the frank parsons fine paper division in 2010 ; 8 hudson valley paper company in 2011 ; 9 and both domtar corporation s ariva paper merchant business 10 and bradner central s paper distribution business in 2013 . 11 geographic expansion continued with the purchase of spicers paper inc. and kelly paper on the west coast in 2012 . 12 in 2015 cng entered the canadian paper distribution market with the acquisition of spicers canada . 13 other areas of cng continued to expand as well including the 2013 acquisition of a.t. clayton a leading distributor of paper for the magazine catalogue and direct mail segment . 14 cng entered the plywood trading business in 2014 through the purchase of hudson trading and the north american operations of the danish forest products company dhl . leadership edit the company was run from 1956 to 1979 by ira d. wallach son in law of d.s. gottesman . his son james g. wallach who launched the company s expansion into the north american paper distribution business was ceo from 1979 until his death in 1998 . 15 another son kenneth l. wallach became ceo in 1998 leading the company through a 17 year period of significant geographic and financial growth . 16 he assumed the position of executive chairman in 2015 . andrew m. wallach son of james g. wallach a member of the fifth generation of the founding family was named ceo in january 2015 . 17 references edit http www.forbes.com companies central national gottesman http www.crainsnewyork.com data lists business lists details 30 2706842 http www.cng inc.com who we are history http www.nytimes.com 1984 04 13 business briefs 120164.html http socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu ark 99166 w69k9hsd http nichecritique.com central national gottesman supplying world paper http www.prnewswire.com news releases central national gottesman acquires frank parsonss fine paper division 104341338.html http www.naylornetwork.com ppi otw articles aid 128474 & issueid 21744 http www.goprintandpromo.com article central national gottesman acquires hudson valley paper company http www.theglobeandmail.com report on business domtar selling its us ariva paper operations article13339026 http bigpicture.net content central national gottesman acquire assets bradner central http www.paperage.com 2012news 06 25 2012cng spicers kelly paper.html http www.printcan.com news 2015 201502109 22 . shtml http spicers.com d pr cng acquires at clayton.pdf http www.nytimes.com 1998 06 23 business james g wallach 55 head of paper company.html crains newyork business book of lists 2005 shows cng revenues at 2.05 b compared to 2015 revenues at 5.1 b. http www.cng inc.com who we are leadership retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title central national gottesman & oldid 740581094 categories pulp and paper companies of the united statescompanies established in 1886 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 21 september 2016 at 23 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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