1801 headquarters moss norway key people terje haglund chair per a. lilleng per c. kl vstad revenue nok 3.4 billion number of employees 1 595 subsidiaries peterson packaging peterson linerboard website www.peterson.no peterson s pulp dumpfill at the main factory in moss norway . peterson as is an industrial corporation based in moss norway . until 2006 it was known as m. peterson & s n. contents 1 history 2 structure 3 logo 4 references history edit it traces its roots to a company founded in 1801 by danish born merchant momme peterson 1771 1835 . originally a small general store with various groceries and manufactured goods he later opened a spinning mill . in 1828 the company took the name m. peterson & s n. peterson also expanded to trade with timber 1 and from 1848 the building and owning of ships . 2 in 1875 it bought moss jernverk which had had a good location . having combined timber and shipping in 1883 the company left the shipping business under the leadership of theodor peterson grandson of the founder . 2 instead the company ventured in production of cellulose sulfate with the opening of the factory moss cellulosefabrik . from 1898 paper was also produced . hans blom peterson a descendant of momme peterson served as ceo from 1901 to 1954 and concentrated on developing this part of the company . he also started production of paper sacks . 1 though blom peterson died in 1954 the company remained family owned ; in 1963 another descendant ralph mollatt took over the leadership . 3 together with his brother erik he gradually shunted the company towards the packaging business . 2 in their period m. peterson & s n bought several entities within the paper industry including sarpsborg papp 1961 norsk papiremballage 1963 polycoat 1964 greaker industrier 1979 and ranheim papirfabrikk 1983 . 1 erik mollatt was ceo from 1983 to 2002 . 4 in 2001 the unit peterson scanproof a successor of greaker industrier was split from m. peterson & s n to form a company of its own nordic paper . m. peterson & s n still owned nordic paper albeit jointly with norske skogindustrier but sold it in 2006 . 5 6 in the same year m. peterson & s n was bought in its entirety by investors including local businesspeople as well as the forest owners association at skog . at the same time the name was changed from m. peterson & s n to just peterson . 1 2 structure edit in 1989 a new corporate model was introduced with the ten individual companies grouped under one umbrella m. peterson & s n still family owned . various transactions between 1998 and 2001 including the selling of peterson scanproof and the acquiring of the solid board division of upm kymmene 2 left a corporate structure with m. peterson & s n as the parent and peterson packaging and peterson linerboard as branches . peterson packaging is further subdivided into peterson packaging oy and peterson emballasje as the discinction between the two being that the latter operates in norway while the former operates abroad . 7 since the peterson name was introduced in all sub companies in 1992 2 each production unit is named according to its location and field . for instance the factory formerly known as sarpsborg papp is formally named peterson emballasje as sarpsborg . 8 in addition to factories in several countries the company operates numerous sales offices spread around europe . 1 8 logo edit the original company logo was based on the violet . in 1930 the current elephant theme was introduced . it fell into disuse in the 1970s but made its return in 1984 . the elephant body forms the letters m o s s in reference to the company s foundation city . the object carried by the elephant is not a tree trunk but a roll of paper fresh off the mill . 9 references edit a b c d e peterson & s n m. . store norske leksikon . kunnskapsforlaget . 2007 . a b c d e f history of peterson as . peterson as . retrieved 19 january 2009 . mollatt ralph . store norske leksikon . kunnskapsforlaget . 2007 . mollatt james momme erik . store norske leksikon . kunnskapsforlaget . 2007 . greaker cellulosefabrik . store norske leksikon . kunnskapsforlaget . 2007 . nordic paper as . store norske leksikon . kunnskapsforlaget . 2007 . organization . peterson as . retrieved 19 january 2009 . a b about us . peterson as . retrieved 19 january 2009 . historikk in norwegian . peterson emballasje . retrieved 18 january 2009 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title peterson company & oldid 731314353 categories packaging companiescompanies established in 18011801 establishments in norwaymanufacturing companies of norwayshipping companies of norwaypulp and paper companies of norwaycompanies based in stfoldhidden categories cs1 norwegian language sources no use dmy dates from september 2010 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 24 july 2016 at 15 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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