Mixed Reviews: The 20th annual PwC Global Forest Conference shared good and bad news

摘要

Vancouver's 2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Annual Global Conference on the Forest and Paper Industry, set during one of the most disastrous eras of Canada's forest industry, was crowded with delegates like a blazing tower full of trapped occupants.The conference room at the Fairmont Vancouver had almost full seating on May 8, and press crammed onto a long table at the room's rear or perched on its raised dais. All came to hear the conference message - strategies for survival. The conference, though, had a more subtle theme. / Are large companies, practicing forestry to generate the most shareholder equity, really that great for the Canadian economy?