Ken Shields

The British Columbia Lumber Trade Council is a private company headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The firm operates as a trade association.

Raymond James Ltd. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm was founded in 1962 and they are ultimately owned by Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a Florida-based diversified holding company that provides financial services to individuals, corporations and municipalities. Raymond James provides a full array of investment services to their retail and institutional clients. Their value-added approach, using macro research to compliment fundamental research is focused on four main industry sectors including industrials, consumer, real estate, natural resources and technology. In addition to covering many small- to mid-cap growth-oriented companies, their research team follows many of the major players in their covered sectors and supplements this full range of company-focused research with a variety of industry analyses.

Mercer's Core Purpose: Provider of fiber, renewable energy and chemicals, from sustainable sources, for essential human needs. Mercer is one of the world's largest producers of NBSK market pulp, by capacity. Producing approximately 1.525 ADMT annually between our three mills, Mercer serves customers in Asia, Europe and, North America. With some of the most modern facilities in the world, Mercer's mills in Canada and Germany have established a reputation for superior product, consistent quality and outstanding service. Our modern facilities mean low capital requirements, high efficiency, state-of-the-art environmental compliance and net energy producers.