Fort James Corporation was an American pulp and paper company based in Deerfield, Illinois.

[3] Its products were sold under a variety of brand names, which included Brawny, Mardi Gras, and Quilted Northern.

[4][5] At the time of its acquisition, Fort James Corporation was the United States' largest manufacturer of commercial tissue.

[1][4] Fort Howard was headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and James River in Richmond, Virginia.

By 1999, Fort James was operating nine of the eleven largest 270-inch (22.5 ft; 6.9 m) wide tissue machines in the world.