Koch Industries is the second-largest privately held company in the US. The company is controlled by the Koch brothers, Charles and David, who are also enormously active in American politics. The Koch brothers spend hundreds of millions of dollars to influence laws and campaigns–favoring Republican, Libertarian and Tea Party candidates.
It’s hard to overstate the market penetration of Koch commercial interests. Including subsidiaries like Invista and Georgia-Pacific, Koch Industries employs nearly 70,000 people around the world. Koch markets products from petroleum and fertilizer to toilet paper, carpet, and greeting cards. Here are some of the more common products in the Koch brothers’ consumer goods portfolio:
-American Greetings greeting cards
-Angel Soft toilet tissue
-Brawny paper towels
-COOLMAX® Fabric
-DACRON® Fiberfill
-Dixie cups and other Dixie products
-Georgia-Pacific’s enMotion paper towel dispenser
-Insulair cups
-LYCRA® Fiber
-Mardis Gras napkins
-Perfect Touch cups, paper products
-Quilted Northern
-Sparkle paper towels
-STAINMASTER® Carpet
-Spectrum paper
-Vanity Fair napkins and paper towels
