Archive for the ‘Mississippi 100 Private Companies’ Category
KLLM Transport Services, LLC has spent the past three years in the top 15 of the Mississippi Business Journal’s Top 100 list. The company has done it by adapting and diversifying. Two years ago, KLLM entered the intermodal market, putting its refrigerated trailers onto railcars, which offers a cheaper way to move freight. Jim Richard, [...] [...]
Staplcotn President and CEO Meredith Allen has completed his first year leading the nation’s oldest cotton marketing cooperative which he says has been “Challenging, to say the least!” Allen, 59, took the reins of Staplcotn and Stapldiscount in September 2010, as Woods Eastland, with whom he had worked for more than 24 years, transitioned to [...] [...]
Back in the early 1990s in an effort to improve the Mississippi 100 ranking of the state’s most successful private companies, a Mississippi Business Journal staffer went to the Eudora Welty Library in Jackson looking for research material. When asked for a good resource of privately held companies in the state, the librarian smiled broadly [...] [...]
A diverse lineup of companies navigated their way into this year’s Mississippi 100 listing. Some took well-traveled routes to reach the list while others found somewhat less conventional ways to get there. However, they all shared an inhospitable economic climate that added gravity to each decision and step along the way. Some Mississippi companies cut [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: October 16,2011
Tags: Ergon, Ergon Inc., Greenwood, Howard Industries Inc., Irby, Irby Company, JACKSON, Laurel, Mississippi 100, Philadelphia, Staplcotn, Stuart C. Irby Co., The Yates Companies Inc, Yates
While the 2011 version of the Mississippi 100 has many new names, the top five revenue-producers remain unchanged from 2010. The “big five” in order are Ergon Inc. of Jackson, The Yates Companies Inc. of Philadelphia, Staplcotn of Greenwood, Howard Industries Inc. of Laurel and Irby Company of Jackson. The only change from last year [...] [...]
Every year new companies make the MBJ Top 100, and, for various reasons, others fall off. Two companies missing from the list this year are the Treutel Insurance Agency and the company formerly listed at Hudson Salvage Inc. The Treutel Insurance Agency of Bay St. Louis, which recently celebrated its 85th anniversary, was sold this [...] [...]
The 2011 Mississippi 100, the state’s only ranking of Mississippi private companies, is available now. Find out if the top five revenue producers from the 2010 list are the same. Also see which companies are making their first appearance on the list and which one’s made the biggest jumps. Flip through the digital version below: [...]
Doing what they’ve always done A look at Mississippi’s top five earning companies Oil, construction, lighting, electronics and cotton. These are the biggest industries in Mississippi for privately held companies, and you can read more about these across the nest several pages. The Top 5 revenue-producing companies have been doing what they do for a [...] [...]
$3.1 Billion (Last year No. 1) Headquartered in Jackson, Ergon Inc. and its subsidiaries of petroleum-related enterprises began in 1954 when its chairman, Leslie B. Lampton, founded Lampton Oil Company. Ergon started as a petroleum retailer with only two employees and has evolved into a network of market-leading companies employing nearly 3,000 people. The Mississippi [...] [...]
$1.3 Billion (Last year No. 2) William Gully Yates and William Gully Yates Jr. of Philadelphia, Miss., founded W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company in 1963. That company has grown into a business with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The Yates Companies Inc. comprises the original construction division and five subsidiaries: > Blaine [...] [...]
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