Business Strategy. Deep Pockets, Strategy Make MarketerbFastest-Growing Company bin United States
✍ Scribed by Willett, Robert E.
- Book ID
- 102219107
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Weight
- 235 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0743-5665
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✦ Synopsis
In December 1988, Znc. magazine said that American Central Gas Companies of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the fastest-growing company in the United States. It may or may not be-the magazine's list must reflect the amount companies grew the previous year, because of reporting delays. Moreover, reportedly companies must approach Znc. with their data; Znc. does not approach the companies. At any rate, American Central is continuing to grow.
After a start in 1983 with sales of $1 13,000, said Kevin J. Sullivan, American Central's thirty-five-year-old president (who in 1987 was a mere thirty-three): "[Sales] went up to $93 million in '87 and probably.. . will be about $350 million [for 1988 when these figures are final].
"We were formed in late, late '83, and that's one of the reasons our sales numbers [were] so low of gas in '83. And currently we're up to roughly 1 lOemployees, and we have offices in Tulsa [Oklahoma], D a l l a s ,