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Article: Red metals resiliency.(MCN Case Study: Farmer's Copper Ltd.)(Company overview)
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- Metal Center News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Farmer's Copper has prospered through disasters both economic and natural to become one of country's largest distributors of copper and brass.
* Quick Facts
Whether it's an oil crash or a violent storm, Farmer's Copper Ltd. has weathered the worst.
In the 1980s, shortly after Farmer's Copper was founded in Galveston, Texas, the Houston-area economy suffered a tremendous blow when the bottom fell out of the oil market. Bankruptcies and closures followed for many of Farmer's neighbors, but the family-owned copper business didn't succumb to the same fate.
"When we started the business, things were moving along pretty well. Then ...
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Article: FARMER RE-ELECTED CBSA PRESIDENT.
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...Bruce Farmer Sr., president of Farmers' Copper and Industrial Supply, Galveston, Texas, was reelected to a second term as president of the Copper and Brass Servicenter ...
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