Article: Red metals resiliency.(MCN Case Study: Farmer's Copper Ltd.)(Company overview)

Farmer's Copper has prospered through disasters both economic and natural to become one of country's largest distributors of copper and brass.

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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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