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Article: Truman Arnold Pole Vaults to Top of Largest Private Companies List.(Brief Article)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- April 2, 2001
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THIS IS EMBARRASSING: THE largest privately owned company on Arkansas Business' annual list isn't even in Arkansas.
That's the hazard of treating stateline-straddling Texarkana as a single city and claiming all of it as an integral part of the Arkansas economy.
No. 1 on the list of the 75 largest private companies is Truman Arnold Cos., which zoomed up from from No. 8 last year with a 130 percent increase in revenue, the criterion used for this ranking.
With sales of $1.3 billion in 2000, the wholesaler of refined petroleum products and provider of aviation services is the only private company in Arkansas whose revenue is known or estimated to ...