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Great Dane Limited Partnership
 PROFILE
Great Dane is really going places -- the company is one of the largest manufacturers of truck trailers in North America. Great Dane makes refrigerated (reefer) and freight vans and platform trailers. The company has nine manufacturing plants in the US and sales, parts, and service centers across the US, Canada, Mexico, and South America. It also sells used trailers. Great Dane is a unit of Chicago-based investment group CC Industries, which is controlled by the Henry Crown family. The company started in 1900 as a maker of steel products and switched to trailer making in 1931.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
1999 Sales (mil.): 1,100.00
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 10.0%
Employees: 4,000
Revenue per employee: $275,000.00

 KEY PEOPLE
• C. F. Hammond
    CEO
• Tom Horan
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
602 E. Lathrop Ave.
Savannah, GA 31402
US
Phone: 912-644-2100
Fax: 912-644-2166
Online: Web Site

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