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Hanson
built 606 days ago
Despite the takeover of Eastern Group, it was becoming increasingly apparent that Hanson's days as a conglomerate were numbered. With sales exceeding $17 billion, only very large acquisitions could have any appreciable impact on the company's share price and profits--and there were few of these target companies out there. Furthermore, the trend of the 1990s was away from diversification and toward focusing on core businesses. This was particularly evident in the United States with the breakups of ITT Corp., AT&T Corp., and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Corp. Other factors that conspired to lead Hanson PLC in a new direction were the continued poor performance of the company's stock, the death of White in August 1995, and the legacy-mindedness of Hanson, who had announced that he would retire in 1997 at the age of 75.
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"Hanson is proud to be a part of Columbus' history and this new addition will help us grow along with the city," said Eric Wheeler, Hanson's Northeast region president. "Thanks to new technology and additional production space, this facility can now produce 400 tons of concrete products per production shift."
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In addition to the standard concrete products, Hanson has a range of premium concrete solutions for commercial, industrial and residential applications. Hanson is ... a leader in decorative concrete finishes with the Imagecrete decorative concrete range.
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Mr. Hanson joined Genstar as an Operating Partner in 2006 with more than 24 years of experience in the software industry and leads the firm's investments in Software and Software Services. Prior to joining Genstar, Mr. Hanson served as Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Chief of Staff for Siebel Systems, Inc., where he worked closely with the executive team to help the company return to growth in 2005. He was responsible for building the M&A function at Siebel and during his tenure the company made 17 acquisitions. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Visigenic Software, Inc., a company he helped build from a startup entity with no revenues, through its IPO and sale to Borland Software Corporation. He ... worked as a senior executive with other leading software companies, including Sybase, Inc., Macromedia, Inc., and Informix Software, Inc. Mr. Hanson is a graduate of Santa Clara University and received his MBA degree from Golden Gate University.
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John Hanson received an English education, and was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates nearly every year from 1757 until 1781. He moved to Frederick County in 1773 and was an energetic patriot, who in 1775 became treasurer of the county. About that time he was commissioned by the Maryland convention to establish a gun-lock factory at Frederick.
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Hanson's work has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal, World Design Exposition in Nagoya, Japan, and in numerous other museums and galleries around the world. A traveling exhibition of Hanson's sculptures organized by the Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art on December 17, 1998.
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