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In 1970, his wife's parents were killed in an automobile accident, leaving behind a small non-operational lumber treatment plant on the brink of bankruptcy. [3] [5] [2] Unable to sell the plant, Rane returned to his hometown to manage it.
5 Απρ 2023 · Rane took over what became Great Southern in 1970, when the owners—his first wife’s parents—died in a car crash. It wasn’t much: a near-bankrupt backyard lumber treating plant with just ...
26 Απρ 2023 · Jimmy Rane, the 76-year-old founder and CEO of Great Southern Wood Preserving, a lumber treating outfit, asks with a chuckle, picking up an axe in his Abbeville, Alabama, office and pointing at...
7 Νοε 2023 · It’s a story that began with tragedy when the death of Rane’s in-laws in 1970 forced Rane to take over the family business. ”We were always robbing Peter to pay Paul, always. We never, ever had any extra money,” Rane said.
Jimmy Rane is the dynamic President and CEO of Great Southern Wood Preserving, widely recognized as the “Yella Fella” from his company’s advertisements. He has become an icon in the lumber industry and a prominent figure in the American Southeast.
12 Μαΐ 2023 · In 1970, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) took over a tiny treated-lumber business in Abbeville, Alabama, that was hovering near bankruptcy. Its owners, Rane's in-laws, had died suddenly in a car accident.
6 Μαρ 2012 · In 1970, a traffic accident changed the course of his life. His wife’s parents were killed in the accident, leaving as heirs Rane’s wife and her brother. “My wife’s father was a farmer in Abbeville, and he had a lot of land, ” Rane says.
