Back from the brink: support of members, employees and suppliers vital to Southern States' turn-around effort.

From: Rural Cooperatives | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: Erickson, Jim | Copyright information

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The day in late September 2002 began routinely enough for Tom Scribner, then the executive vice president and chief merchandising officer at Southern States Cooperative. Directors of the regional farm supply co-op were at the corporate office in Richmond, Va., for a regular board meeting, one where Scribner had given a report at the board's afternoon session the preceding day.

Before the new day in early fall ended, however, the board ha...

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