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Cottoning to 3PL business

Monday, April 23, 2012

Memphis-based Dunavant undergoes a radical transformation. By Chris Dupin Dunavant is one of the storied names of the cotton business, but a few years ago the Memphis-based company made a bold decision to exit the cotton trading business to concentrate on logistics. To get a sense of the magnitude of that decision, a little history is needed: In the late 1800s, former Civil War Col. William Pemberton Dunavant helped establish a railroad ...

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