[tps_title]Jimmy Rane, President and CEO, Great Southern Wood Preserving[/tps_title]
The Yella Fella is running a genuine international business powerhouse out of Abbeville, Alabama. Great Southern Wood is the nation’s largest producer and distributor of pressure-treated lumber products. If Rane had been born in an earlier generation, he would have fit in right alongside the titans of industry who quite literally built America — men like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan.
When it comes to politics, Rane was supporting Alabama Republicans long before they were in power, and was a major backer of the 2010 GOP plan to take control of state government for the first time in 136 years. He remains one of the closest allies of House Speaker Mike Hubbard and is among the first people with whom any ambitious politician tries to build a relationship.
He is currently serving in his second term as President Pro Tem of the Auburn Board of Trustees. Additionally, his annual Jimmy Rane Foundation charity event attracts a who’s who of business heavyweights and pro sports icons. That makes him one of the few individuals whose influence touches Alabama’s “big three” — politics, business and sports.
Rane is Alabama’s entrepreneur — a success story like no other.
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