Metro Atlanta's Fortune 1000 Companies

Asbury is one of the largest automobile retailers in the U.S., and currently operates 81 retail auto stores, encompassing 106 franchises for the sale and servicing of 37 different brands of American, European and Asian automobiles. The company offers customers an extensive range of automotive products and services, including new and used vehicle sales and related financing and insurance, vehicle maintenance and repair services, replacement parts and service contracts.

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Graphic Packaging is a leading provider of paperboard packaging solutions for a wide variety of products to food, beverage and other consumer products companies. The company is one of the largest producers of folding cartons and holds a leading market position in coated-recycled boxboard and specialty bag packaging.

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Wendy's/Arby's Group is the third largest quick-service restaurant company in the United States and is the franchisor of the Wendy's and Arby's restaurant systems. The company's combined restaurant systems include more than 10,000 restaurants in the United States and 24 countries and territories worldwide.

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Rock-Tenn is one of North America's leading manufacturers of paperboard, containerboard, consumer and corrugated packaging and merchandising displays. The company operates more than 90 facilities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Argentina.

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Georgia Gulf is a leading North American manufacturer and international marketer of two integrated chemical product lines, chlorovinyls and aromatics. The company's primary chlorovinyls products are chlorine, caustic soda, vinyl chloride monomer, vinyl resins and vinyl compounds, and their aromatics products are cumene, phenol and acetone.

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Exide Technologies is one of the world’s largest producers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. The company's four global business groups provide a comprehensive range of stored electrical energy products and services for industrial and transportation applications.

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AGL Resources is an energy services holding company whose principal business is the distribution of natural gas to more than 2.2 million customers in six states. The company is also engaged in retail natural gas marketing; natural gas asset management and related logistics activities; natural gas storage arbitrage and related activities; and the development and operation of high-deliverability natural gas storage assets.

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Equifax is one of the largest sources of consumer and commercial data. The company is one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the U.S. Equifax also offers fraud, portfolio management, compliance, bankruptcy, debt recovery, data breach, direct marketing and other services.

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Aaron's is the leader in lease ownership and specialty retailing of office furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances, and electronics with more than 1,700 company-operated and franchised stores in 48 states and Canada. There are two operating divisions of Aaron's: sales and lease ownership and manufacturing.

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BlueLinx is a leading distributor of building products in the United States. The company distributes products in two principal categories: structural products, which include plywood, oriented strand board, rebar and remesh, lumber and other wood products; and specialty products, which include roofing, insulation, specialty panels, moulding, engineered wood products, vinyl products, composite decking, and metal products.

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Global Payments processes billions of business and consumer transactions annually through their electronic information network. Organizations and consumers using Global Payments' electronic transaction processing services include: consumers, merchants, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), financial institutions, government agencies, utilities, healthcare providers and multi-national corporations.

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Carter's, Inc. is the largest branded marketer in the United States of apparel exclusively for babies and young children. Carter's markets its Carter's and OshKosh B'Gosh brands through more than 4,000 department and national chain stores and 351 Company-operated stores. The OshKosh B'Gosh brand is also sold in more than 50 countries worldwide. Carter's Child of Mine and Just One Year brands are available at Wal-Mart and Target, respectively. OshKosh B'Gosh's Genuine Kid's brand is sold at Target.

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Acuity Brands designs, produces, and distributes a broad array of indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures and related products and services for commercial and institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications for various markets throughout North America and select international markets. The company is one of the world's leading providers of lighting fixtures for new construction, renovation, and facility maintenance applications.

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