How Alabama’s Only Billionaire "Yella Fella" Jimmy Rane Saved His Hometown | Forbes
Over the last half century, Jimmy Rane transformed his family’s backyard lumber treating plant into $1.8 billion (2021 sales) Great Southern Wood Preserving, the country’s biggest producer of pressure-treated lumber, while starring in the company’s commercials as his cowboy alter-ego “The Yella Fella”. He’s claimed a few other titles along the way: Alabama’s only billionaire, […]
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