Southern Star Concrete, Inc.
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Southern Star Concrete, Inc. or simply Southern Star is a concrete supply business headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is majority owned by the private equity firms, The Texas Growth Fund and Austin Ventures.
Southern Star was formerly owned by Compañía de Cemento Argos, S.A. and Cementos del Caribe, S.A., both of which are based in Colombia, South America.
Southern Star is the largest ready-mixed concrete supplier in Texas and Arkansas, and also one of the largest ready-mix companies in the United States. It has about four dozen concrete plants in Little Rock, Arkansas, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, Texas.
The motto for Midlothian, Texas is "DFW's Southern Star", an allusion to the city's relationship to the concrete industry in which concrete-related businesses, like Southern Star, compose a substantial portion of the business in the area.