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Gulf Coast Pre-Stress: longer and stronger bridge components.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-OCT-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1211 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Gulf Coast Pre-Stress: longer and stronger bridge components.(Focus: private companies)

Article Excerpt
PASS CHRISTIAN -- Gulf Coast PreStress Inc. (GCP) has won the Harrison County Economic Excellence Award for "Outstanding Industrial Business." Again. The winner in 2004 has also received the award in several past years, reflecting a long list of civic, service and humanitarian involvement by its employees.

One of the things high on the list to achieve the award is community investment. And GCP is doing that by not only continuing to invest in their business, but also by having employees involved in volunteering for programs such as the Gulfport Exchange Club, the Gulf Coast Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse, the Long Beach Jaycees, the YMCA and the United Way.

The company got its start in 1969 working on the Jourdan River bridge. L&A Contractors of Hathesburg created Gulf Coast Pre-Stress Inc. of

Pass Christian to make bridge components that could be barged by water to the site.

"Harrison County had a new industrial park, and L&A set up a plant to make the pre-stress concrete right here," said Max Williams, vice president of sales for GCP. "One...

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