{"id":23373,"date":"2016-10-22T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=23373"},"modified":"2016-10-22T07:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:34:44","slug":"family-owned-alabama-company-buys-cougar-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/22\/family-owned-alabama-company-buys-cougar-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Family-Owned Alabama Company Buys Cougar Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Clarksville-MontgomeryClarksville, TN <\/strong> \u2013 Rusken Packaging, Inc. announces the purchase of Clarksville-owned Cougar Packaging. All employees will continue with the new company, and former Cougar owners Gerri and Larry Wallace will continue in their roles for six months to ensure a smooth transition.<\/p>\n

Rusken Packaging, a private, family-owned, $130 million company, manufactures corrugated cardboard boxes used for shipping.<\/p>\n

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Former Cougar Packaging owners Gerri and Larry Wallace.<\/p><\/div>\n

The company is headquartered in Cullman, AL, with additional plants in Harrisburg, AR, Oxford, AL, and Jackson, TN, and employs 450.<\/p>\n

With a customer base from South Carolina to Texas, and Kentucky to Florida, Rusken Vice President Joey Jackson says Clarksville is a \u201cperfect fit\u201d for their expansion plans. \u201cWe\u2019ve never had a facility near the Kentucky\/Illinois region \u2013 it\u2019s a strategic move for us. We\u2019re very excited to be in Clarksville and look forward to becoming part of the community and growing the business there.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Rusken was looking to expand in the region, they learned that brother and sister owners of Cougar, Gerri and Larry Wallace, were reaching retirement age.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe timing was good for everyone, and things fell into place quickly,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cMost family-owned businesses have similar core values, which made everyone more comfortable. With that foundation, this became a mutually beneficial arrangement for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate the investment that Rusken is making in Clarksville-Montgomery County and their plans to grow here. We look forward to having them as new corporate citizens,\u201d said Industrial Development Board Chairman Billy Atkins.<\/p>\n

Cougar Packaging was founded in Clarksville in 1977 and has 22 full-time employees. The plant is located at 2722 Union Hall Road.<\/p>\n

About the Industrial Development Board<\/h3>\n

The Industrial Development Board was established in 1963 to maintain and increase employment opportunities by recruiting companies to locate in Clarksville-Montgomery County. The organization is governed by 15 board of director members, nine of which are voting members and are appointed by Montgomery County Commission; six are ex-officio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN \u2013 Rusken Packaging, Inc. announces the purchase of Clarksville-owned Cougar Packaging. All employees will continue with the new company, and former Cougar owners Gerri and Larry Wallace will continue in their roles for six months to ensure a smooth transition. Rusken Packaging, a private, family-owned, $130 million company, manufactures corrugated cardboard boxes used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[15020,108,825,12399,1750,29300,29303,29301,29304,5398,29306,29302,29305,29299,29307],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-64Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23374,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions\/23374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}