Vulcan Materials Company Elects Directors
11 Dezember 2009 - 7:41PM
PR Newswire (US)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vulcan
Materials Company (NYSE:VMC) announced today that Kathleen
Wilson-Thompson (52) and James T. Prokopanko (56) have been elected
directors of the Company. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090710/CL44887LOGO ) Ms.
Wilson-Thompson is currently senior vice president, global human
resources for the Kellogg Company. She joined Kellogg in 1992 as a
senior attorney and has served in her current position since 2005.
In November, Walgreens, the nation's largest drugstore chain with a
market capitalization of approximately $38 billion, announced that
Ms. Wilson-Thompson will join that company in January 2010 as
senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Ms.
Wilson-Thompson was named by Black Enterprise magazine in 2009 as
one of its "Top 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America."
She serves on the NAACP Special Contributions Fund Board of
Trustees. Mr. Prokopanko is president and chief executive officer
of The Mosaic Company, one of the world's leading producers of
concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. Mosaic has a
market capitalization of approximately $27 billion. Prior to his
election to his current position in 2007, Mr. Prokopanko was
Mosaic's executive vice president and chief operating officer. Mr.
Prokopanko has been a director of The Mosaic Company since 2004.
"We are very pleased that Kathleen Wilson-Thompson and Jim
Prokopanko have agreed to join Vulcan's board," said Don James,
chairman and chief executive officer of Vulcan Materials Company.
"Kathleen and Jim are outstanding and experienced leaders making
significant contributions to the success of large, dynamic,
publicly traded companies. We look forward to working with them in
the years ahead and to their contributions as members of our
board." With the addition of Ms. Wilson-Thompson and Mr.
Prokopanko, Vulcan's twelve-member board consists of eleven outside
directors. Vulcan Materials Company, a member of the S&P 500
index, is the nation's foremost producer of construction aggregates
and a major producer of other construction materials. For
additional information see http://www.vulcanmaterials.com/.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090710/CL44887LOGODATASOURCE:
Vulcan Materials Company CONTACT: Investors: Mark Warren,
+1-205-298-3220, Media: David Donaldson, +1-205-298-3220 Web Site:
http://www.vulcanmaterials.com/
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