Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE: WCN)

35 Iron Point Circle, Ste. 200
Folsom, CA 95630 (Map)
Phone: 916-608-8200
Fax: 916-351-0249
http://www.wasteconnections.com

Overview

How The Waste Was Won (with apologies to John Ford) would tell how Waste Connections has come to provide solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services to about 2 million commercial, industrial, and residential customers in 29 states. The integrated solid waste services company does business mainly in smaller markets. It operates primarily in the West, but also in the Midwest and South. Waste Connections owns or operates about 135 solid waste collection operations, 54 transfer stations, 44 landfills, and another 39 recycling facilities. Along with its garbage operations, Waste Connections offers intermodal logistics services in the Pacific Northwest at six locations.

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Key financials for Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE: WCN)

Company Type Public (NYSE: WCN)
Fiscal Year-End December
2010 Sales (mil.) £853.1
1-Year Sales Growth 10.8%
2010 Net Income (mil.) £87.3
1-Year Net Income Growth 23.0%
2010 Employees 5,510
1-Year Employee Growth 1.9%
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Key people and executives for Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE: WCN)

Chairman and CEO Ronald J. (Ron) Mittelstaedt
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President Steven F. (Steve) Bouck
EVP and COO Darrell W. Chambliss
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