Waste Management, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management services in North America. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides collection, transfer, recycling and resource recovery, and disposal services. It is also a leading developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the United States. The company’s customers include residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers throughout North America.
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FBR Capital Markets focuses its banking, advisory, trading and research efforts in seven broad industry sectors including consumer, diversified industrials, energy & natural resources, financial institutions, insurance, real estate and technology, media & telecom. With our headquarters in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, our Washington Policy Analysis group offers clients a comprehensive overview of national economic trends along with a unique perspective on the impact that legislation and regulation will have on industry sectors and individual companies.

With a substantial team of brokers, traders and sales traders in Washington, New York, Boston and London, FBR Capital Markets is, as of December 2008, a market-maker or trader in 980 securities and provided independent research on more than 380 companies representing 22% of the S&P 500 by market capitalization.

On the asset management side of our business, FBR Capital Markets’ registered investment subsidiaries provide clients with a range of investment choices that includes a family of mutual funds*, hedge funds and funds of funds.
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Poydras started in 1990 with the purchase of The Seven-Up / Royal Crown Bottling Company of Louisiana, Inc. This business distributed various non-alcoholic beverages covering 23 parishes (or counties) in southeast Louisiana. In September 1992, a Joint Venture was formed and this business was merged with the Pepsi-Cola Bottling operations doing business in the same geographic territory. In April 1995, Miller Brands of Greater New Orleans was purchased from the Miller Brewing Company by the Joint Venture which later expanded its distribution of malt beverages with the acquisition of two other Miller distributorships in southeast Louisiana. The brands of Heineken USA were added in February 1996 when Heineken USA aligned its Louisiana distribution network with the Miller beer wholesalers throughout the state. In January 2001, the Joint Venture was dissolved and Poydras received 100% of the beer business. Poydras operated the beer business as a fully owned subsidiary named Crescent Distributing, LLC. (“Crescent”) until October 2001.


On October 1, 2001, Crown merged into Crescent in exchange for a 50% ownership interest. The Company’s name was immediately changed to Crescent Crown Distributing, LLC (“Crescent Crown”). In February 2004, Crescent Crown tripled its size with the purchase of certain assets of Pearce Beverage, LLC, a beer distributorship located in Phoenix, Arizona, distributing Brands supplied by Miller Brewing Company, Coors Brewing Company, Barton Beers Ltd., Labatt USA LLC, Heineken USA Incorporated and others. In February 2005, Louisiana Beer Company, Inc. the Miller Brewing Company and Heineken USA beer distributorship serving Napoleonville and Thibodaux Louisiana was acquired. An acquisition in April 2005 of the Louisiana distributorships owned by Clark Distributing Company Louisiana, Inc. (formerly Quality Brands, Inc.) located in Lafayette and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, substantially expanded Crescent Crown Distributing’s Louisiana operations.
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