Southern Star Concrete, Inc. or simply Southern Star is a
concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and is the most wid ...
supply business headquartered in
Irving, Texas. Southern Star is owned by
Cementos Argos S.A., the largest cement producer in
Colombia,
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
. Cementos Argos is subsidiary of
Inversiones Argos, which in turn belongs to a larger conglomerate called
Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño based in
Medellín, Colombia.
Argos acquired full ownership of Southern Star Concrete in November 2005 in a purchase agreement with the former owners, Texas Growth Fund and
Austin Ventures
Austin Ventures (AV) is a private equity firm focused on venture capital and growth equity investments in business services and supply chain, financial services, new media, Internet, and information services companies nationally with a focus o ...
, both based in Austin, Texas.
In 2019, Southern Star sold their Arkansas assets to SRM Concrete, a privately-owned materials supply company based out of Nashville, Tennessee.
Then in 2021, Argos sold the Dallas/Fort Worth portion of Southern Star to SRM Concrete.
Argos currently only operates the Houston area Southern Star locations.
External links
Southern Star official website
Building materials companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Irving, Texas