Moving Metal

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FORGING A GREATER COMPANY 1995-2003

“We would like to say ‘welcome’ to all Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. shareholders,” Chairman Bill Gimbel and President and CEO Joe Crider wrote warmly in Reliance’s first annual report as a public company, issued in March 1995. New shareholders no doubt reciprocated the sentiment: the company that they had bought into had turned in a banner year, netting $14.4 million in income—fifty-six percent more than in 1993.

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