Southern Star Concrete
Southern Star Concrete, Inc. or simply Southern Star is a concrete supply business headquartered in Irving, Texas. Southern Star is owned by Compañía de Cemento Argos, S.A. and Cementos del Caribe, S.A., both of which are based in Colombia, South America. Both companies are subsidaries of Inversiones Argos, which in turn belongs to a larger conglomerate called Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño based in Medellin, Colombia.
Southern Star is the largest ready-mixed concrete supplier in Texas and Arkansas, and also one of the largest ready-mix companies in the United States. It has about four dozen concrete plants in Little Rock, Arkansas, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, Texas.