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49. Southern Company

Company Info

State or country

Georgia

Geographical Location

Americas

Assets

$55,032 mil

Revenues

$17,456 mil

Profits

$2,040 mil

Return on invested
capital (ROIC)

3 yr CGR % Revenues

Company data as of 6/01/2011 provided by S&P Capital IQ

Company Snapshot

Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, operates as a utility company that provides electric service in the southeastern United States. The company generates, transmits, and distributes electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources.

It offers electric service primarily in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi; and serves approximately 4.4 million retail customers with approximately 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity.

Southern Company also constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets and sells electricity in the wholesale market.

Its transmission assets include 27,000 miles of transmission lines and 3,700 substations.

The company also provides digital wireless communications, such as push to talk, cellular service, text messaging, wireless Internet access, and wireless data in the southeast; and wholesale fiber optic solutions to telecommunication providers under the name Southern Telecom. Southern Company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Thomas A. Fanning, 53
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Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
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