United Coal Company

United Coal Company
Industry	Coal mining
Founded	1970
Headquarters	Johnson City, Tennessee, United States
Key people	John Schroder (President & CEO)
Parent	Metinvest
Website	www.unitedcoal.com

United Coal Company (UCC), a coal mining company headquartered in Blountville, Tennessee, is a producer of high grade metallurgical coals. It has operations in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

History

Foundation

In 1970, Jim McGlothlin (a legal resident of Naples, Florida), along with his father Woodrow W. McGlothlin (who started the Diamond Smokeless Coal Co. in the mid-1950s) and five other investors, founded United Coal Company in Grundy, Virginia. McGlothlin first sold UCC in 1997 and later repurchased the company in 2004. The McGlothlins also founded The McGlothlin Foundation, which funds a variety of education-related causes in Southwest Virginia and The United Company Charitable Foundation.

Ownership changes

In 2006, former King Pharmaceuticals executives John M. Gregory and Joseph "Joe" Gregory invested in the company. The Gregory brothers are its first investors outside the McGlothlin family.^[1]

During April, 2009 Ukrainian business group Metinvest, controlled by Rinat Akhmetov, purchased the company for an estimated $1 billion.^[2]^[3] In August 2009, United Coal Company moved into its new corporate headquarters at 110 Sprint Drive in Blountville, Tennessee. A staff of thirty four employees work out of the Blountville UCC office, which combines all corporate activities and executives in one location, including legal counsel, risk management, accounting, purchasing, information technology, human resources and sales – departments previously located in Teays Valley, West Virginia, and Bristol, Virginia.^[4]

Holdings

Carter Roag Coal Company
Sapphire Coal Company
Pocahontas Coal Company
Wellmore Coal Company

References

^ PRN Newswire. "United Coal Company Has New Investors".
^ Financial Times: Ukraine oligarch buy US coal group
^ http://ucc.metinvestholding.com/en/activity/facilities "United Coal Company: Our Facilities". Metinvest.
^ http://ucc.metinvestholding.com/en/activity/facilities "United Coal Company: Our Facilities". Metinvest.

External links

[1] PRN Newswire. "United Coal Company Has New Investors".

[2] Financial Times: Ukraine oligarch buy US coal group

[3] ttp://ucc.metinvestholding.com/en/activity/facilities "United Coal Company: Our Facilities". Metinvest.

[4] ttp://ucc.metinvestholding.com/en/activity/facilities "United Coal Company: Our Facilities". Metinvest.

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