(Crain's) -- Esmark Inc. has bought five steel suppliers, mostly in Illinois, rebuilding much of the business it sold to Russian steelmaker OAO Severstal in 2008. Esmark said Thursday it acquired ...

Steel industry consolidator Esmark Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired Homewood-based steel distributor North American Steel LLC. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the deal involved both cash ...

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. & MONCLOVA, COAHUILA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mr. Jim Bouchard, CEO and Chairman of Esmark, Inc., today announced that Esmark Steel Group has established Esmark Steel International, a ...

When Craig Bouchard injured his foot his junior year as an Illinois State University baseball scholarship athlete, he thought his major-league baseball career was over before it had even started. The ...

SEWICKLEY, Pa. & CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. & INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Esmark, Inc. and Esmark Steel Group today reaffirmed their support for the proposed merger between U.S. Steel and ...

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Esmark Steel Group, a subsidiary of Esmark, Inc., announced today that Don Macintyre, vice president and general manager, has been promoted to senior vice ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Wheeling-Pittsburgh Corp. surged 9% to $19.46 on Monday after Esmark Inc. said it plans to launch a proxy fight and takeover bid for the steel company. Chicago-based ...

Esmark Steel Group, a wholly owned steel services subsidiary of Esmark Inc., has completed the acquisitions of five steel service centers in Illinois and Ohio from OAO Severstal. Esmark Steel Group ...

“With more than 40 years of steel industry experience, and as a former executive and statutory representative of U.S. Steel, I have significant intimacy with the steel business in the U.S. and around ...

Donald P. Kelly, a master of the leveraged buyout, crafted deals worth billions of dollars to build the holding company Esmark, which had its roots in Swift & Co., and led the hostile takeover and ...