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Royal J. Coulter, President and CEO of Coulter Companies, Inc. (CCI) leads a diverse consolidated group of operating companies with $95M in annualized revenues, 550 plus employees, and a territory which spans many of the mid-western states. Royal is the third generation to manage this family-owned business founded by his grandfather, John Coulter, as a one-truck garbage service in 1928. During his thirty-seven years at the helm, Coulter Companies, Inc. has grown from a solid waste company of 40 employees to a highly diverse environmental services company of 550 employees. Coulter Companies, Inc. is the parent company of eighteen different companies that provide hazardous waste, solid waste, wastewater, analysis, engineering, consulting, remediation, construction and recycling services to a broad array of clients. The most recognized subsidiaries of Coulter Companies, Inc. are Peoria Disposal Company (PDC) and Area Disposal Service, Inc., which together account for four landfills, three transfer stations, and ten transportation terminals supporting a fleet of more than 300 trucks. Important to the local Peoria economy, Coulter Companies, Inc. owns more than 75 pieces of Caterpillar heavy equipment, and most of its fleet is powered by Caterpillar engines.