WMI cuts ties with biggest brokerage.(Waste Management Inc.)(Brief Article)
Waste News, August, 2001 by Johnson, Jim
Houston - America's largest representative of waste generators and the country's biggest solid waste company are severing ties in a dispute over a contract valued at up to $35 million, depending on who's talking. Waste Management Inc. is canceling its contract with Oakleaf Waste Management LLC as WMI redefines its relationship with waste brokerage firms, which act on behalf of customers that require waste services.
``I saw the agreement as very limiting for free markets,'' said James R. Barnes, Oakleaf's president and CEO. Both sides agree that Oakleaf had been removing clients from Waste Management in recent months. ``It was our goal to build a long-term business relationship with them, and clearly that wasn't working,'' said Cherie...
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