ISU Redbird Magazine Cover Featuring Craig Bouchard

The Base for Success

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Redbird Magazine

by Lauren Hutchcraft

Former Redbird baseball player and successful businessman Craig Bouchard had a ground-breaking idea and Illinois State was where it all began.

“Business is a lot like sports,” Bouchard, a letter winner on the redbird baseball team, said. “I don’t see business as a job, it is a game. If you play hard and fight, you may lose a few, but you win most of them. I never had a job. I get to compete all the time like I did in sports. Business has been much like that.

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60 Seconds, Craig Bouchard

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The Hinsdalean

By Pamela Lannom

One of seven children • Has twin granddaughters • Attended Illinois State on a baseball scholarship • Is working to bring Cubs spring training to Naples • Helped found a mathematics software company • Spent 19 years in banking

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Bouchard Takes you Inside the Global Tug-of-War for the Control of Esmark

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AMM BOOK NOOK

By Scott Robertson

Subscribers to AMM have read for years of mergers and acquisitions in metals, efforts to consolidate the steel industry and the motives of industry magnates like Lakshmi Mittal, Alexei Mordashov, Wilbur Ross and others.

As numerous, as complex and as detailed as many of those stories are—and surely will be in the future—AMM never had a reporter sitting in a closed-door meeting with the principals when a deal was on the table.

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Co-Authors of ‘America for Sale’ Warn of Looming Risks for U.S. Economy, Critical Industries

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Vice Chairman of Esmark Inc. Briefs Executives at Chicago’s Association for Corporate Growth Forum on Risks Related to Securing Our Domestic Infrastructure Future

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHICAGO, OCTOBER 2, 2009 — Craig T. Bouchard, Vice Chairman and co-founder of Esmark Inc., speaking to the executives attending Chicago’s Association for Corporate Growth forum, signaled new risks percolating under the surface of the U.S economy, namely significantly higher interest rates, re-inflation of commodity prices, a further weakening of the U.S. dollar, and a coming rush by foreign companies to purchase equity in industries potentially critical to national defense.

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Bouchard Sees New Risks Ahead for US

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American Metal Market

By Scott Robertson

Craig T. Bouchard has managed his way through the global financial crisis and learned a few lessons along the way. Among them are that more such crises can be expected in the future.

Bouchard, president and co-founder of the former Chicago-based Esmark Inc., warned executives attending Chicago’s Association for Corporate Growth Forum on Friday that new risks are percolating below the surface of the U.S. economy. Some of those risks include significantly higher interest rates, re-inflation of commodity prices, a further weakening of the U.S. dollar and a coming rush by foreign companies to purchase equity in industries potentially critical to national defense, most notably steel.

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The Launch of “America for Sale: How the Foreign Pack Circled and Devoured Esmark”

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October 2, 2009 marked the launch of “America For Sale: How the Foreign Pack Circled and Devoured Esmark,” co-authored by Esmark Inc. Vice Chairman and co-founder Craig T. Bouchard and noted economist, Dr. James V. Koch. Hundreds of news organizations around the world carried stories about the book and the authors bold predictions about the future of the U.S. economy. Here’s just sampling of the the kinds of media organizations that covered the book launch and several select stories.

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