Eagle Ford shale builds new businesses and drives sales throughout region - Corpus Christi Caller-Times
A veteran former car salesman and trusted former associate rev up a second career, padding his retirement and giving him a torch to pass to his son. Another longtime salesman still in the car business is catching the bulk of a regional 140 percent increase in Ford fleet truck sales. Three examples of the ingenuity the economic boom driven by Eagle Ford Shale drilling is bringing to South Texas. The formation — a 50-mile-wide underground ribbon of oil and gas deposits trending northwest for about 400 miles from the Rio Grande to Central Texas and beyond — supported about 12,600 jobs and a total payroll of $512 million in 2010, according... The effects spread 40 miles from the heart of the drilling activity to Corpus Christi. Others are entering uncharted business territory with new ventures to grab part of the workload to help the region keep pace with development. Through Kenedy and the South Texas towns he knew as a hunter, he saw restaurants he frequented during quieter times now with long lines. He remembered the words of his longtime trusted friend and San Antonio businessman Red McCombs: "He said, 'I want you to know the Eagle Ford Shale will have the largest financial impact on South Texas than anything that will happen in your... "That's when I really got fever," Crow said. Crow approached his then-general sales manager at Sames Crow Ford, Sergio Ibanez, and Crow's son, Dos. Source: www.caller.com
