Jim Kauffman, President of Keystone Steel & Wire Co., began his career with a public accounting firm, then worked for a private investment company in Houston, Texas, which owned a number of different businesses, some of which were in wire and wire products. He later moved to Dallas to work for Harold Simmons, who owns the controlling interest in Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc., the parent company of Keystone Steel & Wire. In 1991, when Bob Singer, who at the time was president of both Keystone Consolidated Industries and Keystone Steel & Wire (he is currently still president of the parent company) wanted, for personal reasons, to move his family back to Dallas, Mr. Kauffman moved to Peoria to become president of the local operation. The Peoria operation represents approximately 80-85 percent of the revenues of Keystone Consolidated Industries.
