Dunavant Enterprises, Inc. is a privately owned company, with cotton merchandising as its primary business. Dunavant is one of the largest cotton merchandisers in the world, handling in excess of 4 million bales of U.S. and foreign cotton per year. Their involvement in the cotton industry includes ginning and warehousing operations throughout the world. Dunavant owns a commodities trading company, various real estate development companies, a Truck Brokerage Company that serves as agent for approximately 5,000 trucks used to haul cotton to domestic mills and to ports for export, and various other entities.