History
Champion Economics LLC is the recently changed name of a Champion-owned business tracing back to 1888 in Southwest Georgia. In those early days, Jack Champion's grandfather, Charles Jackson Champion operated several family enterprises under the name C. J. Champion & Company including a general store that extended substantial credit to farmers, a local telephone company with a total of eight customers, a farming operation, a cotton gin, and a sawmill. Although it had been boarded up since the boll weevil plague hit Georgia farmers in the 1920's, the general store was still standing until 2000 when it was struck by lightning and completely destroyed in the resulting fire. Inside the store building at the time of the fire, the old safe was still there even though covered with dust. It stood about six feet tall with the words