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Company · Food & Beverage · founded 1936

Goya Foods

Private American producer and distributor of foods and beverages, founded in New York City in 1936 by Prudencio Unanue Ortiz. It is under third-generation ownership of the Unanue family and based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Of the 1 person here linked to Goya Foods, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at Goya Foods

Executive

Role

President and chief executive officer (earlier ran the company's Puerto Rico operations for about seven years in the 1980s), 2004–2025
Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia says he was chief executive between 2004 and 2025, and that on February 23, 2025 he announced the board had terminated his employment. The Puerto Rico stint is from the Unanue family article and has no stated years beyond the 1980s.
Past
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Robert Unanue
President and CEO of Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States (2004–2025)
comfortable · elite · some college