Company · Food & Beverage · founded 1987
TLC Beatrice International
Company created in 1987 when Reginald Lewis bought Beatrice's international food operations for $985 million. It became the largest business owned by an African American and the first to reach a billion dollars in sales.
Of the 1 person here linked to TLC Beatrice International, 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 TLC Beatrice International
Executive Past
Role
Bought Beatrice International Foods and headed the renamed company, 1987
Source
· medium confidence. The Beatrice Foods page says Lewis bought Beatrice's international operations in 1987 for $985 million, creating TLC Beatrice International with a Black man at its head. Neither Wikipedia page gives his exact title; the profile calls him chairman and CEO. His widow took over after his death in January 1993.
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Reginald F. Lewis
Chairman and CEO, TLC Beatrice International
working-class · outsider · graduate degree