Treated like family
Subtitle: how an entrepreneur and his "employee family" built Sargento, a billion-dollar cheese company
By: Tom Faley
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781478992868
Subjects: Cheese industry; Sargento Foods Inc; Biography; History
Description: At the age of nineteen, high school diploma in hand, Leonard Gentine knew two things: he wanted to own a family business that would pass from generation to generation, and he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Dolores Becker, a girl he'd met on a blind date. This biography, told from the viewpoint of four generations of the Gentine family, places the reader in Leonard's shoes as he advances from young man to old age and discovers life's foundational lessons. Along the way, he endures outstanding debts, disappointments, and a collection of small businesses, all with Dolores at his side. It's an inspirational story of perseverance, personal integrity, and a mind-set of always doing the right thing-as painful as that may be in the short term.