Graves’ influence and reach also extended into the mainstream of corporate America.
At one point, Graves would operate two companies on the list, including Pepsi-Cola of Washington, DC, one of the nation’s largest soft-drink distributors owned by African Americans.
As such, Black Enterprise was one of two companies that would appear on the BE 100s-the publication’s annual rankings of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses-each of its 47 years. Driven by that mission, Graves became a trailblazing entrepreneur in his own right, building BLACK ENTERPRISE from a single-magazine publishing company 50 years ago, to a diversified multimedia business spreading the message of financial empowerment to more than 6 million African Americans through print, digital, broadcast and live-event platforms.
0 kommentar(er)
