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J. Frank Harrison III & family
United States 71 years old
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Coca-Cola bottling
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Residence
- Charlotte, North Carolina
Assets
- Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.10,043,940 shares @ --COKE-US
Biography
J. Frank Harrison, III is the long-time chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Consolidated, the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the U.S.
He owns 15% of the publicly traded company, which his great-grandfather J.B. Harrison founded in 1902, but has majority voting control.
He succeeded his father J. Frank Harrison, Jr. (d. 2002) as CEO in 1994 and chairman in 1996.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina and Duke MBA, he joined the Charlotte-based company in 1977 and got his start running routes and operating bottling lines.
A devout Christian, he cofounded a missionary organization called Open Eyes with his son James Harrison IV, who died while doing relief work in Kenya in 2010.