May 12, 2014
Kellogg Presents Award to Leadership Behind Jack Daniel’s
The following article was originally sourced from the news piece “Family Spirits,” published on Kellogg’s News & Events page.
Board Chairman G. Garvin Brown IV and CEO Paul C. Varga of Brown-Forman, the family-first spirit and wine company best known for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey accepted the Kellogg School of Management’s 2014 Family Enterprise Leadership Award in front of an audience of faculty, practitioners and students.
The Brown family originally brought in Varga as an intern at the company. He worked his way up the corporate ladder for 19 years before being named CEO of the previously family-led company in 2005. Continue reading…