How Bush’s Built A Billion-Dollar Family Fortune From America’s Favorite Baked Beans
Key takeaways
- Food & Drink Daily Cover How Bush’s Built A Billion-Dollar Family Fortune From America’s Favorite Baked Beans Family Matters: “We're proud to be family-owned,” fourth-generation chairman Drew Everett says of Bush's.
- What began as a small general store in Tennessee more than a century ago has grown into a bean behemoth perfectly aligned for the GLP-1 era.
- Fab Fernandez for Forbes“Today we're still as committed to the bean as we ever have been,” says Everett, 56. “I love to be in the backyard grilling different types of meats that pair well with our baked beans.
Food & Drink Daily Cover How Bush’s Built A Billion-Dollar Family Fortune From America’s Favorite Baked Beans Family Matters: “We're proud to be family-owned,” fourth-generation chairman Drew Everett says of Bush's. “We want to remain family-owned and that has been a consistent theme."Fab Fernandez for Forbes By Chloe Sorvino,
What began as a small general store in Tennessee more than a century ago has grown into a bean behemoth perfectly aligned for the GLP-1 era. Now fourth-generation chairman Drew Everett is a man with big plans for all those cans.In many backyards across America, a barbecue is not complete without baked beans. That means that, for the country’s largest canned bean company, Bush Brothers, nearly 40 million pounds are sold leading up to Memorial Day Weekend.
In fact, Knoxville, Tennessee-based Bush’s sells 80% of America’s canned baked beans, a feat that fourth-generation heir and chairman of Bush Brothers, Drew Everett, attributes to being “bean-focused” and not getting “distracted by other products.”