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3 unusual facts about Beatrice Foods


Beatrice Foods

The case became the subject of the popular book and film A Civil Action.

Federal judge Walter Jay Skinner ruled that Beatrice was not responsible for the contamination, although according to the book and film, based on new evidence brought forward by the EPA later found, Judge Skinner reversed his verdict and found both companies responsible.

Jean Fugett

After the death of his brother in 1993, Fugett took over TLC Beatrice International Foods, the largest black-owned and black managed business in the United States at the time.


Kalise Menorquina

Beatrice Foods also bought a stake in Modernas Aplicaciones de la Refrigeracion Industrial, SA, under the trade name Marisa.

Trimaran Capital Partners

The Argosy team had been involved in many of the most prominent high yield financings of the preceding two decades, for companies including RJR Nabisco, Beatrice Foods, and Storer Communications.


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