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Chicago business executive Hilmon Sorey, Jr., purchases 51 percent of Hawthorn-Mellody and becomes president and chief executive officer of the nation’s largest minority-owned dairy.
1990 (Nov)
Chicago business executive Hilmon Sorey, Jr., purchased 51 percent of Hawthorn-Mellody and became president and chief executive officer of the nation's largest minority-owned dairy. The fifty-two-year-old company projected sales of more than $100 million and expected to achieve a modest profit after showing a $500,000 loss the previous year. The Schaumburg, Illinois-based dairy has production and distribution facilities in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Sorey was previously president of Hilmon S. Sorey & Associates, a Chicago-based management consultant firm.
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- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.