Phil Knight: Co-Founder Of The Hershey Company

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Phil Knight is a co-founder of Nike and has been the chairman of the company for almost 50 years he first started making shoes and selling them out of the trunk of his car and now Nike is the most popular brand shoe and with a net worth of “22.3 billion dollars and Knight is the 43rd richest man in the world.” (forbes) Milton Hershey was the founder of Hershey’s chocolate and “built the Lancaster caramel company and when the company shut down he made is first chocolate bar” and also made the Hershey’s kisses witch are still enjoyed today and the Hershey Company has a net worth of 23.3 million dollars. Gianni Versace was a fashion designer “who found the brand Versace in 1978”he started designing the first Versace shirt and has

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