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Christian entrepreneur - Dave L. Steward

Posted on: Thursday, June 26th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
At number ten, we have the youngest addition to the list, Dave L. Steward, founder of World Wide Technologies, the largest black-owned company in America. A devout Christian, Steward used his experience in the locomotive industry to enter the technology market and grow his company into a billion dollar operation. Dedicated to allowing companies to […]

Christian entrepreneur - Drayton McLane

Posted on: Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
At the number nine spot is Drayton McLane, owner of the Houston Astros and Chairman and CEO of the McLane Group and a net worth of $1.3 billion. After growing his father’s business at a rate of 30 percent for over fours decades he was able to grow his company’s annual revenue to over $6 […]

Christian entrepreneur - David Green

Posted on: Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

Eighth on our list is David Green, founder and president of retail giant Hobby Lobby, started making frames nearly 35 years ago. Since then, he has grown his company to the point where it is now doing $1.4 billion annually. Notable for both his business acumen and his love for people, Green, like Cathy, keeps […]

Christian entrepreneurs - S. Truett Cathy

Posted on: Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
In seventh place is S. Truett Cathy, whose Chic-fil-A restaurant chain started as a small southern diner in 1946 and has grown to become one of the top fast food franchises in the world. Total revenues for the last year exceed $1.5 billion, and the chain now has over 1,000 restaurants worldwide. A long time […]

Christian entrepreneur - Bruce Kovner

Posted on: Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
In sixth position is Bruce Kovner, owner of the largest hedge fund in the world: $11 billion Caxton Associates in New York City. After working as a cabbie in the big apple, Kovner borrowed $3,000 and began trading stocks and worked his way up to $2 billion net worth. Not bad for a taxi driver. […]

Christian entrepreneur - Lonnie “Bo” Pilgrim

Posted on: Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
In fifth position is Lonnie “Bo” Pilgrim, an entrepreneur who took a feed store he started with his brother in 1946 and turned it into an operation that in the past year has taken in over $2.6 billion in revenue. Specializing in chicken and related products, Pilgrim’s Pride is the second largest poultry provider in […]

Christian entrepreneurs - Richard DeVos & Jay Van Andel

Posted on: Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
In third and fourth positions on our list are Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel respectively, the two founders of Amway (now under the Alticor umbrella) with a net worth of approximately $3 billion each. These two devout Christians took the world of multilevel marketing by storm for almost four decades (starting in 1959), with […]

Christian entrepreneur - John F. Baugh

Posted on: Monday, June 23rd, 2008 in: Environmental

Second on this maiden list is John F. Baugh, founder of SYSCO, located in Houston, Texas. The company began in 1970, doing $115 million its first year, and growing to the point that by the end of the last fiscal year, sales topped out at $26.1 billion. SYSCO, which is an acronym for Systems and […]

Christian entrepreneur - Phillip Anschultz

Posted on: Monday, June 23rd, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
Topping our list as Business Reform’s Entrepreneur of the Year is Phillip Anschultz, entrepreneur and investor extraordinaire. The story goes that in his early days as a drilling business owner, one of his oil fields caught on fire. He called on Red Adair to put out the fire, but Adair was hesitant to do so […]

Top 10 Christian entrepreneurs

Posted on: Monday, June 23rd, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
UKpreneur written by a christian entrepreneur has been busy compiling a list of the top 10 christian entrepreneurs.
As far as our criteria and methods go, we first had to define who really qualifies as an entrepreneur. The term is often used broadly, but for this list, candidates had to meet the following conditions: One, they […]