Profil Financier
Drayton McLane Jr occupe actuellement le rang #947 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur luxe, mode & beauté). Fortune nette estimée : $4.6 B (+$40 sur 24h).
Drayton McLane turned his family's grocery distribution company, McLane Co., into an international firm and sold it to Walmart.
McLane became president and CEO of McLane Co. and ran it for almost 30 years, averaging yearly sales growth of 30%.
In 1991, he sold McLane Co. to his friend Sam Walton for $50 million and 10.4 million shares of Walmart.
In 2003, Walmart sold the company to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $1.45 billion.
Shortly after 1991, he founded McLane Company, a holding company with a wide array of investments, including a stake in the Houston Astros.
McLane started working for the family business at the age of nine, spending Saturdays and summers sweeping floors and stacking inventory.
As a result of donations to both of his alma maters, Michigan State University and Baylor University have stadiums named after him.