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Author Hawthorne, Lowell.

Title The baker's son, my life in business : the story of how the Golden Krust empire was built, from a village shop in Jamaica to the heights of American enterprise / Lowell Hawthorne, with Michael A. Grant.

Publication Info. New York : Akashic Books, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-HAWTHORNE, L.    Check Shelf
Description 211 pages, [16] plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Grant, Michael A.
Contents My papa -- Baker's son -- Family foundation -- Kid tycoon -- Going to America -- No paradise in the Bronx -- On the job -- Hot streak -- Golden Krust is born -- Opportunity amid crisis -- Dough rising -- Shaped by tragedy -- Sharing and caring -- Faith's awesome power -- The path to the future -- Wealth, the Golden Krust way.
Summary The Baker's Son is a memoir by the founder of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill, the hugely successful Jamaican owned and run enterprise that reaches from New York to Florida with over 120 franchise locations. Starting from humble beginnings, and after weathering several major crises along the way, the Hawthorne family has scaled the heights of success to achieve the American Dream to an unprecedented degree. Today the Golden Krust brand represents the most lucrative Caribbean business ever established in America and one of the most profitable black businesses operating in the United States.-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hawthorne, Lowell.
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill (Firm)
Businessmen -- Jamaica -- Biography.
Entrepreneurship -- Jamaica -- Biography.
ISBN 9781617751257
1617751251
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