{"id":190723,"date":"2021-02-10T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/?p=190723"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:14:55","slug":"povestea-omului-care-a-fondat-o-companie-cu-77-000-de-angajati-cum-a-reusit-sa-construiasca-un-imperiu-desi-provenea-dintr-o-familie-modesta-cu-sapte-frati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/?p=190723","title":{"rendered":"Povestea omului care a fondat o companie cu 77.000 de angaja\u0163i. Cum a reu\u015fit s\u0103 construiasc\u0103 un imperiu de\u015fi provenea dintr-o familie modest\u0103, cu \u015fapte fra\u0163i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>A trecut de la contabilitate la voluntariat \u00een cadrul armatei, pentru ca \u00een final s\u0103 porneasc\u0103 un business aflat \u00een prezent \u00een portofoliul gigantului Ahold Delhaize. Este povestea lui Ralph Ketner, fondatorul Food Lion, unul dintre cei mai importan\u0163i retaileri din SUA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nRalph Wright Ketner s-a n\u0103scut pe 20 septembrie 1920 \u00een Rimertown, North Carolina, \u00een familia cu \u015fapte copii a lui George Robert Ketner \u015fi Effie Yost Ketner. \u00cenc\u0103 din copil\u0103rie, el a \u00eenceput s\u0103 v\u00e2nd\u0103 ziare \u015fi almanahuri, iar la v\u00e2rsta adolescen\u0163ei s-a angajat la b\u0103c\u0103nia fratelui s\u0103u.<\/p>\n<p>\nPasionat de cifre, \u00een 1937, dup\u0103 absolvirea liceului, s-a \u00eenscris la Tri-State College, \u00een Indiana, la finalizarea c\u0103ruia a ob\u0163inut o diplom\u0103 de licen\u0163\u0103 \u00een contabilitate.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00centors acas\u0103, s-a angajat pe pozi\u0163ia de contabil la compania Cannon Mills, fiind avansat ulterior \u00een rolul de auditor. Dup\u0103 atacul de la Pearl Harbour, din 1941, el s-a al\u0103turat armatei SUA ca volunar, servind \u00een Africa \u015fi Europa timp de 3 ani.<\/p>\n<p>\nPe 11 decembrie 1957, al\u0103turi de Brown Ketner \u015fi Wilson Smith, antreprenorul a pus bazele lan\u0163ului de b\u0103c\u0103nii Food Town \u00een Salisbury, North Carolina. Ini\u0163ial a de\u0163inut \u00een cadrul companiei rolul de pre\u015fedinte, iar mai apoi a preluat func\u0163ia de CEO \u015fi, \u00een final, pe cea de pre\u015fedinte emerit. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nBusinessul a operat independent p\u00e2n\u0103 \u00een 1974, c\u00e2nd a fost achizi\u0163ionat de conglomeratul belgian Delhaize Group. \u00cen 1983, \u015fi-a schimbat denumirea \u015fi brandul \u00een Food Lion. De-a lungul timpului, compania a fost implicat\u0103 \u00eentr-o serie de scandaluri dup\u0103 ce s-a descoperit c\u0103 a comercializat produse expirate sau \u0163inute \u00een condi\u0163ii insalubre.<\/p>\n<p>\nRalph Ketner a fost c\u0103s\u0103torit de dou\u0103 ori. Din prima c\u0103snicie, cu Ruth Jones, a avut doi copii \u2013 Linda Ketner \u015fi Robert Ketner. A doua so\u0163ie a fost Anne Blizzard. Dup\u0103 ce s-a retras din conducerea Food Lion, Ketner s-a implicat \u00een numeroase activit\u0103\u0163i filantropice, destinate \u00een special educa\u0163iei, oamenilor f\u0103r\u0103 ad\u0103post, copiilor \u015fi combaterii foametei. Antreprenorul a fost \u015fi o persoan\u0103 credincioas\u0103, particip\u00e2nd la slujbele bisericii presbiteriene din Salisbury timp de peste 83 de ani.<\/p>\n<p>\nEl a murit la v\u00e2rsta de 95 de ani, \u00een urma unei complica\u0163ii cauzate de cancerul de colon.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00cen prezent, Food Lion de\u0163ine peste 1.000 de unit\u0103\u0163i \u00een regiunea Atlanticului Mijlociu \u015fi \u00een sudul SUA \u015fi are o echip\u0103 de circa 77.000 de angaja\u0163i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trecut de la contabilitate la voluntariat \u00een cadrul armatei, pentru ca \u00een final s\u0103 porneasc\u0103 un business aflat \u00een prezent \u00een portofoliul gigantului Ahold Delhaize. Este povestea lui Ralph Ketner, fondatorul Food Lion, unul dintre cei mai importan\u0163i retaileri din SUA. Ralph Wright Ketner s-a n\u0103scut pe 20 septembrie 1920 \u00een Rimertown, North Carolina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510,7211,512],"tags":[31819,47914,47913],"class_list":["post-190723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualitate","category-comert","category-revista-bm","tag-capitalistul-saptamanii","tag-food-lion","tag-ralph-wright-ketner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}