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LA500 2024: Stewart Resnick

Chair, President, The Wonderful Co.

Resnick oversees The Wonderful Co., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States and one of the biggest farming operations in North America. His business started with his early acquisition of Teleflora and the Franklin Mint and expanded into agriculture with the purchase of the Paramount Citrus association in 1981. Resnick met his wife a year after selling, for $2.5 million, the janitorial business he started in college. In 2015 they renamed their corporation, Roll Global, as The Wonderful Co., which includes POM Wonderful, Fiji Water and a vineyard in Paso Robles. Resnick is a trustee for the California Institute of Technology and for Bard College Through their foundation and personal giving, the Resnicks have invested more than $2.5 billion in education, health and wellness, community development and sustain- ability initiatives globally.

YEARS ON LA500: 9

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