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Sy Syms (2009)
Associated Press NEW YORK -- Sy Syms, founder and chairman of the SYMS Corp. discount clothing chain, died of heart failure Tuesday in New York, according to a statement issued by the company. He was 83. Syms founded his apparel business in 1959 in New York's financial district as a discount retailer of off-price men's clothes. By 1983, he had expanded the business to 11 stores and taken...
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David A. Olsen (2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - A Marsh & McLennan Cos. board member, David A. Olsen, died Saturday, the company said in a statement Wednesday. He was 71. Olsen had served on the board of the insurance company since 1997. He also was a member of the audit, compliance and corporate responsibility committees. He joined Marsh & McLennan after it bought Johnson & Higgins in 1997. He had been...
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Bernardo Garza Sada (2009)
MEXICO CITY (Associated Press) - Mexican industrial conglomerate Grupo Alfa says the company's former president has died. Alfa spokesman Enrique Flores said Bernardo Garza Sada died Saturday. He did not give a cause of death in an e-mail message. Garza Sada is credited for helping build Grupo Alfa into a diversified petrochemicals, food, auto parts and telecom conglomerate with...
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Troy N. Smith, 87 (1922 - 2009)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Troy N. Smith, the founder of a drive-in chain that became Sonic restaurants, has died in Oklahoma City. He was 87. A spokeswoman for the Oklahoma City-based restaurant chain says Smith died Monday at an Oklahoma City hospital after a recent decline in health. Smith started the Top Hat root beer stand in Shawnee, Okla., in 1953 and later converted it into a drive-in...
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Lionel Pincus, 78 (1931 - 2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Lionel Pincus, founder and chairman of New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has died, according to a spokesman for his longtime partner, Princess Firyal of Jordan. He was 78. Pincus died around midnight Saturday in his Manhattan home after a long illness, the spokesman said. Pincus founded Warburg Pincus in 1966. Since then the firm has...
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Ben Ali (2009)
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Ben Ali, the founder of Ben's Chili Bowl diner, a landmark in Washington's black business and entertainment district and a frequent stop for politicians and...
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Craig Johnson (1946 - 2009)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By Stephen Miller To help create a new digital world, Craig Johnson dreamed up a new kind of law firm. A veteran of one of...
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Reinhard Mohn, 88 (1921 - 2009)
BERLIN (Associated Press) Reinhard Mohn, who helped transform media group Bertelsmann AG from a German book publisher to an international media company, has died, the company said Sunday. He...
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Donald G. Fisher (1928 - 2009)
By SARAH SKIDMORE - AP Retail Writer PORTLAND, Ore. Donald G. Fisher, who co-founded clothing retailer Gap Inc., has died at age 81 after a long battle with cancer. The company said...
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Bob Stupak, 67 (1942 - 2009)
LAS VEGAS (Associated Press) - Bob Stupak, a colorful gambler and the developer of the 1,149-foot Stratosphere tower on the Las Vegas Strip, died Friday at a hospital after a long fight with...
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Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet (1929 - 2009)
MIAMI (Associated Press) - Family members say the founder of a major Hispanic food company has died in his South Florida home. He was 79. Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, founder of Sazon Goya...
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Melvin Simon (2009)
By TOM DAVIES, Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Melvin Simon, the son of a New York City tailor who started what is now the country's largest shopping mall company and owned the NBA...
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Bruce Wasserstein (2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) — The Wall Street Journal and CNBC are reporting that Bruce Wasserstein, a prominent Wall Street dealmaker and CEO of Lazard, is dead. Lazard did not immediately...
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James S. McDonald (2009)
By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer BOSTON -- James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted...
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Frank Batten, Sr., 82 (1927 - 2009)
By SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press Writer NORFOLK, Va. -- Frank Batten Sr., who built a communications empire that spanned newspapers and cable television and created The Weather Channel, died...
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Finn M.W. Caspersen (2009)
WESTERLY, R.I. (Associated Press) -- Finn M.W. Caspersen, a former chief executive of the financial services firm Beneficial Corp., has been found dead after what Rhode Island police say is an...
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William Marvin, 92 (1917 - 2009)
WARROAD, Minn. - William Marvin, the former president and chairman of Marvin Windows and Doors responsible for its growth into a major manufacturer, died Monday. He was 92. He died at his home...
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Richard Egan (1936 - 2009)
BOSTON - Richard Egan, who rose from Boston street kid to the U.S. ambassador to Ireland after making millions of dollars founding data storage giant EMC Corp., died Friday after a battle with...
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Alex Grass (2009)
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Rite Aid Corp. founder Alex Grass has died at age 82. Grass' daughter, Elizabeth Weese, says he died Thursday night in Harrisburg, Pa., after a 10-year battle with lung...
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Stanley H. Kaplan (1919 - 2009)
NEW YORK -- The founder of the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers Ltd., the nation's first test preparation company, has died. He was 90. Stanley H. Kaplan passed away from heart failure on...
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Frank Fertitta, Jr. (1938 - 2009)
LAS VEGAS - Frank Fertitta Jr., the founder of casino operator Station Casinos Inc. who retired when his sons took the company public, died Friday. He was 70. A spokeswoman for the Las Vegas...
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Sherwood Cryer (2009)
HOUSTON - Sherwood Cryer, the former owner of a Pasadena bar and nightclub made famous by the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy," has died. A Rosewood Funeral Home mortician in Pasadena confirmed Cryer's...
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Jimmy Bedford (2009)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jimmy Bedford, the slender and silver-haired former master distiller of the Jack Daniel's whiskey during a 40-year career with the company, died Friday. He was 69. His body...
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Andrew Lanyi, 84 (1925 - 2009)
By STEPHEN MILLER Securities analyst Andrew Lanyi had an unusual gift for his clients: a T-shirt with his smiling profile silk screened on it. Don't need a T-shirt? How about a Lanyi...
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Theodore D. Nierenberg, 86 (1923 - 2009)
NEW YORK - Theodore D. Nierenberg, who started Dansk International Designs in his suburban New York garage and helped popularize Scandanavian-themed tableware and cookware in American kitchens and...
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Robert Thorstenson (2009)
PETERSBURG, Alaska - Robert Thorstenson Sr., who played a principal role in founding the company that would become Icicle Seafoods, died Tuesday. He was 77. Thorstenson had survived...
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Sue Burns, 58 (1950 - 2009)
SAN FRANCISCO - By JANIE McCAULEY Sue Burns, a part owner of the San Francisco Giants and devoted philanthropist who was close friends with home run king Barry Bonds, has died. She was 58. ...
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Seddon Bennington (2009)
The chief executive of New Zealand's national museum was found dead Wednesday by searchers scouring a mountainous region where he and a friend disappeared during a weekend hike. Seddon...
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Harry J. Gray (2009)
HARTFORD, Conn. - Harry J. Gray, the retired United Technologies Corp. chief executive who is credited with transforming the company into an industrial conglomerate, died Wednesday. He was 89. ...
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Oscar G. Mayer, 95 (1914 - 2009)
MADISON, Wis. - Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95. Mayer's wife, Geraldine, said he died of old...
