Jack Link’s $4 billion family-owned business is the largest manufacturer of jerky in the world, selling 800 million packages of meat snacks and other products a year. But the company namesake and his son are still hungry for more.
ByChloe Sorvino
ByChloe Sorvino,
Forbes Staff.
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ack in 1985, the Link family’s Wisconsin meatpacking business had just gone bankrupt, and Jack Link was taking his then-teenage sons hunting when they stopped at a convenience store to buy a few packages of jerky. After paying, Link couldn’t believe how expensive it was.
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