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Beginning in 1965 with a brick and tile company that had been rapidly deteriorating, Fuqua Industries has grown quickly with the acquisition of many other firms...
...Fuqua prefers purchasing proven companies because "it's much simpler, much faster, and much safer" than forming new ones, he said. "Success depends to a large extent on who you marry," he added...
...Fuqua Industries consists primarily of leisure-product firms, as well as trucking and mobile home concerns. Fuqua has said the company deliberately avoids highly technological and military businesses...
Speaking before a Business School audience of 50, John B. Fuqua, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fuqua Industries, related several personal encounters he has experienced in his rise from the tobacco farms of Virginia to becoming majority stockholder in two corporations and one of the wealthiest men in the South...
...Fuqua will lecture at 4:00 p.m. today at Baker 100 at the Business School