[PDF] Ed F Kruse Of Blue Bell Creameries eBook

Author : Dorothy McLeod MacInerney
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623493633

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This biography of ice cream entrepreneur Ed. F. Kruse (1928–2015) looks back on a life devoted to family, community, and building one of the most successful businesses in Texas. Starting at Blue Bell Creameries at the age of thirteen, Kruse held every position imaginable at the company, eventually becoming president and chief executive officer. Under his guidance, Blue Bell grew from a creamery serving the small communities around Brenham, Texas, to a nationally recognized brand. Dorothy MacInerney takes readers behind the scenes at the “little creamery in Brenham.” She reveals the hard work, persistence, and dedication that went into building not only Blue Bell Creameries, but also Kruse’s reputation as a tireless worker on behalf of the place where he was born and raised, the people whom he gathered around him at his company, and the home he so clearly treasured above everything else. This is an authentic Texas success story of a man and his guiding principles—and the generosity that compelled him to share his success with others. After retiring, the late Kruse retained a seat on the board of directors until 2015, giving him seventy-five years of experience at Blue Bell Creameries.

Author : Dorothy McLeod MacInerney
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623493641

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This biography of ice cream entrepreneur Ed. F. Kruse (1928–2015) looks back on a life devoted to family, community, and building one of the most successful businesses in Texas. Starting at Blue Bell Creameries at the age of thirteen, Kruse held every position imaginable at the company, eventually becoming president and chief executive officer. Under his guidance, Blue Bell grew from a creamery serving the small communities around Brenham, Texas, to a nationally recognized brand. Dorothy MacInerney takes readers behind the scenes at the “little creamery in Brenham.” She reveals the hard work, persistence, and dedication that went into building not only Blue Bell Creameries, but also Kruse’s reputation as a tireless worker on behalf of the place where he was born and raised, the people whom he gathered around him at his company, and the home he so clearly treasured above everything else. This is an authentic Texas success story of a man and his guiding principles—and the generosity that compelled him to share his success with others. After retiring, the late Kruse retained a seat on the board of directors until 2015, giving him seventy-five years of experience at Blue Bell Creameries.

Author : Ed F. Kruse
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Brenham (Tex.)
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Interview with Ed F. Kruse concerning his experiences as Chairman of the Board, President, General Manager, and Treasurer of Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham, Texas. Kruse discusses his family background, the history of the Brenham Creamery Company, his work in the creamery as a boy, the cream churning process, and the closing of the butter manufacturing operation in 1958. He also talks about his work as a route supervisor for Swift Ice Cream Company in 1949 and Blue Bell Creameries in 1951, as well as his employment as manager of Blue Bell in 1951, the origin of the Blue Bell label, highlights of his managerial years, opening branches in Austin and Houston, personnel recruitment and selection, his entry into the ice cream jobbing business in 1967, and opening branches in Beaumont and Mesquite. Kruse shares his views on advertising approaches, the company's sales and market share, the financing operation and organizational structure, government regulations, his role in the future of the company, the effects of the oil boom near Brenham, the ingredients used in Blue Bell products, his civic and trade association activities, and the development of a successful business. At the end of the interview is an Appendix that includes photocopies of various documents relating to the Brenham Creamery Company.

Author : Robert L. Walker
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1623493153

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The “dean” of development officers in Texas, if not the entire nation, Bob Walker has been instrumental in raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Texas A&M University, including many of the largest gifts in the university’s history. He provides through this book many instructive and sometimes amusing vignettes of his encounters with a wide range of benefactors to Texas A&M. “Bob Walker is much more than a fundraiser. He devotes all of his time to making and keeping friends for the university. I have never met anyone with as much capacity to help Aggies as he has.”—Former Texas A&M President Ray M. Bowen “Bob Walker contributed significantly in creating the culture of stewardship that has helped make Texas A&M one of the nation’s truly great land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant universities.”—Mark A. Hussey, Interim President, Texas A&M University

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Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1961
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Vol. 32 [no. 10] constitutes "Souvenir edition and year book for 1939."