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Bill Rosenberg, the founder of Dunkin Donuts
Bill Rosenberg was born on June 10, 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts. -
Educatation
Bill Rosenberg went to public school, then in 8th grade he was force to leave school and get a job to support his faimly during the Great Depression. -
Work
Bill Rosenberg quit school to work at West Union. At seventeen Bill worked for a ice cream company. By the age of twenty-one Bill was named national sales manger. Then going to Bethlehem Steel Company to become contract coordinator. -
Bill Rosenberg idea
Bill's inspiration to start a donut business was influenced by his parents who owned and operated a grocery store. -
The creation of Dunkin Donuts
Bill founded Dunkin Donuts in 1950. Dunkin Donuts is a company that produces coffee, donuts, and sandwiches. The first Dunkin Donuts was in Quincy, Massachusetts because it was close to his home town of Boston. -
Dunkin Donuts expanding
By 1954, Mr. Rosenberg had opened a total of five Dunkin' Donuts shops, and had been featured as a young entrepreneur in national publications such as The Saturday Evening Post and Coronet magazine. -
Struggles for Rosenberg
Mr. Rosenberg faced many challeneges when dealing with his business but the main two challeneges were competition and money. Competition was local stores at first until the company grow. The other challenege was money because he didn't have the money to grow bigger until the business started to sell a larger variety of products. -
Success from starting this business
Mr. Rosenberg was very succesful. He expanded his company from one store in Massachusetts to 10,000 stores all over the world. -
Bill Rosenberg died at the age of 86
He died on September 22, 2002 at the age of 86 of bladder cancer. His net worth was 1.5 billion.
