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 | | Lewis, in her own right the Chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice, LLC, is best known as the widow of Reginald F. Lewis, who acquired Beatrice in a $985 million leveraged buyout and created the largest African American company in the United States. |
 | | Loida Nicolas Lewis is Chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice, LLC, the Lewis Family investment firm, and is also Chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice (China), Limited, a Cayman company which operates retail convenience stores in five major cities in China and TLC Beatrice Foods (Philippines) which operates a fresh meat processing plant. |
 | | Lewis served as an informal adviser and confidant to her late husband, Reginald F. Lewis, TLC Beatrice’s first chairman and CEO. |
| www.sunysb.edu /sb/wang/lewis.shtml (333 words) |
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