Mitzi Perdue - Matriarch of the Sheraton Hotels and Perdue Chicken Families [The Business of Family]

Episode  |  1 February 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 2 mins

author, business, businesswoman, family archivist, family business, family history, family newsletter, matriarch, poultry business, sheraton hotels, stewardship

Mitzi Perdue is the daughter of one family business titan (her father founded the Sheraton Hotel Chain) and the widow of another, (her late husband was the family business poultry magnate, Frank Perdue), and she is also a businesswoman in her own right. She started the family wine grape business, now one of the larger suppliers of wine grapes in California.