Jack Link & family
$4.0B
Born
Feb 22, 1946
Age
80
Source of Wealth
Jack Link's meat snacks
Residence
Minong, Wisconsin
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
2
Education
- Jack Link's eponymous meat products company sells 800 million packages of beef jerky, turkey jerky, meat sticks and other goods each year.
- Link's great-grandfather emigrated from Germany to Wisconsin in the 1880s, bringing with him his old-world recipes for sausages and smoked meats. His grandfather was butcher and his father raised cattle.
- In 1985, with the Link family's meatpacking business bankrupt, Jack Link was inspired to start producing jerky using his great-grandfather's 1880s recipes.
- Now Jack Link's is the top-selling jerky brand in America, with $2 billion in estimated annual revenue and 34% of the market.
- Jack Link became chairman in 2013 and his son Troy moved into the role of CEO.
- The Link family also owns a car dealership, an RV dealership, and ranch and farmland in Minong, Wisconsin, where the company is headquartered.
- Jack Link's beef sticks and jerkies are sold across more than 200,000 stores at nearly every major retailer in America, as well as in 55 countries around the world.
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