Reyes Holdings

It started on a dining room table, where a father and his sons ran the numbers for a business they were considering getting into. They figured revenues and expenses and potential for growth, working it all up manually on handheld calculators, until they decided that it all made sense. Then they took the leap.

Fifty years later, those sons are at the helm of the sixth-largest privately held company in the United States. Reyes Holdings is an important part of the food and beverage supply chain. It runs the country’s largest beer distributor, owns the world’s principal supplier to McDonald’s (and other restaurant chains), and operates one of America’s biggest Coca-Cola bottling and distribution concerns.