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Brayton was quoted calling Menard one of my dearest friends. He would call Menard at home late at night and theyd talk for hours, Indy historian Davidson says. But pushed by Home Depot, by the mid 1990s, Menards policy had changed to If we sell it, you take it back, says Bropst. His drivers and race cars would greet guests at grand-openings of new stores. While John was still in high school, his father hired a company to build a pole barn, and John got a summer job working with the crew. Our History. or. Most companies with an employee with a disabled daughter would want to be behind the family But John Menard had this attitude, Who the hell is telling me how to run my company?. Most store managers havent lasted long enough to retire, insiders say. John Menard Jr had a net worth of $7.3 billion in 2007, according to the Forbes 400, and is the richest person in Wisconsin. Popcorn and peanuts, all that crap at the checkouts, thats a big mistake, says Will Ander, senior partner of the Chicago retail consulting firm, McMillan/Doolittle John Menard III About Work No workplaces to show College Studied at University of Wisconsin-Madison High school Went to Regis High School (Wisconsin) Photos See all photos Others Named John Menard III John Menard III See more Others With a Similar Name HI RA YA Connect with John Menard III on Facebook Log In or Create new account In the same case, a financial analyst hired by John Menard, examined comparable retail chains and put Menards in the frugal bottom 10 percent for average debt. Theres an emotional youthfulness and wonder about him like a kid having fun and then he says, wait a minute, I cant control that, and he tries to control absolutely everything, says Kight. John Menard | Flickr He had owned an Indy-car racing team for 25 years, beginning before Paul was born. Menard is not known as a philanthropist. They have also lived in Bark River, MI. He paid himself $20.6 million in 1998, three times more than the Lowes CEO and seven times more than Home Depots. He was absolutely a pioneer at leveraging shelf space to get sponsors for his Indy team, says Eric Wright, research and development vice president for Joyce Julius and Associates, the most prominent sponsorship reporting service in racing. In their book Built from Scratch, company founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Black recounted how in the 1990s, a man tried to return a set of tires, even though Home Depot didnt sell tires.

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