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Schenley Industries was a liquor company based in New York City with headquarters in the Empire State Building and a distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. It owned several brands of Bourbon whiskey , including Schenley, The Old Quaker Company, Cream of Kentucky, Golden Wedding Rye, I.W. Harper , and James E. Pepper . [ 1 ]
Lewis Solon Rosenstiel (21 July 1891 – 21 January 1976) was the founder of Schenley Industries, an American liquor company, and a philanthropist. [1] [2]The Rosenstiel Award, issued by Brandeis University and the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami, is named after him and his wife.
In 1986, Renfield Importers was sold to Schenley Industries, which was itself sold to Guinness the following year. [10] The Reinfeld name is carried on today as a sub-division of New Jersey's largest wine & spirits distributor, Allied Beverage Group.
The senior Chaplin started his business career in spirits with a part-time job in the mailroom at Schenley Industries in an office inside New York’s Empire State Building in 1946, the year he ...
In 1958, Pabst Brewing Company, then the nation's tenth largest brewer, acquired Blatz, the eighteenth largest, from Schenley Industries. In 1959, the federal government brought an action charging that the acquisition violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act as amended by the Celler-Kefauver Anti-Merger amendment. The sale was voided in 1959 and ...
Frank's first wife, Louise "Skippy" Rosenstiel, was the daughter of Lewis Rosenstiel, founder of Schenley Industries, one of the largest American distillers and spirit importers. Frank joined Schenley after his marriage and rose to the company presidency, but was forced out in a family dispute in 1970.
Black Velvet was originally produced at Schenley Industries in Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada. Schenley's Black Velvet DeLuxe was the only liquor available to submarine officers at Midway in World War II , where it was held in low regard and known as "Schenley's Black Death".
In 1963, she met her future husband Lewis S. Rosenstiel, the founder and chair of Schenley Industries and philanthropist, when she was 32 and he was 72. She states that they were both in love with one another. "He was a brilliant and fascinating man—not what some people are saying now," she says.