Herman Lay Founder of Lay’s Inc
Herman Lay Founder of Lay’s Inc

Biography of Herman Lay

Early Life

Herman Lay Founder of Lay’s Inc was a famous business tycoon of America. He was born in the year of 1909 on March 6th in Charlotte, North Carolina in United States of America. His father Jesse N. Lay was working for international harvester. His family moved to Columbia, South Carolina when he was very young. He studied at his home first and then attended the local school but again after some years his family migrated to Greenville in South Carolina. The repetitive migrations didn’t let him to continue his education properly but somehow he managed to get admission in Furman University by getting a grant of a sports scholarship but he couldn’t complete his bachelors and left the university after sometime.

Interest in Business

Due to his family’s financial problems, he started work in very young age. He started his career in a biscuit factory named as Sunshine biscuits but he was fired from there for improper behavior. After that, he started his own business of selling potato chips to customers which later on led him to founding of a famous chips company named as Lay’s.  His interest in business was the main thing which let him to be the cofounder of PepsiCo Inc and the founder of Lay’s Inc.

Founder of Lay’s Inc

Herman Lay is widely credited as the founder of Lay’s Inc. and co founder of PepsiCo Int. With a lot of failures in business and some jobs he thought to start his own business of selling chips. To make his idea practical he started to sell his own homemade chips to common people in trains and buses. This idea was giving his something but he was not getting as much as he wanted. As a result, he registered his company named as Lay’s in 1932 and introduced many new products which made it a famous food company.

Lay’s Inc

Lay’s Inc. named on the name of its owner Herman Lay was introduced in the year of 1932. In first two decades after its introduction, this company was nowhere in tales but after the year of 1957, Herman lay introduced his new food product named potato chips with a variety of tastes and this thing made it a famous food company in sudden. Presently Lay’s is one of the largest selling potato chips brands and a well known food company.

Death

Herman Lay was a very famous business tycoon of United States and his business was not just limited founding of Lay’s and PepsiCo Inc. He died in the year of 1982 on December 6th in the age of 72 years.