Richard S. Reynolds Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRichard S. Reynolds Sr.
American businessman
Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1881
Place of Birth: Madison County, North Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Richard S. Reynolds Sr.
- Richard Samuel Reynolds Sr.
- was the founder of the U.S.
- Foil Company. Reynolds was born on August 15, 1881 in Madison County, North Carolina.
- He was the nephew of leading tobacco producer R.J.
- Reynolds and the son of Major Abraham David Reynolds (August 13, 1847 – September 1925).
- He married Julia Louise Parham on December 21, 1904.
- Reynolds was the father of Richard S.
- Reynolds Jr.
- (1909–1969) was the founder of Reynolds & Co., a brokerage firm that merged with Dean Witter & Co.
- in 1978 to form Dean Witter Reynolds. Reynolds left the University of Virginia in 1903 to join the R.
- J.
- Reynolds Tobacco Company, working for his uncle, who had founded the company.
- Reynolds was in part responsible for the company's switch from the production of chewing to smoking tobacco and the launch of Camel cigarettes.
- In 1912, Reynolds left R.J.
- Reynolds to go into business for himself. Shortly after World War I, Reynolds founded the U.S.
- Foil Company in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Among the company's early partners were R.J.
- Reynolds and the British-American Tobacco Company.
- The company's original business was to roll tin and lead foil for cigarette packaging.
- Among other innovations, Reynolds devised a moisture-preserving tobacco tin. Later the switch to aluminum foil was made.
- In 1947, his company introduced Reynolds Wrap.
- It was sold around the world, it transformed food storage.
- Reynolds Metals was the second-largest aluminum company in the United States and the third-largest in the world.
- The Richmond, Virginia, company was bought by ALCOA in 2000.
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