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Brad Reese

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
143 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

And that was a $19 billion deal.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

We had it locked up.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

Hershey was going to buy it.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

And Richard Lenny, the former chairman and CEO of the Hershey company, was a financial advisor to Centerview Partners, which was advising Kraft on a competing bid against Hershey.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

And not only that, Richard Lenny, the former chairman and CEO of Hershey, was also the mentor of his protege, Dave West, who was then the CEO of Hershey.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

And Dave West killed the deal and never went through.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

Kraft bought it, which then Kraft then split into two called Mondelez.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

That Mondelez ended up with a Cadbury line.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

But then Dave West, who killed the deal for Hershey and lost a lifetime opportunity, became a general partner at Centerview Partners.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

I mean, talk about a conflict of interest.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

So anyway, so there's a lot of bad blood.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

You have to understand.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

Chocolate wars.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

Yeah, the Reese family has been creating the wealth there.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

And so the stock is doing very well.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

The stock at Hershey now is doing very well.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

Wall Street loves it when you increase your margins at whatever cost to the public.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

It's long term is what I'm getting at.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

It's going to not work out long term.

The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer | 2/24/26

But thank you for everything.