Successful entrepreneur and businessman Drayton McLane Jr. spoke to business students this semester at the McLane College of Business, encouraging them to always focus on moving forward and never remaining stagnate.
“I encourage you to expand your thoughts and to move forward and think how you can live a more caring, interesting and challenging life,” he encouraged students.
McLane told the students how getting his degrees at Baylor University and Michigan State University helped propel him forward to take on and grow his family’s grocery distribution business into the McLane Company, an international firm he led as president and CEO for 30 years. He grew McLane Co. into a $19 billion company before it merged with Walmart in 1990.
