Julia Stewart: Snubbed for Promotion, Later Acquired Firm

[ad_1] Serial entrepreneur and longtime restaurant group chief govt Julia Stewart, 70, goes viral this week for making one in every of "one of the best strikes in management" in relation to enterprise deal comebacks.

After seven years as a senior chief at Taco Bell, Julia Stewart joined Applebee's as president in 1998. She left after three years when she was denied a promotion to CEO, she says, regardless of being promised and incomes the function — throughout her tenure, firm and franchise gross sales skyrocketed, and so did the inventory worth, per Fortune. Quickly after the snub, she joined IHOP as chair and CEO in 2001, per LinkedIn.

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After about six years within the function, in November 2007, IHOP acquired Applebee's for $2.1 billion, and Stewart had a cellphone name to make.

"I known as the chair and CEO of Applebee's, and I stated, 'Simply wished to say hello.' And he stated, 'I used to be anticipating this name,'" Stewart lately instructed The Matthews Mentality Podcast. "And I stated, 'As you understand, this morning, we introduced that we've got bought, for $2.3 billion, the corporate, and we do not want two of us, so I am gonna must allow you to go."

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Stewart would proceed to function the chair and CEO of the father or mother firm, Dine Manufacturers International, for an additional decade.

And at 70, Stewart remains to be working. She's presently a board member at Bojangles, amongst different locations, and the founding father of a wellness app.

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Serial entrepreneur and longtime restaurant group chief govt Julia Stewart, 70, goes viral this week for making one in every of "one of the best strikes in management" in relation to enterprise deal comebacks.

After seven years as a senior chief at Taco Bell, Julia Stewart joined Applebee's as president in 1998. She left after three years when she was denied a promotion to CEO, she says, regardless of being promised and incomes the function — throughout her tenure, firm and franchise gross sales skyrocketed, and so did the inventory worth, per Fortune. Quickly after the snub, she joined IHOP as chair and CEO in 2001, per LinkedIn.

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