Jack Aronson, the founder of Garden Fresh Gourmet, is attempting to buy back the Ferndale-based business four years after selling it to Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB)
It’s not about the money for Aronson. His motivation is to keep the company in Ferndale and to preserve jobs for the roughly 450 people who work there, he said.
“While I decided a few years ago to sell Garden Fresh so that I’d be in a position to invest more into our community, the company has always remained my baby, and I worry about it,” he said.
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