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Net worth: $2 billion (unconfirmed) Michael Kittredge was the founder of Yankee Candle Co., which now has several hundred physical stores and a thriving online business.
It was built by Kittredge’s father, Michael Kittredge II, who made his fortune as the founder of the Yankee Candle Company. Now, the property is on the market for $23 million. Like Juggler...
Kittredge — whose retail line of scented candles, candle holders and home decor accessories sold for $1.75 billion in 2013 — died Wednesday night at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston...
When Michael Kittredge died in April 2019 he was an extremely rich man. By the mid-1990s, that little candle venture launched from a garage was generating $150 million per year in revenue....
In 2015, Newell Rubbermaid announced that it would acquire Jarden for over $15 billion of cash and stock. Yankee Candle Company was started in South Hadley, Massachusetts when Michael Kittredge, originally from Holyoke, Massachusetts, created his first scented candle, Christmas 1969, from melted crayons as a gift for his mother. [6] .
Michael J. Kittredge II used melted color crayons to make his first candle, a gift for his mom. He built his hobby into a business called Yankee Candle and sold most of it for $500 million. Mr.
Michael Kittredge II, the founder of Yankee Candle Company in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, has died after several years of failing health. The self-made business leader was known as an innovator and philanthropist, as well as a fun dad and generous friend.
Besides Yankee Candle, which he sold in 1998 for $500 million, he helped his son, Michael J. “Mick” Kittredge III, start Kringle Candle in Bernardston and was well known for his philanthropy,...
Michael J. “Mike” Kittredge II, the founder of the Yankee Candle Company, passed away Wednesday. He was 67 years old. Kittredge began making candles 50 years ago in the garage of his childhood...
But the beauty of Yankee Candle founder Michael Kittredge’s life and career - one of its many wondrous aspects, at least - was that it really did happen and in Western Massachusetts, where...