Mr. Don Deary This is Me

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1. 1. www.beverageworld.com

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   Published on: 1/15/2008   Last Visited: 1/15/2008

   nor-cal Beverage Co., INC.'s president and chairman Donald Deary
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   Roy Deary started the business in 1937 as the Hires Bottling Co. of Sacramento with four employees and a small plant in downtown Sacramento, according to Roy's son, Donald Deary, Nor-Cal president and chairman.
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   When Don and his brother, the late Grant Jr., took over the business in 1963, Don went into production and transportation while Grant took over the sales operations. The close family involvement continues today with the third and fourth generations of the Deary family now working in various positions at the company.
   
   In the 1960s and '70s, Don and Grant recognized the need to diversify the business and began adding vending services, beer distribution (see sidebar on Page 20) and contract packing operations to the company's capabilities, and in the 1980s, a food service division was brought on board.
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   Although the soft drink business was in their blood, as Don says, the family made the ultimate decision to sell its soft drink business.

2. 2. Don Deary, owner-president, Nor-Cal Beverage Co. Inc. - 2004-03-15 - Sacramento Business Journal

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   Published on: 3/15/2004   Last Visited: 3/18/2004

   Don Deary, owner-president, Nor-Cal Beverage Co. Inc.
   
   Don Deary doesn't have much of a job résumé, seeing as how he's worked for only one company for almost 58 years. But then, he doesn't need a job résumé, since he owns the company.
   
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   Deary is owner-president of Nor-Cal Beverage Co. Inc. in West Sacramento. Deary's father, Roy, started the firm in 1937, on 19th Street between K and L in Sacramento, bottling and distributing Hires Root Beer.
   
   The son was 12 when he began working part time for his father, over time doing just about every job in the plant, including hauling garbage, sterilizing bottles, making syrup and washing delivery trucks.
   
   Nor-Cal Beverage now has 760 employees who produce and distribute more than 45 million cases of soft drinks and beer a year, accounting for revenue of "... about $130 million a year," Deary said.
   
   "We do more volume in a day than my dad did in a year when he started," he said.
   
   The firm's growth accelerated in 1963 when it began diversifying, said Deary, adding that "we haven't stopped diversifying and we haven't stopped growing."
   
   And, despite his imminent 70th birthday, he plans to continue overseeing the additional diversification and growth.
   
   "I'm healthy, and I like coming to work," he said.

3. 3. Nor-Cal selling soft-drink line to Pepsi bottler - Sacramento Business Journal:

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   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 1/9/2007

   Cadbury Schweppes, Hansen's Beverage Co., Nor-Cal Beverage Co., Pepsi Bottling Group Inc., Don Deary,
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   "It was a difficult decision to sell this segment of our business," Nor-Cal president Don Deary said in a news release. The company opted to sell because of challenging business conditions and the ability to grow through contract packing opportunities.
   
   Nor-Cal will use some of the proceeds to expand its contract packing capabilities. "Over the next year we intend to build at least one hot-fill packaging line in our West Sacramento bottling facility," Deary said.
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