Chester H. Roth (April 13, 1902 – July 26, 1977) was an American businessman who founded the Chester H. Roth Company and served as president and CEO of its successor

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Corporation.

Biography

Roth was raised in a

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family in

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where he attended the New York Textile School. As a youth, he worked at the General Merchandise Exchange, a clothing distributor, where In 1925, he started The Chester H. Roth Company, a hosiery manufacturer. In 1958, he merged his company with the

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Company which began as a manufacturer of silk gloves and later expanded into lingerie, swimwear and hosiery. The new entity, the

Corporation had sales of $56 million and by the time that Roth sold the company to Gulf & Western in 1975, sales had grown to $505 million. After the purchase, Roth remained on as chairman and CEO of Kayser-Roth and served as a director at Gulf & Western. In 1993, Kayser-Roth was sold to Mexican hosiery manufacturer Grupo Synkro for US$230,000,000. He served on the Board of Overseers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as chairman of the executive committee of the New York

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Appeal, as a director of the North Carolina Textile Foundation, and as an honorary member of the New York Academy of Science. Roth was married to Janet Falk Roth (preceded him in death); they had three children, David J. Roth, Andrea Roth, and Lynn Roth Cott. He married again to Yvonne Russell‐Farrow. Roth died at the Hotel Pierre in

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; services were held at Temple Emanu‐El in Manhattan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roth, Chester H. 1902 births 1977 deaths American textile industry businesspeople 20th-century American Jews 20th-century American businesspeople American company founders