ENRICO JOINS BELO BOARD OF DIRECTORS.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1995--A. H. Belo Corporation announced toda that its Board of Directors elected Roger A. Enrico as a Class II director to serve until the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders in May 1997. Mr. Enrico, 50, is chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo Worldwide Restaurants and vice chairman of the board of PepsiCo Inc., one of the largest and most successful consumer products companies in the world. Belo chairman, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Robert W. Decherd said, "The directors and officers of Belo feel privileged to have Roger Enrico become a member of the Board. Mr. Enrico is one of the most distinguished and imaginative executives in American business today. He brings to Belo's future a broad understanding of societal trends in addition to unparalleled market and strategy instincts." Mr. Enrico has played a key role in PepsiCo's development throughout his 24-year career with the corporation. He began his PepsiCo career in the marketing department at Frito-Lay. Mr. Enrico later held senior positions in marketing and sales at Pepsi-Cola and served in top positions internationally, including in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. for Pepsi-Cola International and as President of Frito-Lay/Japan. Before he assumed his current position, Mr. Enrico was chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Worldwide Foods, the corporation's international snack business and its largest contributor to profits. Mr. Enrico has also served as chairman and CEO of Frito-Lay, the corporation's domestic snack food business; president and CEO of PepsiCo Worldwide Beverages; and president of Pepsi-Cola USA. While at Pepsi-Cola, he documented his career in a book, "The Other Guy Blinked -- How Pepsi Won the Cola Wars." Mr. Enrico was elected to the PepsiCo Board of Directors in 1987. Mr. Enrico serves on the boards of directors of Dayton Hudson Corporation, The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Inc. and the United Negro College Fund The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is a Fairfax, Virginia-based American philanthropic organization that fundraises college tuition money for African-American students and general scholarship funds for 39 historically black colleges and universities. . He is a member of the Babson College Corporation and the executive board of the Dallas Symphony Association. Mr. Enrico is a graduate of Babson College with a bachelor's degree in finance, and he holds an honorary doctorate of law from Babson. Belo owns The Dallas Morning News; DFW DFW Dallas/Ft Worth, TX, USA - Dallas Ft Worth International (Airport Code) DFW Department of Fish and Wildlife DFW David Foster Wallace DFW Drug-Free Workplace DFW Down For Whatever (song by Pretty Young Things) Suburban Newspapers, Inc., publisher of eight community newspapers; and DFW Printing Company, Inc. Belo also owns and operates network-affiliated television stations WFAA- TV (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ) in Dallas-Fort Worth; KHOU-TV (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. )in Houston, Texas; KIRO-TV (UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation ) in Seattle-Tacoma, Washington; KXTV (ABC) in Sacramento, California; WVEC-TV (ABC) in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia; WWL-TV (CBS) in New Orleans, Louisiana; and KOTV (CBS) in Tulsa, Oklahoma; as well as Belo Productions, Inc. (BPI); and is the majority partner in Maxam Entertainment. Shares of Belo Series A Common Stock are traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol BLC BLC Boston Library Consortium BLC Bethany Lutheran College (Minnesota) BLC Back Light Compensation (video cameras) BLC Belo Corporation (stock symbol) BLC Broadband Loop Carrier . CONTACT: A.H. Belo Corporation Michael Perry, 214/977-6622 Harold Gaar, 214/977-7650 |
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