John W. A. "Doc" Buyers
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John William Amerman "Doc" Buyers (born July 17, 1928, in Coatesville, Lancaster County, Pa. - died May 20, 2006) was an American businessman. He was best known as the chairman and chief executive officer of the Hawaii company C. Brewer & Co.. Buyers was a 1952 graduate of Princeton University.
[edit] Background
Buyers was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania as the youngest of five children. As a Princeton Tiger football player, he received from his teammates the nickname "Doc," after West Point's Felix Anthony "Doc" Blanchard.
[edit] Career
Buyers came to Hawaii in 1975 as an executive with International Utilities. He was sent to head C. Brewer, a Hawaii-based company in which IU had acquired a majority stake. In 1986, Buyers organized a leveraged buyout of C. Brewer and became chairman and CEO of the newly independent company. Buyers would continue as head of the company until its dissolution in 2001. In 1996, Buyers announced plans to relocate the company's headquarters to Hilo in 1998 [1].
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