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Marguerite Chen
Founder & CEO — Chen & Sons Logistics
Marguerite bought a failing freight house in 2002 with a second mortgage and a two-truck fleet. Today Chen & Sons runs fourteen distribution hubs and employs four thousand people — without ever carrying outside debt. Hooligans Holdings became a minority partner in 2014.
- 2002
- Founded
- 4,000
- Employees
- 14
- Hubs
The story, in their own words.
“Nobody wanted the company. The trucks were older than my kids and the books were kept in a shoebox. But the drivers knew every dock manager in the state by first name — that was the asset.”
“When Hooligans came in, the first thing they asked wasn’t about margins. It was whether I intended to keep running it for another twenty years. I said yes. That was the whole negotiation.”
- Sector
- Freight & warehousing
- Holding
- Significant minority
- Headquarters
- Columbus, Ohio