CORPORATE & ASSOCIATION HISTORIES

Delaware North

BOOK:  THE SEVENTH CHILD: 100 Years of Delaware North

In the early 1900s, three spunky young brothers—Marvin, Charlie and Lou Jacobs—sold advertising, concessions and more in the theaters, parks and baseball fields of Buffalo, New York. A century later, their tiny enterprise is now giant Delaware North, a third-generation privately-held company that serves a half billion guests annually at restaurants, hotels, airports, parks, casinos and hotels on four continents. The Seventh Child celebrates the story of the Jacobs family’s rise from poor immigrants to become one of the nation’s biggest homegrown business successes.