How Bush’s Built A Billion-Dollar Family Fortune From America’s Favorite Baked Beans

BusinessFood & DrinkDaily CoverHow Bush’s Built A Billion-Dollar Family Fortune From America’s Favorite Baked BeansFamily Matters: “We're proud to be family-owned,” fourth-generation chairman Drew Everett says of Bush's. “We want to remain family-owned and that has been a consistent theme."Fab Fernandez for ForbesByChloe Sorvino,Forbes Staff. Chloe Sorvino is a New York-based Forbes staff writer who covers food.Follow AuthorMay 24, 2026, 06:00am EDTWhat began as a small general store in Tennessee more than a century ago has grown into a bean behemoth perfectly aligned for the GLP-1 era. Now fourth-generation chairman Drew Everett is a man with big plans for all those cans.@font-face{font-family: "Highlander"; src: url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/highlander/highlander-bold.woff2") format("woff2"); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal;} @font-face{font-family: "Merriweather"; src: url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/merriweather/merriweather-bold-webfont.woff2") format("woff2"), url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/merriweather/merriweather-bold-webfont.woff") format("woff"); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal;} @font-face{font-family: "Graphik"; src: url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/graphik/graphik-bold.woff2") format("woff2"), url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/graphik/graphik-bold.woff") format("woff"); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal;} @font-face{font-family: "Highlander"; src: url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/highlander/highlander-regular.woff2") format("woff2"); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;} @font-face{font-family: "Merriweather"; src: url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/merriweather/merriweather-regular-webfont.woff2") format("woff2"), url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/merriweather/merriweather-regular-webfont.woff") format("woff"); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;} @font-face{font-family: "Graphik"; src: url("https://i.forbesimg.com/assets/fonts/graphik/graphik-...