Smolyansky started the multimillion-dollar health food company based on kefir.
Julie Smolyansky, president and CEO of Lifeway Foods, said: “10 years ago, on 9 June 2002, I experienced one of the most tragic days of my life when my father, Lifeway Foods founder Michael Smolyansky, passed away unexpectedly.
“An engineer by trade, my father especially loved to construct and create. He built Lifeway Foods from the ground up and took it public in 1988 – the first immigrant from the Soviet Union to ever do so.
“He spent hours in the local public library researching the stock market – at that point, he was still unfamiliar with terms like IPO.”
Source: Lifeway Foods
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