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Elihu Menashe Blachowitz (April 9, 1921 – February 3, 1975) was an American businessman. He controlled the United Brands Company. [1] . His son Leon Black co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management . Early life and education. Born Elihu Menashe Blachowitz in Poland, he immigrated to the United States as a child.
Feb 4, 1975 · Eli M. Black, chairman of the billion‐dollar United Brands Company, which has vast interests in bananas and meatpacking and other enterprises, plunged to his death at 8 A. M....
Eli M. Black was known by peers to be a controlled, unemotional man, and a fierce competitor on Wall Street. Born in Poland as Elihu Blachomitz, he moved to America while a young boy. He came from a long line of Rabbi’s, and during his early years he was determined to continue the ‘family business.’
Feb 14, 1975 · The day after Eli M. Black died, a suicide at the age of 53, a notice appeared in the papers. It announced that a West German chemical concern had bought a major subsidiary from the United Brands...
At 8 a.m. on February 3, 1975, Eli Black leapt to his death from the 44th floor of Manhattan’s Pan Am building. The immigrant-turned-CEO of United Brands—formerly United Fruit, now Chiquita—Black seemed an embodiment of the American dream.
Apr 26, 2023 · A worthy target for Friedman might have included the enigmatic businessman, Eli M. Black. In that same year, 1970, Black, a former rabbi, became the new “banana king” when he acquired the hemisphere’s most notorious food company, United Fruit, known as “el pulpo” (the octopus) for its invasive business practices across Latin America.
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I am currently working on a biography of Eli Black, the former Chief Executive Officer of United Brands Corporation who, on February 3, 1975, committed suicide by throwing himself from the 44th floor of the Pan American Building (now, MetLife) in midtown Manhattan.
