Jimmy Lee Jr

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James C. Lee, Jr (born c. 1919 - died February 28, 2009) was the CEO of Buffalo Rock Company and a community leader.

Lee took the helm of the company his father founded and built it into a major force in the bottling industry. Under his watch, which began in 1951, Buffalo Rock became the distributor of Pepsi, Dr Pepper and Seven-Up. In the 1960s, he built the company's bottling plant on Oxmoor Road, at the time the nation's most modern.

Lee retired in 2004, handing the company over to his son, Jimmy Lee III. At that time, Buffalo Rock had expanded to become a company with annual sales topping $500 million, plants in three states and 2,500 workers, including 800 in his hometown.

Lee served in leadership roles for the Metropolitan Development Board, the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Birmingham-Southern College Board of Trustees and the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation.

References

  • Tomberlin, Michael (March 2, 2009) "Jimmy Lee Jr., former Buffalo Rock Co. chief, dies." Birmingham News
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