James Bruce Llewellyn is Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Llewellyn was born in Harlem, his parents having immigrated to America from Jamaica. After serving in the United States Army, at age 21 he opened a retail store in Harlem and attended college at the same time, earning a Bachelor’s degree from The City University of New York. Llewellyn received his Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1960 and also earned an M.B.A. degree at Columbia University, and a degree in public administration at New York University. In 1969, Llewellyn bought Fedco Foods Corporation, a chain of ten food stores in the South Bronx. By 1984, when he sold Fedco, it had become the nation’s largest minority-owned retail business.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Llewellyn as president of OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation). With the rank of U.S. Ambassador at large, Llewellyn held this position from 1977 through 1981. In 1983, he purchased The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and in 1988, the Coca-Cola bottling operations in Wilmington, Delaware, of which he remains Chairman and the majority stockholder. Llewellyn was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation.

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