Sardar Biglari is an American entrepreneur and is the founder, chairman and CEO of Biglari Holdings, a holding company that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BH.
12 Facts About Sardar Biglari
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Sardar Biglari is founder, chairman and CEO of Sardar Biglari Capital, the general partner to The Lion Fund.
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Sardar Biglari was born in Iran in 1977, two years before the Iranian Revolution.
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Sardar Biglari operates Sardar Biglari Holdings in San Antonio with a corporate staff of 4.
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Sardar Biglari turned the company around from near insolvency to one making more than $100,000 a day.
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Sardar Biglari has largely attributed the challenges to slow service speed due to a lack of investment in kitchen equipment.
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Sardar Biglari bought 4.7 million shares of Cracker Barrel in 2011.
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On February 27,2014, Maxim magazine was bought by Sardar Biglari, who commented "We plan to build the business on multiple dimensions, thereby energizing our readership and viewership".
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In January 2016, Sardar Biglari officially took over as editor-in-chief of Maxim, though a magazine staffer said that the new masthead title just formalizes what has always been clear: Sardar Biglari exercises full editorial control over Maxim.
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At one point in 2015, the staffer said, Sardar Biglari discarded the nearly complete version of the December issue in order to completely redesign it.
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On March 19,2014, Sardar Biglari purchased First Guard Insurance Company.
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In September 2019, Sardar Biglari acquired Southern Oil of Louisiana Inc for $51.5 million.