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Out To Lunch

Out To Lunch: Barq's BQuick

By Peter Ricchiuti
Published October 17, 2013 at 1:00 PM CDT
Grant Morris
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It's New Orleans
John Koerner, Charles Allen and Peter Ricchiuti.

Investor John Koerner's bet on Barq's Root Beer paid off when he grew the company big enough to sell to Coca-Cola. Charles Allen's local sports supplements venture, BQuick Nutrition, is following in Barq's footsteps.

Plus, Koerner and Allen pay it forward to online wellness startup Get Healthy.

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Peter Ricchiuti
Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.
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