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Mar 23, 2018 · He cracked Forbes’ list of the 100 richest Americans, becoming chairman of Republic Services, one of the nation’s top waste management companies, and AutoNation, the nation’s largest automotive...
Mar 6, 2018 · At 25, Huizenga started a waste pickup service, and within 5 years had consolidated 100 other pickup companies into giant Waste Management.
Mar 23, 2018 · H. Wayne Huizenga, the founder of Waste Management Inc., died at age 80 on March 22 at his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home after succumbing to "a decades-long battle with cancer," Bob...
In 1968, Harm's grandson Wayne Huizenga and two other investors, Dean Buntrock and Larry Beck, had a vision. They wanted to serve their community by properly managing the waste produced by a rapidly growing population consuming more and more products built for convenience.
- Starting Young
- Waste Management, Inc
- From Founding to Finding and Funding
- Other Corporations
- The Formula
- Not Without Controversy
- Awards and Recognition
Wayne Huizengawas born in a Chicago suburb in 1937 and moved to Florida in his teens. After his parents divorced, he lived with his mother, driving a truck and pumping gas after school and on weekends to help with expenses. Following a brief sting in the army and college, Wayne Huizenga left school to work with a family friend who owned a garbage c...
Wayne Huizenga was legendary for his hard work. When first starting out, he would drive the truck from 2:30 am until noon then spend the rest of the day knocking on doors and introducing himself to drum up new business. The company grew to 40 trucks locally, then merged with another business in Chicago to form Waste Management Inc under Wayne Huize...
Great entrepreneurs don't just start businesses—and Wayne Huizenga knew this all too well. Sometimes they see the potential in an underdeveloped company and buy it to develop it. It is what he and two partners did in 1987 with Blockbuster. Following a similar model to WMI, Wayne Huizenga took the company public in 1989 and launched into rapid growt...
Following the Blockbuster sale, he created AutoNation, the first nationwide auto dealer in the U.S., now with 370 dealerships, and the first to go public. Next, he created Extended Stay America, which grew to 62 locations in its first year, and nearly 500 hotels by the time it sold in 2004. Wayne Huizenga also re-entered the waste management field ...
The key to Huizenga's success is a formula that he has proven what works time and time again. He focuses on service industries, mostly that have recurring income: dumpster rental, trash collection, video rental, etc. Even with AutoNation, there's no big manufacturing plant, and the emphasis of the model is on customer service. Most of all, Wayne Hu...
But Wayne Huizenga is not without his detractors. A 1994 articlein the Miami New Times dug up a pile of dirt (both actual and alleged), including an early assault case in which he had roughed up a sales prospect who refused to do business with him (Huizenga lost the civil suit); climbing his way to success at the expense of others; ties with organi...
But regardless of the skeletons in his closet, there's no arguing with Wayne Huizenga's business success. In 1992, he received the Horatio Alger Award, given to honor Americans who have overcome adversity to achieve great success. Wayne Huizenga is also a five-time recipient of Financial World Magazine’s “CEO of the Year.” He was named Ernst & Youn...
He founded AutoNation and Waste Management Inc., and was the owner or co-owner of Blockbuster Video, the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL), the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Florida Marlins, (now Miami Marlins), of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Mar 23, 2018 · Wayne Huizenga, a billionaire who made Waste Management Inc.and Blockbuster Video the leaders in their industries and used his wealth to buy professional baseball, football and hockey...
