Mitzi Perdue, the double-heiress of Sheraton Hotels and Perdue Farms, grew up wearing hand-me-downs and getting a public education. She's quick to draw her purse strings by flying economy, riding the ...

BALTIMORE -- Frank Perdue, who built one of the world's biggest chicken companies by appearing in TV commercials that seemed to play off his remarkable resemblance to the product he sold, has died at ...

He was known to millions as the tough man who made a tender chicken. Poultry industry giant Frank Perdue has died after a brief illness.At the time of his death Thursday at age 84, Perdue was the ...

Salisbury, Md. - The Delmarva Shorebirds are extremely excited to announce that Frank Perdue will be inducted into the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame at the All-Star Game Luncheon on June 21 at ...

SALISBURY, Md. (AP) - Poultry industry giant Frank Perdue has died after a brief illness. He was 84. At the time of his death yesterday, Perdue was the chairman of the executive committee of the board ...

Frank Perdue was famous for taking his father-and-son chicken farm from no employees to 20,000. What he was less known for was being entrepreneurial about charity.