Bettiann Gardner founded Chicago-based Soft Sheen Products with her husband, Edward, and helped build it into the country’s largest Black-owned hair care company. She also worked with her ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Many are mourning the loss of Edward Gardner, a Chicago titan in business ... Gardiner and his wife, Bettiann, founded Soft Sheen in 1964. The company grew exponentially, and ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Bettiann Gardner Provided Share ... She and her husband, Edward G. Gardner, who passed away in March, founded Soft Sheen Products Inc., which they ran out ...

Bettiann Gardner, co-founder of Soft Sheen ... s Disease and her husband and decades-long business partner, Edward Gardner, died in March 2023. The pair started Soft Sheen together in 1964 ...

Provided Share Edward Gardner’s early efforts at making Black ... Guy and Tracy, his wife, Bettiann, seven grandchildren and a great-grandson. A private family service is planned.

Edward Gardner took a risk when ... In 1964, Gardner decided to leave education to start Soft Sheen with his wife, Bettiann. “There were people concerned that he was leaving a good job at ...

Beloved Chicago philanthropist Edward Gardner, the co-founder of Soft Sheen Products hair care company, died Monday at age 98, CBS News reports. Gardner and his wife Bettiann founded the company ...

“My father saw the untapped potential of his community. He believed that with access to opportunity, hard work, a quality education and safe neighborhoods, there is nothing we can’t achieve.” ...