J. Christopher Reyes

About Me

Chris Reyes, along with his brother Jude, co-chairs Reyes Holdings, a food and beverage distribution company with over $40 billion in revenues and nearly 30,000 employees. Younger brother Duke Reyes is CEO, while brothers James and Tom are executives at beer distribution subsidiary Reyes Beverage Group. Their father started the company with sons Chris and Jude in 1974 with a small Schlitz beer distributor in South Carolina purchased for $740,000. Divisions include food distributor Martin-Brower, beer distributor Reyes Beverage Group and bottlers Great Lakes Coca-Cola and Reyes Holdings Coca Cola. Reyes Holdings sold its food distribution subsidiary Reinhardt to Performance Food Group in 2019 for $2 billion.