Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches was born out of Jimmy John Liautaud’s passion for food and for entrepreneurship . Liautaud now uses his success to help others follow their passions. Since 2014, Liautaud and his wife, Leslie, have supported Camp Southern Ground, a non-profit project founded by Grammy Award-winning artist Zac Brown, which celebrated its first […]
Every Wednesday is tasting day at Jimmy John’s headquarters and Jimmy John Liautaud is the top taster. Jimmy doesn’t wear a fancy suit to work; instead he looks like a regular guy in jeans and an untucked shirt. This week he’s trying ten sandwiches, six deli meats and new cookies. The first baguette passes the […]
Christmas came early for more than three hundred customers who had items on layaway at Walmarts in central Illinois. On the last day to pick up their layaway items, they were greeted with the news that their bills, totalling $80,000, had been paid in full by a Secret Santa. The Secret Santa turned out to […]
On a Saturday in October, Jimmy John Liautaud flew to Columbus, Nebraska to make his own delivery. He gifted Jimmy John’s driver, Zach Hillmer, with a new Ford Escape after he responded to a call and gave a veteran a ride to the hospital. A few days prior, Lisa Nagengast was flying home to help […]
In Fall of 2018, Jimmy John Liautaud was included on the Forbes list of the World’s Wealthiest People with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion after selling majority stake of Jimmy John’s to Roark Capital for an undisclosed amount. With a lot of hard work, Jimmy turned a small loan from his father into […]
The past year has been an exciting one for the Jimmy John’s marketing department. In Fall 2017, Jimmy John’s hired its first CMO since 2007, John Shea. John had years of experience in the food and beverage industry, previously working at PepsiCo for 12 years then becoming the head of global markets at Gatorade before […]
Jimmy Liautaud fielded questions from want-to-be entrepreneurs about starting and growing a business at the Champaign Public Library. Jimmy’s talk at the library was the first in a series called Launch at the Library. The program is part of the library’s effort to better serve the community and help those who wish to start or […]
Jimmy and Leslie Liautaud started the Liautaud Family Foundation with the primary mission of helping people help themselves. They donate to both national and local organizations that embody this mission. One of these organizations is Crisis Nursery, a nonprofit that provides 24-hour emergency care for children in order to prevent child abuse and neglect. The […]
Jimmy John Liautaud was selected as one of the 12 recipients of the 2018 Horatio Alger Award. The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc. is an educational nonprofit that encourages youth to pursue their dreams through higher education. The program is grounded in the belief of hard work, determination, and honesty can conquer all […]
