Two decades ago Paul Newman mixed up some salad dressing in a tub in his basement and bottled it for gifts. What to do with the stuff left over? He and a longtime pal, author A. E. Hotch-ner, wondered if they could sell it to a local grocer. They found a store to hawk it―Stew Leonard's, the huge supermarket―and a bottler. They sold 10,000 bottles of Newman's Own in just two weeks. The rest, as they might say, is charity. Their company is now a huge business, selling dressing, pasta sauce, popcorn and more in eight countries―and they give away all its profits to thousands of organizations, including the Hole in the Wall Gang camps they created for children with serious illnesses. Newman and Hotchner maintain they don't know beans about business, but they have just written the story of their remarkable enterprise: "Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good." NEWSWEEK'S Jennifer Barrett spoke with the accidental entrepreneurs.
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机译：二十年前Paul Newman混在他的地下室中的一些沙拉酱，并为礼物装瓶。剩下的东西怎么办？他和一个长期的朋友，作者A. E. Hotch-ner，想知道他们是否可以将其卖给当地的杂货店。他们发现一家商店到鹰，巨大的超市 - 和一个装瓶。他们在短短两周内销售了10,000瓶纽曼自己。他们可能会说，其余的是慈善机构。他们的公司现在是一个巨大的业务，销售敷料，面食，爆米花等八个国家 - 他们将所有的利润放在数千个组织中，包括他们为具有严重疾病的儿童创造的墙壁阵营中的洞。纽曼和热送人保持他们不知道关于业务的豆类，但他们只是写了他们非凡的企业的故事：“追求共同的善意的剥削剥削。”新闻周刊的詹妮弗巴雷特与意外企业家谈过。
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