Chester H. Roth (April 13, 1902 – July 26, 1977)[1] was an American businessman who founded the Chester H. Roth Company and served as president and CEO of its successor Kayser-Roth Corporation.
Biography
Roth was raised in a Jewish family in New York City where he attended the New York Textile School.[2] As a youth, he worked at the General Merchandise Exchange, a clothing distributor, where In 1925, he started The Chester H. Roth Company, a hosiery manufacturer.[2] In 1958, he merged his company with the Julius Kayser Company which began as a manufacturer of silk gloves and later expanded into lingerie, swimwear and hosiery.[2] The new entity, the Kayser-Roth