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Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Business Leader Profile.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2002
By Jessica Guynn, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 15--He has played high-stakes professional poker, driven a cab, managed a blues band, traded commodity futures on Wall Street. But Stuart Skorman's true career path really began in his boyhood bedroom in Akron, Ohio, where, surrounded by toy soldiers and parakeets, a future entrepreneur dreamed up business ventures. His latest -- Elephant Pharmacy, a new twist on the American drug store -- is another in a long line of businesses that have earned Skorman a reputation as something of a retail visionary.
The fast-talking, fast-moving Skorman, descended from Russian Jewish merchants, helped successfully position the natural food store concept against...
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