{"id":1088,"date":"2007-09-03T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/papa-jack-weil-the-oldest-ceo-great-labor-day-story\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:07:00","slug":"papa-jack-weil-the-oldest-ceo-great-labor-day-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/papa-jack-weil-the-oldest-ceo-great-labor-day-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Papa Jack Weil, the oldest CEO, great Labor Day story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to professional speaker <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robinjohnston.com\/name.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">Robin C. Johnston<\/a>, an expert at sales, marketing and fundraising, for tipping us off to a perfect Labor Day story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A news article just aired on TV about Papa Jack Weil,\u00a0CEO of a Denver-based company.\u00a0 Papa Jack recently turned 106 years old and is believed to be the world&#8217;s oldest working CEO.\u00a0 Interviewed for the story, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said, &#8216;Papa Jack Weil shows that if you&#8217;re a good entrepreneur and you&#8217;re doing your business in Denver, Colorado, you can live a long time.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought this was a GREAT pitch for Denver from an obviously media-savvy mayor. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree, Robin.\u00a0I also noticed that the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denver.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Metro Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau<\/a>\u00a0has wisely capitalized on his success with press releases like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denver.org\/default.aspx?tpurl=&amp;spurl=error\" rel=\"noopener\">this one. <\/a>\u00a0This is a fabulous Labor Day angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to professional speaker Robin C. Johnston, an expert at sales, marketing and fundraising, for tipping us off to a perfect Labor Day story: &#8220;A news article just aired on TV about Papa Jack Weil,\u00a0CEO of a Denver-based company.\u00a0 Papa Jack recently turned 106 years old and is believed to be the world&#8217;s oldest working\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/papa-jack-weil-the-oldest-ceo-great-labor-day-story\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[601,605,13,607],"class_list":{"0":"post-1088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-holidays","8":"tag-news-events","9":"tag-press-releases","10":"tag-promotions","11":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40888,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/40888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}