The others returned home he saved enough to move to Alaska and buy a crab boat, then used the proceeds from that venture to found Trident, with two partners, in 1973.
Bundrant was just 19 when he joined three friends on a summer road trip to Seattle, where they worked in a seafood cannery to make money for school. He was 79.Ī spokeswoman for his company, Trident Seafoods, confirmed the death but did not specify the cause. Chuck Bundrant, who went to Alaska as a poor college dropout from Tennessee and proceeded to build America’s largest seafood company, along the way using his political connections and endless competitive energy to bring order to his often anarchic industry, died on Oct.
