AutoZone team surprises founder with nearly $7M donation for museum
Bill Rhodes, right, longtime AutoZone CEO, who held the position for nearly two decades, honors AutoZone founder Pitt Hyde, left, during a surprise party by current employees and retirees. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Pitt Hyde was told he’d be filming an interview with AutoZone leaders. Instead, he was welcomed to a party with about 100 past and present AutoZone employees.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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