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About the only thing Cloud “Bud” Cray Jr. hasn’t been involved with at MGP Ingredients Inc. in the past 74 years was founding the company.
His father, Cloud Cray Sr., started the Atchison-based distillery in 1941. Cray Jr. officially joined the company as an executive in 1947, and he didn’t end his involvement until this month, when he officially retired from the board. It means Cray Jr. played an integral role at the company for nearly seven decades, an incredible run.
He tried several…