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Two prominent Utah business leaders Osborne Jay Call and James Lee Sorenson will be inducted into the Utah Business Hall of Fame Monday evening.
The honor recognizes leaders whose vision and innovation have had an impact on Utah, Phil Cofield, Junior Achievement of Utah president, said in a news release.
"They are those whose lives most inspire others to great things," he said.
Call worked in the petroleum industry for more than 45 years designing and creating retail fueling properties, including self-service stations, convenience stores and truck stops.
He grew his company from the inside and from out, making several major petroleum industry acquisitions, the release said.
In 1979, Call opened the first Flying J travel plaza. Catering to professional drivers, his travel plazas were an immediate success along interstate highways nationwide.
Sorenson founded Sorenson Media. The release said he has worked to unite innovative ideas with talented management teams to produce a number of growing new enterprises. The result has been vibrant companies and thousands of new jobs in the state.
Over the past decades, Sorenson also built an array of highly successful industrial, commercial, residential, office and real estate properties. And in 2009, while co-founding Sorenson Capital, a Utah-based midmarket private equity firm, he raised more than $650 million to invest.
Junior Achievement of Utah established the Utah Business Hall of Fame in 1990 to recognize past and present business leaders for their contributions to the state.
Utah Business Hall of Fame
Previously Inducted Hall of Fame laureates include:
Jerry C. Atkin
Dale H. Ballard*
John Moses Browning*
Joseph A. Cannon
R. D. "Don" Cash
William H. Child
George S. Eccles*
Marriner S. Eccles*
Spencer F. Eccles
Eugene K. England
William K. England
John W. "Jack" Gallivan
Kendall Day Garff*
Richard K. Hemingway*
R. Earl Holding
Jon M. Huntsman
Ellis R. Ivory
B.Z. Kastler
Fred P. Lampropoulos
Larry H. Miller
June M. Morris
Raymond J. Noorda
Scott S. Parker
Richard S. Prows
Rhoda Ramsey
Robert L. Rice
R. Thayne Robson*
Joseph Rosenblatt
Roy W. Simmons
Hyrum W. Smith
James Levoy Sorenson
N. Eldon Tanner*
Obert C. Tanner
I.J. "Izzi" Wagner*
Honorary Laureate
Secretary Health & Human Services:
Mike Leavitt
* inducted posthumously