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GIVE THE CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY ASK FOR George L. Cagle was a pioneer in the North Georgia Poultry business. After moving to Atlanta from the farm, he worked in many areas of the egg and poultry industry. In 1945, he decided it was time to concentrate on a business of his own.
With $8,000 and the help of his wife Letty and son J. Douglas, he set up a poultry shop in the Five Points area of downtown Atlanta. Service was personal. George Cagle could help his customers pick out the live chicken they wanted, then process it the way they wanted, while they waited. Cagle also sold his freshly processed poultry to hotels, hospitals and restaurants. His son Douglas, now Chairman and CEO of the company, was a teenager when the shop began and already skilled at many of the jobs in the poultry business. He jokes about the early growth. "The first day, the only employee was my father. The second day, the number of employees tripled- we added my mother and myself." The first week, the company produced 25,000 pounds. That amounts to a little over 15 minutes' output of the Cagle's of today.
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