Chester H. Roth (April 13, 1902 – July 26, 1977)[1] was an American businessman who founded the Chester H. Roth Company and served as president and CEO of its successor Kayser-Roth Corporation.
[2] As a youth, he worked at the General Merchandise Exchange, a clothing distributor, where In 1925, he started The Chester H. Roth Company, a hosiery manufacturer.
[2] After the purchase, Roth remained on as chairman and CEO of Kayser-Roth and served as a director at Gulf & Western.
[2] In 1993, Kayser-Roth was sold to Mexican hosiery manufacturer Grupo Synkro for US$230,000,000.
[3] He served on the Board of Overseers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as chairman of the executive committee of the New York Anti-Defamation League Appeal, as a director of the North Carolina Textile Foundation, and as an honorary member of the New York Academy of Science.