Throughout his career, Ted Turner has received recognition for his entrepreneurial acumen, sharp business skills, leadership qualities and his unprecedented philanthropy. Now the philanthropist, environmentalist, rancher and outdoorsman is promoting his love of Big Sky Country and its tradition of hearty food through a restaurant company called Ted's Montana Grill.

Turner is chairman of Turner Enterprises Inc., a private company which manages his business interests, land holdings and investments, including the oversight of 2 million acres in 12 states and in Argentina, and more than 50,000 bison head. The mission of Turner Enterprises is to manage Turner lands in an economically sustainable and ecologically sensitive manner, while conserving native species.

Over the past four decades, Turner stepped into the international spotlight with one accomplishment after another. Whether in billboard advertisement, cable television, sports team ownership, sailing, environmental initiatives or philanthropy - his vision, determination, generosity and forthrightness have consistently given the world reason to take notice.

Turner is also chairman of the Turner Foundation Inc. The foundation supports efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect our climate, safeguarding environmental health, maintaining wildlife habitat protection, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates. He serves as co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which works to close the growing and increasingly dangerous gap between the threat from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and he is chairman of the United Nations Foundation, established to promote a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.

In January 2002, Turner launched Ted's Montana Grill, a classic American grill, with his co-founder and restaurant partner, George McKerrow Jr. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ted's Montana Grill currently has more than 55 restaurants in 20 states.

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