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Price Mart
Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independently owned supermarkets and supermarket, grocery stores. It serves more than 4,000 locations in 36 states in the Midwestern United States, Midwest, the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the Southwestern United States, Southwest, and from 8 full-line wholesale divisions. The consolidated run-rate sales for AWG is close to $10 billion. In addition to its cooperative wholesale operations, the company also operates subsidiary companies which provide certain real estate and supermarket development services, digital marketing services, and is a wholesale supply provider of health and beauty care, general merchandise, specialty/international foods and pharmaceutical supplies. It was founded in 1924 as Associated Grocers of Kansas City and was based in Kansas City, Missouri before moving to Kansas City, Kansas. Associated Wholesale Grocers distributes four private-label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Scott, Kansas
Fort Scott is a city in and the county seat of Bourbon County, Kansas, Bourbon County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 7,552. It is named for Gen. Winfield Scott. The city is located south of Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City on the Marmaton River. It is the home of the Fort Scott National Historic Site and the Fort Scott National Cemetery. History Established and garrisoned by the U.S. Army from 1842 to 1853, soldiers at military Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Scott assisted with the protection of the Permanent Indian Frontier. After the army abandoned the fort in 1853, the buildings were purchased by local settlers at a government auction in 1855. The community of Fort Scott was laid out in 1857, and was chartered as a city in 1860. Between 1855 and 1861, the citizens of Fort Scott experienced the violent unrest that preceded the American Civil War on the Kansas and Missouri border. Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reasor's
Reasor LLC (more simply Reasor's or Reasor's Groceries) is a full-service, regional grocery store chain based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Reasor's has seventeen locations in northeastern Oklahoma. Reasor's has a significant presence in the Tulsa metro area. One source has stated that the company has 2000 employee while the Reasor's home page has indicated that the company has "over 2000 employees." Brookshire Grocery Company, headquartered in Tyler, TX, purchased Reasor’s in January 2022. Store departments and services Reasor's offers services typical of large grocery stores: meat and deli products, fresh produce, dairy and cheese products, canned goods, etc. Most locations offer an ATM and Pharmacy. Recently, Reasor's has begun the service of allowing customers to shop for groceries online (begun at its Tahlequah store). Founding and company history Reasor's was founded in 1963 with a single store located in Tahlequah by Larry Reasor. His fundamental business philosophy wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Market Basket (Louisiana And Texas)
Market Basket Foods, under the trade name Market Basket, is a chain of 34 supermarkets that serves southeast Texas and Louisiana in the United States, with headquarters in Nederland, Texas. History Johnnie Alford, Ed Hughes, Howard Hatfield, Roy Theriot and Bruce Thompson founded Market Basket in early 1962. Each was an independent grocer, owning one store each. The five grocers joined together to keep advertising costs low and pool their purchasing power. Three of the grocers remained one-supermarket operators while Hughes and Thompson formed a 50-50 corporation for joint expansion. Thompson and Hughes bought four stores as partners in the 1960s. During the early 1970s they obtained former A&P, Kroger and Weingarten's stores in Lake Charles, Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange. In 1983, Bruce Thompson purchased Hughes’ interest in their jointly held corporation. During the 1980s, two new stores were constructed, and the chain grew with the acquisition of 14 more stores form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houchens Industries
Houchens Industries, Inc. is an American employee-owned company, in business since 1917 when it began as a small grocery operated by founder Ervin Houchens in rural Barren County, Kentucky. The company is headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The company currently operates more than 325 retail grocery, convenience, and neighborhood market stores across 14 states, through their Houchens Food Group subsidiary. Complemented by a strong foundation of diverse companies and over 15,000 employees corporate-wide, Houchens Industries is listed by Forbes as one of the largest 100% employee-owned companies in the world. History The company traces its beginnings to 1917, when founder Ervin Houchens opened his first store ("BG Wholesale") at the age of 19 in a shed in Lucas, Kentucky. This shed, along with other historical structures, has been well preserved and is open to the public. He sold the company in 1983. The current CEO, Jimmie Gipson, started with the company in 1965, as an acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homeland (supermarket)
Homeland is a supermarket chain in the United States. Homeland is the main supermarket banner of Homeland Acquisition Corporation (H.A.C., Inc.), the supermarket banner's parent company, and the names are often used interchangeably. Homeland's headquarters is in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. As of 2019, it operates 79 supermarkets in Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia and Texas. Many of H.A.C., Inc.'s supermarkets also include pharmacies and fuel centers. In 2019, Homeland purchased the remaining Oklahoma Food Pyramid stores from Rogersville, Missouri based Pyramid Foods which owns Price Cutter and Ramey. History Origins The company traces its history to the first United Supermarket opened in Sayre, Oklahoma by H.D. Snell in 1916. United Supermarkets of Oklahoma became part of Homeland in 2008. Homeland Stores Inc. Homeland used to be the Oklahoma division of Safeway, and it was spun off from Safeway in 1987. The "Homeland" name was adopted in 1988. Homeland Stores Inc. operated as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harps Food Stores
Harps Food Stores, Inc. is an American regional chain of supermarkets based in Springdale, Arkansas. The company operates 151 supermarkets located in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The company sells both groceries and Sports equipment, sporting goods in some larger stores, with several locations also incorporating Pharmacy, pharmacies and Filling station, gas stations. In addition to its flagship Harps brand, the company also operates grocery stores under four banners: Food4Less, in southwest Missouri (under license from brand owner Kroger); CashSaver in Tulsa; 10Box Cost-Plus; Warehouse Market in Tulsa; and The Markets in Louisiana and Mississippi. The company additionally operates a franchise of Ace Hardware in Charleston, Arkansas, Jay, Oklahoma, and Dexter, Missouri. The stores are supplied by Kansas City, Kansas-based Associated Wholesale Grocers. The company is valued around $550 million, and employed 5,300 people as of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
