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Pace Membership Warehouse – founded in Denver in 1983 and quickly expanded to the East Coast; [194] [195] acquired by Kmart in 1989; [196] [197] later sold to Sam's Club in 1993 and rebranded [198] [199] Price Club – merged with Costco in 1993 and rebranded [200] [201]
Price launched the first FedMart in 1954 and, together with his son, Robert, Giles Bateman, a nephew, Rick Libenson and others, founded Price Club in 1976. The company went public in 1980. [4] [5] In 1993 Costco merged with Price Club to form PriceCostco.
In 1989, Kmart bought the US locations, [2] and converted most of them to Pace Warehouse in 1990. Makro expanded to Asia with its first store in Thailand in 1989. Operating as Siam Makro, the company is a joint venture between Charoen Pokphand and SHV Holdings. In 1994, Siam Makro planned to be listed in the Stock Exchange of Thailand to fund ...
Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively.
In 1983, Kmart's Pace Membership Warehouse (later sold to Sam's Club) started operations. That same year, Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club on April 7, in Midwest City, Oklahoma. [6] In 1984, former The Wholesale Club executives founded BJ's Wholesale Club, owned by Zayre.
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