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Lufkin is a brand featuring primarily measurement tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes. Lufkin is a brand of Apex Tool Group. History
In 1959, the business opened its largest store to date in Lancaster. At 25,000 square feet (2,300 m 2), the Lancaster Minyard featured new technology such as mercury vapor lighting, a 200-car parking lot, automatic air-opened doors, background music, and air-conditioning. [1] By 1960, the 11 Minyard Food Stores generated sales of $15 million.
Lufkin is home to Lufkin Industries and Lufkin Gears LLC, which manufactures and services oil field equipment and power transmission equipment, and supplies of creosote-treated utility poles. It is also home to the Atkinson Candy Company , the creator of the Chick-O-Stick , and Brookshire Brothers , a chain of grocery stores in Texas and Louisiana.
For a list of companies based within Dallas city limits, go to List of companies in Dallas. The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is home to over 20 corporate headquarters, making the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex one of the largest corporate headquarters concentration in the United States.
These stores were considerably smaller than Walmart's or Target's supercenter stores. Duckwall-ALCO stores announced on November 29, 2010, the closure of all 44 of its Duckwall stores, thus ending the Duckwall name. The store in Hettinger, North Dakota, was reopened as an ALCO while the remaining 43 stores permanently closed. Subsequently, the ...
In early 2005, Safeway was rumored to be attempting to sell the then 138-store Randalls division. [16] Instead, Safeway announced by the end of the year it would close 15 Randalls stores in the Houston area, one in Austin, and nine Tom Thumb stores in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. [17]
The East Dallas family farm land of 600 plus acres was purchased in 1937. The abstract completed at that time traces the ownership of the land back to the original owner who had been rewarded the land for his service in the Battle Of San Jacinto by the then governor of Texas in 1836.
The North Jackson store was the newest of the four locations, having opened in 2001, while the three other area stores opened in 1997. On February 11, 2010, after a decline in market grocery shares against Kroger and Walmart , Brookshire's exited Mississippi with the sale of the Flowood and Ridgeland stores to Kroger and the closure of the two ...