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The OPA is featured, in fictionalized form as the Bureau of Price Regulation, in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mystery novel The Silent Speaker. The OPA unsuccessfully tried to revoke the car dealer license of unorthodox businessman Madman Muntz for violating used car regulations, subject to price control. Muntz was acquitted in Los Angeles Superior ...
Old Dutch Foods, Inc. is a manufacturer of potato chips and other snack foods in the Midwestern United States, New England and Canada. Their product line includes brands such as Old Dutch Potato Chips , Dutch Crunch , Ripples , Cheese Pleesers and Restaurante Style Tortilla Chips .
Boni is a Dutch supermarket chain that was founded in 1972 by Gerrit Klaassen as a family business. The name "Boni" comes from the word "bonus" and means "of the good" in Latin. The first store had a discount look and a wide variety of inexpensive products.
Dorus received his nickname Grandpa (Dutch: Opa) while still a young man: he had married Neeltje Huisman, a fisherman's widow who already had six children.Shortly after the marriage, the oldest of Neeltje's daughters had a child of her own, and so at only 23 years old Dorus became known as "Opa" in Den Helder where he lived.
Coop Supermarkten takes part in the Dutch wholesale purchasing cooperative Superunie. In the last few years, the company launched a new type of store called Supercoop : these large stores are placed in areas where there is usually a lot of competition from other chains and they are seen as a response to the Dutch price war among supermarkets ...
De Sperwer U.A., whose members trade as PLUS (Dutch pronunciation:) under licence from PLUS Holding B.V., is a Dutch co-operative supermarket chain headquartered in Utrecht. Its 259 members operate, as ‘independent entrepreneurs,’ 270 stores across the Netherlands. [1]
Koninklijke Ahold N.V. was a Dutch multinational retail company based in Zaandam, Netherlands.Founded in 1887 by Albert Heijn, Sr., the company initially began as a single grocery store in Oostzaan and became the largest grocery chain in the Netherlands in 1970s, Netherlands.
Van Eeghen Group is one of the oldest still functioning food producing companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1662. [1] It is a family business older than 200 years and is a member of the Henokiens association. [2]