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The center was built in 1959 on what was once the Galbraith farm between Tremont Road and Northwest Boulevard in Upper Arlington, a suburban city founded in 1918. [3] In 1963, Les Wexner borrowed $5,000 from his aunt to open the first Limited store – the first of what is now a billion-dollar retailing empire, L Brands. [1]
IGA, Inc. is an international chain of grocery stores. Unlike chain stores IGA franchises are independently owned and operated. Many of these stores operate in small-town markets and belong to families that manage them. IGA was founded in the United States as the Independent Grocers Alliance in 1926.
IGA store (left) on Dundas Street in Toronto, September 1957. IGA is a group of independent grocers in Canada supplied by Sobeys, which franchises the name from IGA, Inc. Acquired by Sobeys as part of its purchase of the Oshawa Group Ltd., it now operates primarily in Quebec.
Tops Friendly Markets was co-founded by Armand Castellani, who was born in 1917 in a village outside of Rome, Italy, and Thomas Buscaglia.Castellani's family came to the United States in 1920, and eventually settled in Niagara Falls, where his father, Ferrante, opened a small neighborhood grocery store.
Carlie C's is an IGA grocery store chain headquartered in Dunn, North Carolina. It is the largest IGA franchise in North Carolina. [1] As of March 2023, the chain had 33 locations across North Carolina and South Carolina. [2] The business has annual revenue in excess of $100 million as of 2013.
Red & White logo Red & White ad from 1955.. Red & White Corporation is a chain of independently owned and operated food stores operating in the United States and Canada.While it has been supplanted by supermarket chains in many of its locations, its signature red dot logo with the words Red & White can still be found on small independent grocers in many states & provinces.
The IGA brand is owned by Australian conglomerate Metcash under their Food & Grocery division, but individual IGA stores are owned and operated independently. [3] Its main competitors are Aldi, Coles and Woolworths. IGA is the fourth largest supermarket chain in Australia, following Aldi overtaking Metcash in supermarket revenue.
The Kingstree Historic District contains forty-eight properties situated along Main Street, Academy Street, and Hampton Street in the commercial area of downtown Kingstree, South Carolina. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The district includes the courthouse , public library , railroad station , and numerous commercial buildings.