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This is a list of major companies and organizations in the Charlotte metropolitan area, through corporate or subsidiary headquarters or through significant operational and employment presence in and around the American city of Charlotte, North Carolina. The Charlotte metropolitan area is home to seven Fortune 500 companies, numbers in italics ...
CSK Auto was formed after a series of acquisitions in the auto parts space. In October 1971, Lucky Stores acquired Kragen Auto Supply with its 11 stores in a stock swap. [6] Lucky also acquired Checker Auto Parts when it acquired Yellow Front Stores along with their corporate parent Valley Distributing for $45.9 million in stock in March 1978. [7]
Checker Motors Corporation was a vehicle manufacturer, and later an automotive subcontractor, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.The company was established by Morris Markin in 1922, created by a merger of the firms Commonwealth Motors and Markin Automobile Body, and was initially named the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company.
The Deschaum Motor Car Co., founded 1908 in Buffalo, New York, was the earliest ancestor of what would eventually become Checker Motors. [2]: 66 With new investors, ownership, and locations, the name changed in succession to the De Schaum-Hornell Motor Car Co. of Hornell, New York (1908–10), the Suburban Motor Car Corp. of Ecorse, Michigan (1911), the Palmer Motor Car Co. (1913), Partin ...
Chief Auto Parts was a United States–based auto parts store chain that had stores located in the states of Tennessee, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Arkansas and California. Chief was founded in 1955 in Norwalk, California, by Vern Johnson and Lorin Tuthill. The company grew to 119 stores when it was sold to Southland in 1979.
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The Checker Marathon is an automobile produced by the Checker Motors Corporation of Kalamazoo, Michigan, between 1961 and 1982. It was marketed as a passenger car for consumers, as opposed to the similar Taxi, which was aimed at fleet buyers.
The 2008 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 Presented by Pennzoil was the penultimate race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup season and the 2008 Chase for the Sprint Cup. To date, it is the final career race for Kyle Petty .