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They persuaded the owners of the Maxwell House Hotel to serve their coffee, and they use the name of the hotel as their coffee brand. [1] They began using the slogan "good to the last drop" in 1917. [1] In 1928, Cheek sold the brand to Postum Co. for $42 million; it was subsequently purchased by General Foods. [1]
Maxell was formed in 1960, when a dry cell manufacturing plant was created at the company's headquarters in Ibaraki, Osaka.In 1961, Maxell Electric Industrial Company, Limited was created out of the dry battery and magnetic tape divisions of Nitto Electric Industrial Company, Limited (now Nitto Denko Corporation).
An owner of a natural-gas company manipulated meters to charge a Kentucky city for gas it didn’t receive, a federal grand jury has charged. ... Greystone Equine LLC, bought much of the gas ...
In 1950, Maxwell Henry Gluck (1896–1984) purchased the original section of Elmendorf Farm along with its name rights. Gluck, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Darlington Stores Corporation and later the United States Ambassador to Ceylon , had his first success in racing when he bought Prince John for $14,300 at the 1954 yearling sales.
A Lexington native who founded a company once valued at more than $1 billion but later went to prison for fraud is facing new charges. A federal grand jury in Lexington indicted Charles E. Johnson ...
A deranged business owner is behind bars for allegedly kidnapping and viciously beating a man who he believed stole a box of vape pens from his convenience store in Kentucky.
Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
Columbia Sussex began operation as Columbia Development in 1972 with the construction of a single Days Inn location in Richwood, KY. Rapid expansion followed and by 1978 the company was renamed Columbia Sussex and was the largest Days Inn franchisee with 14 locations many with restaurants named after the founder's wife, Marty.