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Freeman Spogli, originally known as Riordan, Freeman & Spogli, was founded in 1983 by Richard Riordan, Bradford M. Freeman, and Ronald P. Spogli. [1]Co-founder Richard Riordan, who would later go on to serve as Mayor of Los Angeles, had been an attorney and had made substantial personal investments in technology companies.
First Watch and the Egg & I restaurants serve breakfast, brunch, and lunch and offer a wide variety of items. [16] In 2018, First Watch began to source its coffee from Huila, Colombia to "support hard-working women and their families in Huila in 2018." Royal Cup Coffee, an Alabama-based coffee company, roasts the coffee. [18]
Upon graduation, Freeman served six years in the National Guard and began a career as an investment banker for the firm Dean Witter Reynolds. [2] [1] In 1983, Freeman co-founded an investment banking firm called Riordan, Freeman & Spogli with later Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and Ronald P. Spogli. [1]
Purity Supreme and Li'l Peach had combined sales of about US$1.3 billion in 1990 before the company was bought out again by Freeman Spogli & Co., an investment firm for about US$300 million (~$618 million in 2023), including the acquisition of debt.
American Stores put Buttrey up for sale in May 1990 and, in August, sold the chain to an investment group (Buttrey Acquisition Corp) led by Buttrey's management and Los Angeles–based investment firm Freeman Spogli & Co. [2] American Stores received $184 million from proceeds of the sale and other agreements. [2]
It was the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history, lifting the Dodgers to a 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees, and in reality, ending the World Series when it barely started.
Samuel Longley Bickford (1885–1959) began his restaurant career in 1902. In the 1910s, he was a vice president at the Waldorf System lunchroom chain in New England and, in 1921, he established his own quick-lunch Bickford's restaurants in New York.
He retired from the NFL after a 10-year career that included stints with the St. Louis Cardinals, the New Orleans Saints and the Buffalo Bills. Conrad Dobler, football, 1950-2023.