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CarMax auto superstore in Raleigh, North Carolina. CarMax is a used car auto superstore concept developed in 1991 at Circuit City by Austin Ligon, then Circuit City's Senior VP of Planning, and Rick Sharp, then Circuit City CEO. The goal of CarMax was to revolutionize used car retailing through a combination of large selection (400+ used cars ...
CarMax, Inc. is a used vehicle retailer based in the United States. It operates two business segments: CarMax Sales Operations and CarMax Auto Finance. The company began as a side business of Circuit City, opening its first location in September 1993 in Richmond, Virginia. As of January 2025, CarMax operates 253 locations. [3]
Loggers worked 11 hours a day, six days a week, from April to November, earning $1.50 to $2.50 per day, less room and board. [ 8 ] : 73 Injury and death were common occurrences in all aspects of the logging operation due to the dangers of steel cables, mill machinery, and flume trestles.
William Austin Ligon (born ca. 1951) is the co-founder and retired CEO of CarMax.He retired in June 2006, and is now a private angel-stage investor. Among his recent investments are Gazelle, Redfin, Rev.com, Car Trade (India), Eneza Education and Tazza Kitchen.
A combustion engine drives a selfmade sawmill in north Florida. Stereo recording 1988. A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago: a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end. After trees are selected for harvest, the next step in logging is felling the trees, and bucking them to length.
Interfor Corporation is one of the largest lumber producers in the world. [3] The company's sawmilling operations have a combined manufacturing capacity of over 5.2 billion board feet of lumber with sales to North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
In 1976, George Goodwin began as a master carpenter and home builder. After a diver friend gave him antique long leaf pine logs found in the Suwannee River for his own project, the idea to reclaim logs from rivers was expanded into a sawmill operation in Micanopy, Florida. The company became incorporated in Florida in 1984.
Bandsaw-type portable sawmill Swingblade-type portable sawmill More recently, with the invention of the Wood-Mizer in 1982, [ 3 ] portable bandsaw mills represented a dramatic shift in design. Unlike traditional mills, they used a thin-kerf blade of the type used on a band saw rather than a circular blade, which reduced weight and cost, and ...