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The first Globe Discount City opened in Houston in November 1960 by United Mercantile Inc. United had formed earlier in 1960 to operate the existing seven-store chain of Danburg's Department Stores which had existed since the 1930s and the forthcoming big-box Globe retail locations – the first three of which were each built with over 100,000 square feet of space. [2]
By 1964, there were 138 Gibson's Discount Center stores generating $190 million in revenue; by 1968, there were 434 stores generating $1 billion in sales. [3] The company's headquarters moved to Seagoville, Texas. In 1972, Gibson transferred ownership of the company to sons Herbert Jr. and Gerald. [4]
By 1990, the chain had grown to 89 Channel outlets in nine states, [3] [9] but in early 1991, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and announced a plan to close 34 of 86 stores, mostly in the Baltimore-Washington and New England markets. [9]
Houston's Buffalo Market H-E-B (#51) Headquartered in downtown San Antonio, H-E-B operates more than 300 stores in over 150 communities across Texas. [24] [25] As of late 2010, its operations serve approximately "55-plus" percent of the Texas market, [26] [27] with primary Texas markets including the Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, Laredo and Houston metro areas.
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Memorial City Mall is a large shopping mall in Houston, Texas, United States. It is approximately 11 miles (18 km) west of downtown Houston at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Gessner Road. The mall is in the Memorial City Management District , whose official legal name is the "Harris County Municipal Management District No. 1" under ...
Town & Country Village is an open-air shopping center in western Houston, Texas, United States, within the Memorial City district. The complex straddles the northbound frontage road of Beltway 8, north of Memorial Drive and south of CityCentre. From 1983 to 2004, Town & Country Village neighbored Town & Country Mall, an enclosed shopping mall ...
Gerland's acquired several stores from the defunct Weingarten chain in 1981, and operated more than 40 store locations in the Houston area by 1990. While most were company-owned, a handful of the Gerland's stores were independently owned franchises. [citation needed] In 1994 Gerland acquired five stores from Appletree Markets. [4]