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In 1983, GKN, a multinational British company, bought out Meineke Discount Mufflers. [5] In 1986, the company headquarters moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. [6] In 2003, the same year Meineke Discount Muffler Shops, Inc. became Meineke Car Care Centers, Inc., Meineke became a privately held company, no longer publicly traded. [7]
Rich Oil was a discount brand offered by Ashland and initially was retained following their acquisition of SuperAmerica strictly to keep the trademark valid. Following the creation of Marathon Ashland Petroleum, Rich was selected for lower-volume stores that basically fit the profile of the original concept of Speedway 79.
The Rich family once operated 29 discount merchandise stores in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. History Jerry Rich, a Russian immigrant living in ...
Post World War II Sprague added residual fuel oil products. In 1959 Sprague opened a refinery. In the 1960s Sprague sold coal operations to Westmoreland Coal Company. In 1970 the Sprague family sold the company to Royal Dutch Shell's Asiatic Petroleum Company, who sold it two years later to the Axel Johnson Group of Stockholm, Sweden.
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Fifty years ago this week, a plan to locate a $600 million oil refinery in Durham was effectively blocked by local grassroots efforts, an opposition led by a trio of women that prevented 400,000 ...
Discount department stores. Academy Sports + Outdoors ... BJ's Wholesale Club; Bob's Stores, 24 stores, (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode ...
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