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Orgill, Inc. is an American independent hardware distributor with headquarters in Collierville, Tennessee. It is the world's largest independently owned hardlines distributor. [1] [2] Founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1847, Orgill was Memphis's oldest operating private business, before it relocated to nearby Collierville in recent years.
Chattanooga Times Free Press [2] Chattanooga: 1869 [3] Daily: Began as Times; merged with Free Press in 1999 to form Times Free Press: Chester County Independent: Henderson Weekly Citizen Tribune: Morristown: 1966 [4] Daily: Cleveland Daily Banner: Cleveland: 1854 [5] Daily: Commercial Appeal, The [3] Memphis [2] 1840 [5] Daily: Gannett Company ...
James Gilbert Sterchi (June 23, 1867 – December 9, 1932) was an American businessman, best known as the cofounder and head of the furniture wholesaler, Sterchi Brothers Furniture Company. At its height, Sterchi Brothers was the world's largest furniture store chain, [ 1 ] with sixty-five stores across the southeastern United States and a ...
H. Mueller, Gun Shop building, circa 1859. Mueller Co. was founded in 1857 by Hieronymus Mueller in Decatur, Illinois as "H. Mueller, Gun Shop". [3] Mueller closed the business briefly in 1858 to prospect for gold in Colorado, but returned to his business not long after, expanding it to include sewing machine and clock repairs and the sale of hunting and fishing equipment in addition to ...
Miller's traced its history to the New York Racket Store, established in 1889 at 510 Market Street in Chattanooga by brothers Gus and Frank Miller. After a fire destroyed the Richardson Building in 1897, the brothers built a new store at Seventh and Market Streets that was known as Miller Brothers Department Store. [1]
The Tennessee Press Association recognized the Times Free Press as the best newspaper in Tennessee in 2002. One year later, Editor & Publisher magazine named the Times Free Press as one of 10 newspapers in the United States "doing it right". [16] In May 2013, the paper bought a new offset printing press to replace its flexography printing press.
The company name derives from an early sewing machine model, the Brother, which itself was named for the Yasui brothers, Masayoshi and Jitsuichi. [5] In 1955, Brother International Corporation (US) was established as their first overseas sales affiliate. In 1958 a European regional sales company was established in Dublin. The corporate name was ...
Hemphill Brothers Coach Company is a motor coach sales and operations company that provides coach sales, leasing, maintenance, and custom conversion services. Established in 1980, it is a family-owned company located near Nashville, Tennessee , USA.