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Bob Evans Restaurants is an American chain of restaurants owned by Golden Gate Capital based in New Albany, Ohio.After its founding in 1948 by Bob Evans (1918–2007), the restaurant chain evolved into a company with the corporate brand name "Bob Evans Farms, Inc." (BEF), and eventually established a separate food division to handle the sale of its products in other markets.
The name Bofors is strongly associated with the Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun used by both sides during World War II. This automatic cannon is often simply called the Bofors gun and saw service on both land and sea. It became so widely known that anti-aircraft guns in general were often referred to as Bofors guns. [20]
Wakefern Food Corporation is an American company that was founded in 1946 and is based in Keasbey, New Jersey. [5] It is the largest retailers' cooperative group of supermarkets and the fourth-largest cooperative of any kind in the United States .
Associated Food Stores was founded in 1940 by Donald P. Lloyd, president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association along with 34 Utah retailers. Concerned with the effect that large corporate stores would have on small independent retailers, he felt the only way these small businesses could survive is if they united and faced the competition as one, therefore increasing their collective buying power.
Kroger operates their stores as Foods Co. in northern and central California, including Bakersfield and the Central Coast, because they do not have the rights to the Food 4 Less name in those areas. Other states, such as Nevada , formerly contained Kroger-owned Food 4 Less stores.
The main location is roughly 200,000 square feet [2] (4.6 acres or 18,580 square meters), and has been described as a theme park of food [citation needed]. Jungle Jim's offers one of the largest wine selections in the United States , [ 3 ] live seafood tanks, and an in-store cooking school.
The owners of the California gas station who sold the fifth largest Mega Millions ticket in history on Friday were elated to learn their store had played a small part in the $1.22 billion jackpot ...
The Byrd's stores became Lowes Foods stores. [5] [6] In 2000, Delhaize America had to sell 38 Hannaford stores to satisfy antitrust concerns. Lowes Foods bought 12 of these, six (plus one under construction) in the Research Triangle region and six along the North Carolina coast. [7] In 2007, Lowes Foods opened its first fuel station at a ...