Safeway: ingredients for life
March 25, 2019 Known today as Safeway, the company that was founded in 1912 by Sam Seelig was originally called the Sam Seelig Company. Seelig left the company in 1924 … Read more
Month: March 2019
True Value: one of the world’s leading hardware wholesalers
In 1948, John Cotter founded Cotter & Company, which was. The company was made up 25 independently-owned and operated retail hardware stores. In 1963, Cotter purchased Hibbard, Spencer and Bartlett, … Read more
Wawa: “Gottahava Wawa”
How did a chain of retail stores ever get a name like Wawa? Well, as the story goes, Wawa is the Native American name for the Canada Goose, which was … Read more
Outback Steakhouse
Thirty-one years ago, in 1988, Bob Basham, Trudy Cooper, Chris T. Sullivan and Tim Gannon founded the first Outback Steakhouse in Tampa, Florida. The Outback Steakhouse was owned and operated in the United States by OSI … Read more