Millions of catalogs in the mail mean that those who prefer to use the telephone can still call to place an order, but Lightman said Harry & David’s business is primarily online and they redesigned the website to make ordering faster and more personalized back in 2017. Thedigital transformat...
In October of that year he announced that he would open a farmers market of his own. Construction of the 60,000-square-foot facility would begin in December, and his attorney told Joe Earle of theJournal and Constitutionthat the building would cost $6 million. From the beginning Blazer seem...
But when I raced, I raced with Richard Petty and David Pearson. Buddy Baker. Cale Yarborough. Bobby and Donnie Allison. And most of them people is from the South. That's where you drawed the big crowds. And then they expanded to California. And I went to Indy that first race. That...
The man who gave his name to Harry London Candies was Harry Alfred London, born in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, in August 1900, the eldest of eight children. To help support the family he quit school after fourth grade and went to work for a company that would become part of Republic Steel...
Taz Murray and David Taiclet, who entered the candy industry after earning their Harvard MBAs. Over the next decade, they acquired three candy companies: Kencraft Candy of Alpine, Utah, makers of specialty hard candies; Salt Lake City's Maxfield Candy, makers of chocolate candies; and ...
Blank, Post Properties CEO and President John Williams, and David Pattillo, whose company had built the first Harry's. Stock sold initially for $17 a share, and investors were so bullish that Harry's quickly raised $23 million. With this money, Blazer opened the Cobb facility, as well ...
David Johansen, and a friendship developed between Harry and the band, helped by the fact that she had a car and could ferry them around the city, “all so skinny, they were able to squeeze six across the backseat and four across the front.” The contractor turned out to be a ...