Word: munford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Munford, Inc., which has its headquarters in Atlanta, expects to ring up sales as high as $350 million this year, v. $273 million last year. The company operates two chains of stores: the 1,400 MAJIK "convenience" stores (open late into the night) and 90 World Bazaar stores selling imported goods. Even so Munford ranks behind two other Southern-based firms in both major areas of its business. The biggest convenience-store chain is Southland (the 7-Eleven stores) based in Dallas; the biggest import chain is Pier 1 with head offices in Fort Worth...
...Sometimes a gift has a string openly attached. Last week Dillard Munford, Georgia finance chairman of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, was offered $20,000 from a businessman who said he wanted appointment to a federal board in Washington. Munford promised to "see to it he met the right people," but "then he'd have to stand on his own merits." The donation was accepted...
Enough uncertainty remains about what kind of price rises will be approved, though, to turn some big executives into volunteer enforcers of price restraints on smaller concerns. Robert Blythe, executive vice president of Atlanta's Munford-Atlantic Co., warns suppliers that "they cannot pass any price increases on to us." As a company with sales of more than $100 million, Munford-Atlantic must get Price Commission clearance for any increases, and it cannot be sure that it will be allowed to raise its own prices to reflect higher charges by suppliers...