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Last week the chain's President Donald Robert Grimes, 47, announced plans to grow much bigger. By 1963, he hopes to have 10,000 store members, doing an annual business of more than $5 billion, compared with a 1952 gross of $2.3 billion* (and A. & P.'s volume...
Weapon Against Chains. I.G.A. was conceived in 1926 as the answer to the big national chains, which had captured 30% of the retail food market. J. (for Joseph) Frank Grimes, father of I.G.A.'s president and a Chicago accountant who specialized in auditing the books of wholesale grocery firms...
When Don Grimes, a graduate of the University of Illinois, who had served an apprenticeship as an A. & P. store manager, joined I.G.A., there were 748 stores. He worked his way through several jobs, became assistant to the president after a three-year Army hitch, president when his father retired...
The difficulty is that only part of a newspaper's value is made up of tangibles like real estate, plant, equipment, etc. A large part of it is an indeterminate thing the brokers call "future potential," and an equally elusive asset known as "good will" - an estimate of the...
No member of the storefront church labored harder than Deacon Grimes. In the South he had tomcatted and boozed around until one day, at 21, he had seen the light. Now, a big, morose factory worker, he thundered God's word at his wife & children without cease. What he...