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Lowe's Companies, Inc. (/ l oʊ z / LOHZ) is an American retail company specializing in home improvement. Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, the company operates a chain of retail stores in the United States.
Lowe drove around the country selling Kitty Litter. He even cleaned boxes at cat shows so he could get a booth to demonstrate his product. He founded Edward Lowe Industries and created Tidy Cat cat box filler in 1964. In the early 1980s, he almost lost his market to Clorox, but by 1990, Edward Lowe Industries was the top producer of cat box filler.
World War II. Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas and Midwest City, Oklahoma in 1962 and 1983 respectively. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as ...
Lowe was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1972 by Robert J. Lowe, Sr. and three business partners as a diversified real estate investment, management, and development firm. Since its inception, it has developed, managed or acquired $32 billion in assets.
Sir Frank P. Lowy AC (/ ˈ l oʊ i / LOH-ee; born 22 October 1930) is an Australian-Israeli businessman of Jewish Slovak-Hungarian origins and the former long-time chairman of Westfield Corporation, a global shopping centre company with US$29.3 billion of assets under management in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe.
Arthur Loew Jr. (grandson) Adolph Zukor (son’s father-in-law) Loew in 1922. Marcus Loew ( / loʊ /; [1] May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927) [2] was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loew's Theatres and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio (MGM).
Lowepro camera bags began as an offshoot of Lowe Alpine Systems, an outdoor equipment manufacturer founded by Mike, Greg and Jeff Lowe in suburban Denver (Colorado) in 1967. In the 1960s, the Lowe brothers were known in outdoor circles for their climbing, skiing and photography. In 1967, Greg Lowe invented the world’s first close-fitting ...
Bernard (Bernie) Marcus was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Newark, New Jersey. [2] He was the youngest of four children and grew up in a tenement. He graduated from South Side High School in 1947. [3] Marcus wanted to become a doctor, and was accepted to Harvard Medical School, [4] [5] but could not afford the tuition.