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James D. Sinegal (born January 1, 1936) is an American billionaire businessman and cofounder and former CEO of the Costco Wholesale Corporation, [ 1] an international retail chain. He served as Costco's president and CEO from 1983 until 2011. As CEO of Costco, Sinegal was known for his hands-on humanitarian approach to business, which he ...
In 1982, Brotman cofounded Costco Wholesale Corporation with Jim Sinegal, [6] a protégé of Sol Price, the founder of PriceSmart. [1] He served as chairman from the company's inception until his death, except during a stretch from 1993 to 1994 when he was vice chairman. [7] [8] In 2017, Costco operated 736 warehouse stores. [3]
Costco Wholesale Corporation (commonly shortened to Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. [4] As of 2021, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world [ 5 ] and is the world's largest retailer of choice and prime beef , organic foods , rotisserie ...
Kirkland-brand items generated $56 billion in revenue for Costco last fiscal year, or 23% of its business. If Kirkland were a standalone company, this level of sales would make it larger than Nike ...
Richie Olsten has been in Maui's helicopter tour business for a half century, so long he's developed a barometer for the tourism-dependent economy: rental cars parked at the island's airport ...
The Coast Guard has also rescued 14 people who had gone into the ocean to take shelter from the fire and smoke on Maui, Ryder said. The Department of Transportation worked with commercial airlines ...
Known for. Costco, Price Club, Fedmart, PriceSmart. Spouse. Helen Moskowitz. Children. 2. Sol Price (January 23, 1916 – December 14, 2009) was an American retailer and the founder of FedMart, Price Club (which ultimately merged into Costco) and PriceSmart. [ 1] He was considered the "father" of the "warehouse store" retail model.
Consistently heralded as a worker-centric company, Costco now employs 300,000 people, 189,000 of whom work in the U.S. — and not one of them earns less than $17 an hour.