| 1915 - |
Benjamin Green founded B.Green and Company - Baltimore, MD based
voluntary food wholesaler.
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| 1949 - |
B.Green began supplying Jumbo Food Stores
(later became Shoppers Food Warehouse)
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| 1960 - |
B.Green began supplying Food-A-Rama supermarkets
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| 1976 - |
B.Green and Food-A-Rama formed a joint venture to buy 6 Big Valu stores from
The Penn Fruit Company.
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| 1981 - |
Bernie Green partnered with Jack Millman to buy 3 former Pantry Pride stores -
forming Farm Fresh Supermarkets of MD. Chain grew to 18 stores at its peak before a check kiting scheme in the 1990's put Millman in jail and the Farm Fresh chain in
bankrupcy.
B.Green bought 2 additonal stores (Salisbury, MD and Dover, DE.) at the Pantry
Pride auction.
B.Green joined with Food-A-Rama to buy 1 additional Pantry
Pride store.
B.Green lost part of the Food-A-Rama wholesale business to Louis Lehrman & Son - Food-A-Rama's other wholesaler.
(Louis Lehrman & Son Inc changed their name to Super Rite Foods years later)
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| 1983 - |
B.Green operated 8 retail food stores.
B.Green opened its newly expanded mechanized 600,000 sq ft warehouse at the
Washington Blvd headquarters in Baltimore, MD
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| 1984 - |
B.Green and Food-A-Rama had informal talks about merging and going
public. In the end, Bernie Green declined to merge for fear of losing his other
wholesale customers.
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| 1985 - |
B.Green lost its largest wholesale customer when 48-store Food-A-Rama was sold to
Super Rite Foods. After the transaction, most of the Food-A-Rama business was
shifted to Super Rite Foods.
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| 1986 - |
B.Green purchased the 6-store Big B group from founders Herb Beckenheimer
and Bernie Maizlish.
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| 1988 - |
B.Green was interested in selling the company. Was almost sold until
negotiations fell apart.
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| 1989 - |
Farm Fresh Supermarkets of MD (B.Green owned 49%) switched to the IGA
program.
B.Green sold its 8-store Big B supermarket chain to Farm Fresh.
B.Green had a stock sale - consolidated the company's ownership into fewer
family hands.
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| 1991 - |
B.Green lost its then largest wholesale customer when Shoppers Food
Warehouse switched to Super Rite Foods.
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| 1992 - |
B.Green sold its military wholesale food division to Nash Finch Company.
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| 1993 - |
B.Green sold its civilian wholesale food division to Richfood Holdings.
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| 2008 - |
2008 B.GREEN & CO. ARTICLE
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| Present - |
B.Green consists of a couple smaller-size grocery stores near the Eastern
Shore, MD and a Cash-and-Carry operation. The company is currently run by Bernie Green's son Benjy Green.
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