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Price Costco (Mirror)
Newspaper Clippings:
Costco will be forced to bag this
project
Seattle Times, January 21, 2001, by Matt Lazier
The (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) Tribune
The San Luis Obispo (California) City
Council voted 3-2 last week to
approve a law limiting the amount of groceries that
"big-box" retailers can sell and asked for
another ordinance limiting the size of such stores. ...
Costco profit up 23%; chain moves into
Japan
Seattle Times, Thursday, May 28, 1998, by Jake Batsell
"Costco today posted a 23 percent gain in
its third-quarter profit and said it will open a retail warehouse in
Japan, marking the company's second foray this month into an Asian
market."
Decade after retreat, Costco tries again
Seattle Times, Sept. 6, 1997
by Lee Moriwaki
A bigger, stronger and more mature Costco
plans to re-enter the Midwest with five new warehouses in Detroit
next spring.
Costco: the empire built on bargains, Seattle Times, 7/20/97
In just 14 years, Costco has become the 49th-largest company in
the United States, the country's seventh-largest
retailer and the state's second-largest sales leader, behind Boeing.
Visionary, born retailer collaborate
Seattle Times, Sunday, July 20, 1997
by Lee Moriwaki
Jeff Brotman and Jim Sinegal came up with
Costco's name over beers at a restaurant in South Seattle. "We didn't
need to hire a firm for a couple hundred thousand dollars to come up
with some name for us," Brotman said. "We got loose enough to come up
with a name ourselves."
Costco Corp. tells shareholders there's plenty of room for growth,
Seattle Times, Feb.27, 1986, C4. [by Svein Gilje]
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