Description: Beginning with one store on North Avenue in 1899, National Tea became the region's largest retail grocery chain. By 1920, when there were about 160 stores in the chain, annual sales approached $13 million. By the end of the 1920s, National Tea had over 600 locations in the Chicago area and another 1,000 stores nationwide; sales had grown to about $90 million a year. Many of these stores were closed or sold during the Great Depression, but National Tea remained among the 10 largest grocery chains in the United States for most of the twentieth century. During the 1950s, it acquired about 500 new stores by buying up smaller chains. In 1956, when annual sales topped $600 million and the company had nearly 20,000 employees nationwide, National Tea was purchased by George Weston Ltd., a Canadian company Common Stock Certificate Number NC4471.....Dated April 4 ,1933....For 100 Shares....In Favor of Oliver A Bestel.........Printed by American Bank Note Company........ Attractive olive green border......Very nice vignette featuring a seated woman, arm outstretched resting on books with an oil lamp next to her ........ (01121923595) . .
Price: 5.95 USD
Location: Travelers Rest, South Carolina
End Time: 2024-02-19T13:44:20.000Z
Shipping Cost: 3.95 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
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