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...George Friedland, 51, co-founder (with his elder brother, Board Chairman Samuel Friedland) of Food Fair Stores, seventh largest* retail food chain (1952 sales: $292.6 million), stepped down from the presidency and into the newly created post of vice chairman "for one fundamental reason: I have long felt that younger men should be given the opportunity to carry forward the aggressive policy of our company." The policy calls for construction of 35 to 40 new supermarkets by the end of 1954. His successor: Vice President and General Counsel Louis Stein (Friedland's nephew), 47, who joined Food Fair...
...this whoopla was nothing new to George and Sam Friedland, the hard-selling brothers who run Food Fair Stores. They have pyramided a single small butcher shop into a chain of 131 big stores, the seventh biggest food chain in the U.S. Moreover, they have made it unique as the only major chain which consists of nothing but supermarkets. It is so efficient that it can usually meet the prices of such giants as A & P and Safeway, yet nets more out of every sales dollar (2.30?) than any other chain in the big eight...
Board Chairman Sam Friedland, now 54, and President George, 49, have been handling food since their boyhood, when they cut meat in their father's kosher butcher shop in Bayonne, N.J. In 1921, they scraped up $1,000, and opened their own meat store in Harrisburg, Pa. In eleven years, they built a string of 25 small food shops in Pennsylvania...
Members of the organization also elected the following seven girls as delegates to the National A.D.A.-S.D.A. Convention February 22 to 25 in Cleveland: Vera Blazz '53, Margaret Byers '53, Joyce Friedland '52, Ellin Louria '52, Helen Margolle '52, Elinor Meiss '53, and Cornelia Rose '53. These girls will meet with the Cambridge A.D.A. next week to discuss policies before going to the convention...
Harold Friedman '46--Evelyn Friedland (Washington...