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Sol A. Shenk led a very fruitful life. His auto parts wholesale shop in 1967 had transformed into a $1 billion business by the time of his death in 1994. Today, that business is an empire approaching the 1,500-store threshold in the U.S. and Canada.
Sep 1, 1994 · Sol A. Shenk, who built a single surplus outlet in Columbus, Ohio, into the Consolidated Stores Corporation, an empire with more than 700 stores and annual sales of $1.1 billion, died...
Sol Shenk: October 15, 1911 – August 30, 1994. Sol Shenk with the last De Lorean built. Sol, a Russian immigrant to the United States, started a business in 1967 selling closeout and overstock car parts. The business, Consolidated Stores….
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***You can see a fuller, 34-minute version of this interview on the BBC News YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdxBOOnVgnY ***The 24-minute versi...
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Sep 1, 1994 · SOL SHENK. Shenk, the Consolidated Stores founder who took a chance on a home shopping cable network in the 1960s and DeLorean cars in the 1980s, died Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio. He was 83.
Jun 20, 2017 · A father’s sacrifice pays off. Andre recently stopped by The ILC to help a friend register for class and tell us what he’s been up to since he left us in 2012. In honor of the recent Father’s Day holiday, I’m sharing his story with you.
Early in 1982 Bank of America seized 1,400 DeLorean DMC-12’s because John DeLorean’s company failed to make payments on a…
