Carr history

The elder of the two companies was J.B. Gottstein & Co., a retail grocery and wholesale grocery distributor founded in 1915, but the heart of the company created through the merger was Carrs Quality Centers, an Alaska grocery store company founded 35 years after J.B. Gottstein began business.

Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1929, Carr developed an early interest in food retailing.

Carr arrived in Anchorage in 1947 at age 19 and immediately set himself to the task of fulfilling his childhood dream, a dream he was three years away from turning into reality.

In 1959, he was selected as Retailer of the Year by the National Brand Names Foundation.

Since the 1960's Carr's arguments have moved to a central place in British thinking and now constitute the dominant paradigm for moderate reconstructionist historians.

His ideas were outlined in What is History? first published in 1961.

In 1970, he was awarded first prize for food store advertising by the Women's Day Super Market Institute.

The tide began to turn, however, in 1980 when Carrs Quality Centers joined Topco Associates, the second-largest food-buying organization in the United States.

In 1986, two companies with decades of experience in Alaska merged together to form what would become the largest Alaska-owned, Alaska-based company in the state, Carr-Gottstein Foods.

In October 1990, when annual sales reached $500 million, the deal was finalized, ceding Cairns and Williams control over Alaska's largest and most profitable supermarket chain.

Tosh, John (1991) The Pursuit of History London, Longman.

In May 1993, the company announced it was intending to sell 8.8 million shares of stock in an initial public offering (IPO) that would give outside investors a 56.9 percent stake in Carr-Gottstein.

In total, 1.5 million square feet of new retail space was opened in 1994, quickly eclipsing the 900,000 square feet operated by Carr-Gottstein's.

Callinicos, Alex (1995) Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History, Cambridge, Polity Press.

In August 1996, Lawrence H. Hayward was named president and chief executive officer of Carr-Gottstein, succeeding Williams, who remained with the company as vice chairman.

He is not referenced nor indexed in Keith Jenkins (1997) Postmodern History Reader, London, Routledge.

Acquisition of WM Nicholls & Company (Crickhowell) Ltd based in Crickhowell, Wales, complementing the acquisition of B E Williams Ltd in 2014, and consolidating our feed business in South Wales.