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First Cash Financial Services company history timeline

1988

In July 1988 he incorporated First Cash Inc. in order to launch a chain of pawnshops.

1991

Later in 1991 the chain made its first out-of-state acquisitions, paying $550,000 in cash to buy Happy Hocker and Granny's Pawn in Oklahoma City.

1992

In early 1992 First Cash made some changes in its management structure.

1993

1993: Payne and four other board members resign to pursue other interests.

1994

First Cash resumed its acquisition activities in June 1994, when it paid nearly $4 million in cash and notes to buy Famous Pawn, a seven-store chain operating in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area.

1996

A month later it bought three more pawnshops in the city at a cost of $1.6 million. It bought three Baltimore pawnshops in May 1996 at a cost of nearly $2.5 million in cash.

1997

First Cash then added another seven stores in 1997.

1999

Name Change in 1999: First Cash Financial Services

2002

In 2002 the company posted record revenues of $118.8 million and net profits just shy of $11 million.

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