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Foodarama company history timeline

1973

Foodarama is founded in the year 1973 by Carrol Cox, and other key people include H. Russell Heiser, Jr.

1979

Saker lost his lawsuit in 1979 but remained the largest shareholder in Wakefern.

1981

The company's stock dipped as low as $3.25 a share in 1981, the first of three years out of the next four in which its net income fell below $1 million.

1987

Foodarama disposed of its Connecticut stores in 1987, reducing the number of its units to 24.

Foodarama Supermarkets had record net income of $3.7 million on sales of $482 million in fiscal 1987 and made almost as much profit the following year.

1991

The company's long-term debt reached a troublesome $71.7 million in early 1991.

1994

In February 1994 the company announced that it had defaulted on $35.2 million of loans and disclosed increasing operating losses.

1998

Another opened in February 1998 in East Windsor as a replacement for an older, smaller unit in Highstown.

Three leases had been signed by April 1998 for replacement locations, with additional plans to expand one existing store and the expansion of the chain's Long Branch store also under way.

The company's long-term debt was $50.7 million at the end of fiscal 1998.

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