Northern Pacific also announced last Friday that it would buy Fair Lanes, Inc., the nation’s largest independent operator of bowling centers, for $95 million. It also owns Lamonts, a chain of 32 family apparel stores in the Northwest. is part of the Trump Group, owned by Julius and Eddie Trump. He also said the combined operation would open 100 new stores in 1987. He said Checker Auto Parts, Kragen and Schuck’s Auto Supply will continue to operate under their current names. ″Checker is in 20 markets, and it dominates 12 of them. ″It’s the perfect marriage,″ Dan Siewert III, Schuck’s president and chief executive officer, told The Seattle Times. Northern Pacific owns Schucks, which operates 95 stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.Ĭhecker, based in Dublin, Calif., operates 378 stores in 12 Western states under the Checker and Kragen names, Trump said.Ĭhecker and Kragen had sales of $303 million in the fiscal year ended last February. The $155 million cash purchase, which includes Kragen Auto Parts, is scheduled to close later this month, Eddie Trump, president of Northern Pacific Corp., said in a news release Monday. SEATTLE (AP) _ The parent company of Schuck’s Auto Supply has announced it will buy the Checker Auto Parts subsidiary of Lucky Stores, Inc., creating the largest retail auto parts and accessories chain in the United States.
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