The Hall China Company of East Liverpool, Ohio, made the first pieces of the Autumn Leaf pattern ware, also known as Jewel Tea, as premiums for the Jewel Tea Company of Barrington, Ill., in 1933, with ...

A decade ago, Jewel Tea Co. consisted of little more than a chain of Chicago-area supermarkets. Then it began branching into other lines and locations. Renamed the Jewel Companies, it has grown into a ...

Many businesses appear on the American marketing scene every year, to help the consumer in the fulfillment of his needs, wants, and desires. Most eventually fail, or at best survive in a marginal ...

One year before the Century’s turn a Chicago tea salesman named Frank Vernon Skiff who had saved $700 started a wagon route on his own, peddling dry groceries from door to door. He peddled for two ...

Kroger, the largest traditional grocery chain in the nation, has bid to buy Albertsons, seeking to create a supermarket behemoth with nearly 5,000 stores and more than $200 billion in annual revenue.

Jewel Foods Stores has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Central Grocers to acquire 19 Strack & Van Til stores and other certain assets. Jewel-Osco will serve as the “stalking horse bidder ...

TeaSquares will begin selling its tea-infused energy bars in all 187 Chicago-area Jewel-Osco stores later this year — a significant milestone in a challenging journey for the South Side food startup.