Dairy Mart acquires the Lawson’s store brands, including Big-O orange juice and Lawson’s Original Chip Dip. 1996: Lawson Japan opens first store in China (in 2022 there were 363). 2001: Mitsubishi ...

The Lawson Co., founded in 1939, was acquired by Dairy Mart in 1985. All Lawson stores were later converted to Dairy Mart stores. "This is an amazing discovery at a special time.

The city’s Planning Commission recently approved a variance and architectural review of plans to renovate the old Lawson’s Dairy Mart at 321 Water St. ... Sign up for email newsletters.

But in 1985, the company’s owner, Sara Lee Corp. (previously known as Consolidated Foods Corp.), sold Lawson’s to Dairy Mart, which later renamed the stores.

The acquisitions help end a troubled chapter in Dairy Mart's long history, which dates back to 1939 when J.J. Lawson opened a small store at his Broad Street dairy plant in Cuyahoga Falls. Dairy ...

When Dairy Mart executives purchased the popular Northeast Ohio Lawson Milk Co. stores from Consolidated Foods in the mid-1980s, they also swallowed stores from five other independent companies. Along ...

Dairy Mart, 33630 Aurora Road, closed its doors Monday and will not reopen. However, according to a sign on the building, a new store, D & M Food Mart, will move in. Manny Eid, reached by phone ...

But by 1985 the company’s owner at the time, Sara Lee Corp. (previously known as Consolidated Foods Corp.), sold the Lawson’s stores to Dairy Mart. (After declaring bankruptcy in 2001, Dairy Mart ...

During Colaccino’s tenure, Dairy Mart’s share price fell sharply — from a high of $9.25 a share in May 1992, two months after the buyout, to $3.50 a share the day he was fired.