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13861
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Autobell Car Wash, Inc., founded in Charlotte in 1969 by the late Chuck Howard, Sr. and currently overseen by his son Chuck, Jr., is the nation's largest regional car-wash chain. Still privately owned, the company recently opened its sixty-first wash. Each new one costs an average of $2 million.
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4662
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Thirty-one years ago, Chuck Howard, Sr., started Autobell, a car wash chain, in Charlotte. Today Chuck Howard, Jr. runs the firm, and during the year 2000, over 1.25 million cars will pass through Autobell's wash and rinse cycles. Autobell is the nation's biggest regional car wash chain and fourth largest privately-owned conveyor-operated car wash nationally.
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North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 58 Issue 6, June 2000, p18, por
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4894
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Autobell Car Wash, Inc., founded in 1969 by the late Chuck Howard, Sr. and currently overseen by his son Chuck, Jr., is the nation's fourth-largest car-wash chain, with twenty-six locations across North Carolina. The company does not offer franchises and remains a privately owned company. In 2000, Autobell had sales of $12 million. Of the 125 million gallons of water used last year, 80 percent was recycled. This environmentally friendly approach makes the company appealing to cities like Cary where car-wash recycling is mandatory.
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37166
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With the same theme as another article in this edition, Susan Stafford Kelly's, “For the Love of Fish,” this article profiles North Carolina companies owned by the same families. Among the forty were Joe Sugar’s of St. Paul’s, founded 1916; Winston-Salem’s Quality Oil, established 1937; Raleigh’s Capitol Broadcasting, founded 1937; Morehead City’s El’s Drive-In, established 1959.
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