Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1951 — Page 44

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| Xo-We-Ba, Operating In 63d Year, Has Fine Plant Here

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: vo ige Pittman, secretary, and Edward H. Mueller, sales manager . . . veteran executives of Decorated in birch, this is the quiet, refreshing interior of the well-windowed, well-lighted recep-{0-We-Ba. tion office. :

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Among Most Modern in Country Ko-We-Ba wholesale grocery is clicking off its 63rd year of] feeding the Midwest. { it The job is done from the corporation’s new streamlined wage-! Y see house at 50 S. Ko-We-Ba Lane and in branch offices in Kokomo and Wabash, of one . The $250,000 building was’ erected after three years’ study of warehouses over the country. It, oo ‘the company’s 2500 retail a low occupies 2% acres and has 2400 grocers, hotels, restaurarts and square feet of office space. institutiens. | Soon after occupancy, company, Ceiling heights in the ware- : officers began plans for an‘ open house reach 17%, designed un- 5, ’ : ’ : house. Late this spring Ko-We-Ba usually high to permit free cir-| We. i : b 3 : 4 | : . ' EE ayring Roe Bausually igh io emit free a Ko-We Ba plans spring open house in new warehouse af 50 S. Ko-We-Ba Lane. Building, costing $250,000, incorporates best features of the nation's warehouses. friends in the new one-story build- cessive humidity that hardens!/from the pallet and takes it to/April, 1950. Work started soon space is divided into a spacious; Wells and George Bauer, all of|cers only, with exception of frozen, Ko-We-Ba has grown and prose ing. (sugar, salt and soap. reserve or active stock lines. afterwards, the contract going to|reception room, rooms for di-|whom are dead, A. H. Gisler is|foods. ‘i . |pered in its 63 years. Incorporated aba Mready in operation are the! Designed throughout for effi-| Three truck receiving doors and Industrial Operations Inc. with| rectors, salesmen and account- president of the company. Ko-We-Ba opened for businessiin 1908 with a number of its various departments, includ- ciency, merchandise is moved in a three railroad receiving doers are J, Vincent New, president, in per-|ants, lunch room gnd lounges.| Locally founded, owned and|at Maryland and Pennsylvania |employees buying stock, its aning the new $20,000 frozen food one-man operation. All merchan-jarranged to permit inside truck/sonal charge. Remainder of space is for general operated, independent of national|Sts. and later moved to 240 Vir-|nual business approximates $4 room, latest room of its kind to dise is placed on pallets instead of shipping. | Interior work, including the warehouse use. organizations, it is maintained|ginia Ave. remaining there until| million. : be built in the U, 8. {being handled individually. An! Ground for the concrete block|birch decorations, was done by| Ko-We-Ba was established in by, people active in its organiza-|moving to the new building Dec. Annually Ko-We-Ba All building details speed serv- electric fork-lift truck picks it up and brick building was broken in'Harold McGlashan, The office 1888 by William Kothe, C. W./tioh. It sells to independent gro-|26. bonuses to its 50 employees.

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