HUNTS POINT COOPERATIVE MARKET

The Hunts Point Cooperative Market Inc. is a cooperative owned by its member stockholders. The company operates and maintains a facility in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx for its member shareholders and other tenants, all of which are primarily involved in the process and distribution of meat and meat products in the tri-state area. The facility is the largest of its kind in the world and is the major distribution hub for the New York City metro area.   ·         Approximately 2400 employees work in the Hunts Point Coop Market ·         The market was originally built in 1972 as a 40-acre facility with 6 buildings but now is over 60 acres with 7 buildings ·         The Coop consists of 52 companies that process and distribute meat and meat products in just under one million square feet.

HUNTS POINT COOPERATIVE 2008

THE JAMNAGAR OIL REFINERY

 

The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m3/d). Its current installed capacity is 1,240,000 barrels per day (197,000 m3/d). It is currently the largest refinery in the world.  The entire complex, as of 2013, consists of manufacturing and allied facilities, utilities, off-sites, port facilities and a township (415 acres) with housing for its 2,500 employees, on over 7,500 acres (11.7 sq mi) of land. If all the pipes used in the refinery were laid out, one after another, they would connect the whole of India from north to south.

THE JAMNAGAR REFINERY AT NIGHT

CHRISTMAS TREE SALES

 

GASOLINE STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1972-2019

In 1972 there were nearly 290,000 public gasoline stations serving 106 million vehicles nationwide. The number of public gasoline stations declined throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s. By 1990 there were 174,000 public gasoline stations serving 179 million vehicles nationwide. In 2019 there are only 142,000 stations serving more than 276 million vehicles. According to a Lundberg Survey, gasoline gallons dispensed per station is at a record high.

IBN BATTUTA MALL – DUBAI

The Ibn Battuta Mall, located on the Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai is the world’s largest themed shopping mall. The mall has more than 270 shops, 50 restaurants, a 21-screen cinema and over 4,500 parking spaces. The mall consists of six courts, each of whose designs are inspired by some of the countries visited by the Moroccan Berber explorer, Ibn Battuta: Andalusia Court, China Court, Egypt Court, India Court and Tunisia Court. Please note: Your humble blogger does not care for shopping malls.

INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA (ICBC)

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) is the largest bank in the world by total assets, deposits, loans, number of customers and number of employees. ICBC was simultaneously listed on both the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange on October 27, 2006. It was the world’s largest IPO at that time, raising $21.9 billion and surpassing the previous record of $18.4 billion IPO by Japan’s NTT DoCoMo in 1998. As of 2006, ICBC has 2.5 million corporate customers and 150 million individual customers. As of December 2017, it had assets worth $4.9 trillion. HSBC ranks number 1 in The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks ranking, and first on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s biggest public companies. Bonus Fun Fact: The four largest banks are all headquartered in China; ICBC, China Construction Bank Corporation, Agricultural Bank of China, and Bank of China. JP Morgan Chase and Co., is the largest U.S. Bank and ranks number 6 in the world.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY BY THE NUMBERS

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CRACKER BARREL RESTAURANT

Ray and Wilma Yoder of Goshen, Indiana have dined at all 645 Cracker Barrel locations in the United States. The couple are 80 years old (2017) and began dining at Cracker Barrel restaurants 40 years ago. Their mission to dine at all 645 Cracker Barrel locations was completed when they dined at the Tualatin, Oregon location on Monday August 28, 2017.

STATES THAT DO NOT HAVE A CRACKER BARREL
1	Alaska
2	Hawaii
3	Vermont
4	Washington
5	Wyoming

Ray and Wilma Yoder

COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST 20-FOOT CONTAINERS PASSING THROUGH THEIR PORTS

Top 10 Countries with the Most 20-foot Containers Passing Through Their Ports
Rank	Country	20-Foot Container Count (2017)
1	China (Including Hong Kong)	234,489,920
2	United States	51,425,464
3	Singapore	33,600,000
4	South Korea	27,427,000
5	Malaysia	24,719,000
6	Japan	21,904,444
7	United Arab Emirates	21,280,900
8	Germany	19,447,600
9	Spain	17,065,000
10	Netherlands	13,951,000

BUCC-EE'S - WORLD'S LONGEST CAR WASH

The Bucc-ee’s located at 1-10 and Cane Island Parkway in Katy, Texas has the longest car wash in the world. It is 85 yards long and has 32 vacuum stations.

This is the lamest news team I have ever seen. The anchor person in the studio asks the field reporter; "you actually went through the car wash?" (JKS)

BUCC-EE'S - WORLD'S LARGEST CONVENIENCE STORE

Bucc-ee’s on Interstate 35 in New Braunfels, Texas is the largest convenience store in the world at 68,000 square feet. The store features 120 fueling positions, 83 toilets, 31 cash registers, 4 Icee machines and 80 fountain dispensers.

BUCC-EE'S NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS

THE TIME THAT PEPSICO WAS THE SIXTH MOST POWERFUL MILITARY IN THE WORLD

Pepsi was first introduced to the Russian people in the late 1950s.

In 1972, the Soviet Union wanted to strike a deal that would bring Pepsi products to their country permanently. However, there was an issue of how they would pay for it, as their currency was not accepted throughout the world. A solution was eventually reached when vodka* was used as the medium of exchange.

In the late 1980s, Russia’s initial agreement to import Pepsi into the country was set to expire, and vodka wasn’t going to cover the cost of renewing the agreement.

This time the Russians offered to trade Pepsi a fleet of subs and boats in exchange for Pepsi products. The new agreement included; 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer. The combined fleet was traded for $3 billion worth of Pepsi products.

The historical exchange caused Pepsi to become the 6th most powerful military in the world.

Shortly after taking ownership of the naval vessels, Pepsi sold the fleet to a Swedish company for scrap recycling.

*Bonus Fact: As a result of the 1922 trade deal, Pepsi became the sole distributor of Stolichnaya Vodka in the U.S. until 1989.