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1921 – NOVEMBER 2026 · 50860 PRINCESS WAY AND THE TWO GRANGER STORES
Big C Lumber. The banked fragment carries William Hass and George Bales (1921 purchase; 1926 reincorporation; Hass's c. 1935 buyout of Bales) and then jumps to Roger Foley in 1982. The firm's own published history and trade profiles fill the span and finish the line. Control passed from Hass to his children and to his son-in-law William Foley; in 1968 the business split in three, the Foleys keeping the Big C yards (VaultMill executive profile of the current president, summarising the company record). Roger Foley took management and the controlling interest in 1982 — and the company's own timeline dates the next step the fragment lacked: in January 1998 Roger Foley stepped down as president and CEO, Matt Magor was promoted to the position, and Foley became chairman of the board (Big C Lumber, "Our History" timeline). The present chief, as of November 2026, is Bill Wallace, president and CEO — an outside hire from 84 Lumber, where he was division vice-president (West) — who led the company through its 2021 centennial (ZoomInfo and LBM Journal, which quotes Wallace as president and CEO in 2025–2026). The family's present rank prints in the company's current About roster: Roger Foley, chairman emeritus; Bridget Brady, CFO and co-chairman; Nick Brady, co-chairman. The succession therefore runs: Hass (1921–c. 1935, then sole) → the Hass children and son-in-law William Foley → Roger Foley (controlling interest 1982; president & CEO to January 1998) → Matt Magor (president & CEO from January 1998) → Bill Wallace (president & CEO, current). One conflict prints whole: an older captured version of the same About page lists "Matt Magor, Chairman" in present management, while the current page lists the Bradys as co-chairmen and Magor not at all; the current page governs the as-of date, and the older line is preserved here rather than silently dropped. A second conflict, of generation-counting: the banked fragment repeats the firm's "fifth generation" line, an older About version says "fourth generation," and the current site says fifth — the count moved as the family did, and both print.
Martin's Super Markets. The fragment carries the founders and the 2018 sale; the trade press and the Congressional Record carry the middle and the end. Martin and Jane Tarnow founded the chain in 1947 and began retiring in 1977, fully retired by 1985 (Martin Tarnow obituary, South Bend Tribune, Aug. 18, 1998). Their son-in-law Robert "Bob" Bartels — who married Nancy Tarnow in 1964 and joined the firm that year as a right-hand executive — became president and CEO in 1973 at 51 (the sketch's age as printed in the Congressional Record tribute, July 22, 2015), and chairman in 2005; under him the single store became a 21-store corporation (Congressional Record, 114th Cong., CREC-2015-07-22, PgE1098; Progressive Grocer obituary, 2015). Bob Bartels died July 17, 2015. His son Rob Bartels — the founders' grandson — was president when the family sold to SpartanNash, announced November 20, 2018 and closed December 31, 2018 (SpartanNash announcement; The Produce News, Jan. 3, 2019). The house then ran as a SpartanNash banner until SpartanNash itself was acquired by C&S Wholesale Grocers — $26.90 per share, $1.77 billion including assumed net debt, announced June 23, 2025 and completed September 22, 2025 — and the Granger Heritage Square store's June 2026 refresh prints Martin's as "a member of the C&S family of companies" (C&S/SpartanNash merger releases; The Shelby Report). The succession runs complete: Martin & Jane Tarnow (1947–1973 in chief, retiring to 1985) → Bob Bartels (president & CEO 1973–2005 as chief executive, chairman 2005–2015) → Rob Bartels (president to the 2018 sale) → SpartanNash (2018–2025) → C&S Wholesale Grocers (2025– ).
Sources: Big C Lumber Co., "Our History" timeline and About page (bigclumber.com, current and earlier captures, crawled November 2026); LBM Journal, Big C general-manager announcement (2025); ZoomInfo / VaultMill, Bill Wallace profile; Congressional Record tribute to Robert Eugene Bartels (July 22, 2015); Progressive Grocer, "Martin's Super Markets' Bob Bartels: 1937–2015"; Martin Tarnow obituary (South Bend Tribune, 1998); SpartanNash acquisition announcement (Nov. 20, 2018); C&S–SpartanNash merger releases (June 23 and Sept. 22, 2025).