In 1958, Joe Coulombe took over a small chain of convenience stores in the Los Angeles area called Pronto Markets. As Trader Joe's Vice President of Marketing Product Matt Sloan put it in a ...

Trader Joe's was born in 1958 as a small chain of Southern California convenience stores opened by a drugstore executive named Joe Coulombe. In 1967 he changed the stores' name from Pronto Markets ...

If his name doesn't ring a bell, his company will: Joe Coulombe, MBA graduate of 1954, founded the grocery chain Trader Joe's in 1967. Today Trader Joe's is one of the top groceries in the U.S ...