The founders of Subway stepped in, purchased the business, and opened up a new development opportunity.

It was soon noticed by a California market research firm, the Dohring Company, and in 2000 the firm's founder, Doug Dohring, purchased the site.

In the few years prior to opening, the founders, Bob and Ruth Morrell, had purchased a large number of dolls from Germany based on storybook characters.

The station is owned by Fun With Radio, LLC whose founder, Roger Vaughan, purchased the station from Video Services in 1992.

The company started in 1840 when its founder, 22 year old Robert E. Dietz purchased a Lamp & Oil business in Brooklyn, New York.

The founders purchased an L.D.S. chapel in Pleasant Grove, Utah, and opened American Heritage School (Utah) in 1970 with 80 students enrolled.

MasterChef host and founder of Smiths of Smithfield, John Torode, in 2007 purchased Seiners in Perranporth.

In 1995, he arranged for the institution to accept the university's entire collection of nonbotanical fossils - a quarter-million specimens, including many that the university's founder, Ezra Cornell, had purchased.

In 1913 its founder, Ira Clifton Copley, purchased the "Joliet News" a paper which was founded in 1877.

The Club was officially formed when the founders purchased its first boat, the Hesperus, from Bachelors Barge Club.