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Barbeques Galore is a US chain of retail stores specializing in barbecue grills, accessories and consumables. There are 20 company-owned stores, one franchise store and several authorized dealers in the United States of America. The US business was purchased by Grand Home Holdings Inc in late-2008. Barbeques Galore represents Lynx, Twin Eagles, Weber, FireMagic, Big Green Egg as well as produces in its own factories. The Barbeques Galore brand of proprietary products known as Turbo, Turbo Elite,Captain Cook and Grand Turbo. New for 2014, the company released a new Turbo Charcoal grill that comes in a built-in and cart model. ==History== Barbeques Galore was started in a garage in Sydney's outer western suburbs in 1972. The first company store opened in 1977. The company expanded to the United States in 1980, opening a store in Santa Fe Springs, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The firm concentrated initially on warm-weather US states such as California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Texas, Georgia and Florida. Later they ventured into more seasonal markets such as North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC. After ten years as a listed company on the Australian Stock Exchange, Barbeques Galore delisted in 1996, and soon after listed on the US NASDAQ. In late 2005, the firm was delisted from the NASDAQ after a leveraged buy-out by Australian venture capital firm, Ironbridge Capital.〔André Sammartino (2007), 'Retail’, in Dick, H. & Merrett, D. (eds.), ''The Internationalisation Strategies of Small-Country Firms: The Australian Experience of Globalisation'', Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp.175-194.〕 Ironbridge Capital split the Australian and US arms of the business into two separate entities (but retained ownership of both). Following a severe downturn in business in the US, partly attributed to the fall in new housing on the back of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, Barbeques Galore USA filed for protection under Chapter 11 on August 15, 2008. Barbeques Galore US assets were purchased by Grand Home Holdings Inc. on September 12, 2008. The US company liquidated all of its retail outlets east of Texas, including Maryland, Virginia, Florida and Georgia. According to documents filed in US Bankruptcy court, the company continues to exist as Barbeques Galore as owned by Grand Home Holdings Inc. operating 20 stores in California, Arizona and Texas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbeques Galore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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