Spar (retailer) throughout Asia, Africa and Oceania. In fiscal year 2017, SPAR achieved €34.5 billion ($40.1 billion) in global sales, which represented a 5.3 percent increase over 2016. The SPAR motto is "under the tree" The name was originally DE SPAR, an acronym of the Dutch phrase (). The acronym was chosen in order to resonate with the verb "sparen", which (related to English "spare") means "save [money]" in Dutch and some other languages, among them German and Scandinavian languages (with variants such as "spara" or "spare"). The acronym ended up meaning "the fir", after which the logo was chosen. As the
Gadzooks (retailer) Gadzooks (retailer) Gadzooks, Inc. was a mall-based teenage clothing retailer. It was acquired by Forever 21 in 2005 and then shut down. The company logo included the Volkswagen Beetle and all stores had a life-size version of part of a Beetle inside. The company was founded in 1983 as a T-shirt business by Jerry Szczepanski and Larry Titus. The first store was in Mesquite, Texas. By 1992, the company had 33 stores in Texas. In 1995, the company became a public company via an initial public offering and within 3 months, the share price quadrupled from $15 to $61. That