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Abarta Inc
- Address:
- 1000 R I D C Plaza #404
Pittsburgh, PA 15238 - Phone:
- 412-963-6226
- Website:
- http://www.abarta.com/welcome.htm
- Company Information:
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ABARTA, Inc. is a private holding company with three main subsidiaries operating in the industries of soft drink beverages, newspaper publishing, and oil and gas exploration and development. With three generations of experience and tradition, ABARTA remains strong in each of its industries.
The Beginning of ABARTA
The founder of ABARTA, Rolland Adams, started his company in 1933. Employed as a bank examiner at the time, Adams acquired an interest in a bankrupt newspaper—The Bethlehem Globe. He became its operating head, and subsequently bought out his investment partners. Adams continued to grow his company by purchasing The Atlantic City Press (later renamed The Press of Atlantic City) in 1953. He began diversifying the company in 1963 by gaining partial interest in the Bethlehem Coca-Cola and Pittsburgh Coca-Cola bottling franchises.
The ABARTA name was created in 1963 when Adams’ three sons-in-law, John Bitzer, Jr., George Roehr and Don Taylor, purchased The Atlantic City Press and 10 percent of Adams’ Coca-Cola interests. They created the acronym “ABARTA” to represent the families’ last names—an “A”for each of the Adams daughters (Mimi, Ann and Marcia), “B” for Bitzer, “R” for Roehr, and “T” for Taylor.
Adams’ holdings were in his wife Pauline’s name. When she passed away in 1969, their three daughters inherited The Bethlehem Globe and the remaining Coca-Cola interests. This left the second-generation wives essentially owning one-half of
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