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Best Chicago Meat Co. / Moo & Oink (supplier→brand rescue)

CTL-E-1349 · Business · other · 1976–2011 (retail); brand continues under Best Chicago Meat from 2012

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Moo & Oink (originally Calumet Meat Co., renamed 1976) was a South/West Side grocery-and-meat chain (4 stores, 200 employees) that entered Chapter 7 bankruptcy September 2011; stores closed, real estate unsold. Its supplier of 30 years — the second-generation Black-owned Best Chicago Meat Co. — bought the brand at auction ($530,000) and rebuilt it to 300 stores in five states. A supplier→retailer cycle link and a Black-owned rescue of a community brand.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-009; source research type(s): firm.

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