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I was looking at the ‘Power Buyer Dealers’ (PBD West) website, which is the company that Jirard’s father runs. Apparently it’s some sort of consulting company that operates in California, Arizona. Texas, and Louisana. Their function is to help independent gas stations get access to inventory pipelines that are typically exclusive to national chain convince stores. The company has like 7 employees. They apparently have accomplished the following:
-They helped launch Convientent Valet, a trial/travel size product distributor in 1994. Convienent Valet was founded in 1997, and makes no mention of PBD West.
-They were the first company to help distribute Monster Energy drinks in 1998. Monster energy was launched in 2002 and makes no mention of PBD West in their company history.
-They also launched 7Up Products, General Mills, Balance Bar, FiJi Water, Venom Energy, and Juul Vapes. They say they helped develop proof of concept packaging and also consulted the price points for all of these products. None of these companies mention any association with PBD West.
-The Tobacco Back Bar, the thing behind the gas station employees that holds all of the cigarettes, was supposedly invented by Charles Khalil.
“Seeing an opportunity for innovation, PBD develops, moulds, produces, and installs the first 1000 Tobacco Backbars in the world.” They also say it’s patented. I do not feel like verifying this atm, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t true.
Apparently all of this consulting is free of charge, and PBD gets paid in percentages of rebates given to the independent gas station owner. I have no idea how any of that works, but it sounds confusing.
This is the same company that shares the same exact address and phone number with The Open Hand foundation, right down the the same suite #. 2459 W 208th Street.
Something else interesting about 2459 W 208th street building is that is has been listed for lease 3 times:
Sept 26th, 2016
August 25th. 2017
Sept 17th, 2018
The Khalil Compund
Idk, just seems incredibly strange to have a company operating two seperate personal businesses and a private foundation running in the same building, which is owned by the same person who runs both the business and the foundation.