A business that would eventually include 600 stores was founded by his parents, Greek immigrants Vasilios Spiros Haseotes and Aphrodite Bassis Haseotes. With just $84 and one cow, the couple started a dairy farm in their hometown of Cumberland.
Through the years, the farm grew and the family opened its first dairy store in Bellingham, Massachusetts, in the 1950s. Many of the couple’s eight children took on leadership roles in the business.
From humble dairy operation to major supplier of gas up and down the East Coast
The stores added products, and the company expanded into gasoline sales, purchasing Gulf and Chevron service stations in 10 northeastern states in the mid-1980s and some 200 Exxon stations in 2003.
Mr. Haseotes’ family eventually owned and operated more than 600 Cumberland Farms convenience stores and provided gas to some 2,500 Gulf stations throughout New England, New York, the Mid-Atlantic states, and Florida through its Cumberland Gulf Group. The company was acquired by EG Group in 2019…