Royal Purple continues to grow in the US and internationally. Royal Purple was acquired in 2012 by Calumet Specialty Products Partners (CLMT), a leading refiner and processor of specialty hydrocarbon products headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.
Al Ghad was founded by Mohammad Alayyan in August 2004. Alayyan is also the chairman of the Al Faridah Specialized Printing, publisher of the daily. As of 2005 Emad Hmoud was the editor-in-chief of the paper.
Food writers James Beard and Evan Jones believed that the Denver or Western sandwich was created by the many Chinese chefs who cooked for logging camps and railroad gangs in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was probably derived from egg foo young.