1960s. 1  1963: The first Consumer Value Store (CVS), selling health and beauty products, was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts by brothers Stanley and Sidney Goldstein and Scandinavian American Ralph Hoagland. 2  1964: CVS had 17 stores that sold primarily health and beauty products.
Saturn Vue. The Saturn VUE is a compact SUV that was sold and built by General Motors, and it was Saturn's best-selling model. It was the first vehicle to use the GM Theta platform when it was introduced in 2001 for the 2002 model-year. The VUE was later facelifted for the 2006 model-year.
The Saturn brand came out of General Motors' attempt to reclaim the market share that was lost to Japanese imports in the 1980s. In 1982, Alex C. Mair devised the new revolutionary concept that he called Saturn.