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Twitter Corporate Office

Twitter

Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. Their idea was to create a SMS-based social network.

Twitter is an online social network that enables users to send tweets, or messages of 140 characters or less, which are posted in real time.

Twitter experienced rapid growth, with 40,000 tweets per day at the beginning of 2007 and 400,000 tweets per day by the end of the same year.

History

By the company’s sixth birthday in 2012 it had 140 million users and 340 million tweets per day.

In 2013 Twitter went public, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol TWTR. The Initial Public Offering raised $1.82 billion.

Today Twitter is one of the ten most visited websites worldwide. Twitter claims 230 million users.

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H. J. Heinz Company Corporate Office

H. J. Heinz

H. J. Heinz was founded when Henry J. Heinz began packing foodstuffs in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania in 1869.

He founded Heinz Noble & Company and began to sell horseradish. This company failed and he started another company, F&J Heinz with his brother John Heinz and cousin Frederick Heinz. One of the company’s first products was tomato ketchup.

In 1888 the company reorganized as the H.J. Heinz Company with its slogan “57 Varieties.”

History

Today Heinz is still known for its “57 Varieties” slogan and ketchup.

The food processing company manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six continents. The products are marketed in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

In 2013 Heinz was purchased 3G Capital (50%) and Berkshire Hathaway (50%) for $23 billion.

Heinz is #26 on the list of Forbes Largest Private Companies, is #234 on the Fortune 500, is #418 in the FT Global, and had $11.64 billion in revenue in 2012.

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Eddie Bauer Corporate Office

Eddie Bauer

The company was founded in 1920 by an outdoorsman in the Pacific Northwest named Eddie Bauer. Bauer patented the first quilted down jacket. He went on to patent numerous other designs.

History

In 1968 Bauer retired and sold the company. General Mills bought the company in 1971, and Spiegel bought it from General Mills in 1988.

In 2003 Spiegel filed for bankruptcy and its assets were sold, except Eddie Bauer.

The company emerged from bankruptcy with the name Eddie Bauer Holdings and is now owned primarily by Golden Gate Capital.

Eddie Bauer has three sales channels: Retail Stores, which sell premium merchandise, Outlet Stores, which sell overstock and merchandise at cheaper prices, and Direct Order Center, which sells merchandise through call centers and the company’s website www.eddiebauer.com.

The company sells outerwear, apparel, accessories, and gear for women and men with an outdoor lifestyle through 370 stores throughout North America. The company is also involved in joint ventures in Japan.

In November 2020, JJJJound and Eddie Bauer teamed up to create classic sweaters and down vests.

The company maintains a corporate office in Seattle, Washington.

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Ashley Furniture Corporate Office

Ashley Furniture

Ashley Furniture is a furniture manufacturing and retailer.

History

Founded by Carlyle Weinberger in Chicago in 1945, the company’s specialty was wooden furniture made by local companies, which was resold to larger furniture stores.

In 1970 Ashley invested in Arcadia Furniture, a Wisconsin-based furniture manufacturer founded and operated by Ronald Wanek.

Wanek and a group of investors bought out Weinberger and took over Ashley Furniture. The two companies maintained their separate identities: Arcadia on production and Ashley on sales.

In 1982 the merged company’s annual sales were $12 million.

By the late 1990’s the company was operating assembly and distribution plants in Washington, California, New Jersey, and Florida.

In 2016, annual company revenue reached $3.85 billion.

The Ashley Furniture Homestore chain is composed of both corporate-owned stores and independently owned stores with licenses to sell Ashley Furniture products exclusively. The chain is popular with young persons and newly married couples, mostly due to liberal credit policies with Synchrony Bank.

Today Ashley Furniture manufactures and distributes home furniture throughout the world. The company maintains plants across the United States and also operates several factories (including its largest) in Pacific Rim countries such as Vietnam and China. In addition to those, they also have a sourcing office in India, Vietnam, Southern China, Muar, the furniture hub of Malaysia and Taiwan.

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Petco Corporate Office

Petco

Petco began when Walter Evans opened a mail-order veterinary supplies business in 1965 called UPCO or United Pharmaceutical Company. UPCO’s first customers were ranchers, kennels, and grooming shops.

In 1979 the name of the company was changed to Petco.

In 1980 Evans opened the first Petco store in California.

History

In 1988 Petco acquired two pet supply chains, WellPoint and Pet Department, which tripled the number of Petco stores from 40 to 130.

In 1994 the company went public, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol PETC. At this time Petco had 218 stores in 13 states.

In 2002 Petco had 600 stores in 48 states.

In 2005 the company expanded to Alaska, and four years later to Hawaii, giving Petco a presence in all 50 states.

In 2006 private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and Leonard Green & Partners took the company private.

Today Petco is #144 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies, has 22,000 employees, and had $3.15 billion in revenue in 2012.

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