Consumer Goods

Choice Furniture Corporate Office

Choice Furniture was founded by Fadi Sahouri in Rockford, Illinois, in 2010. The company sells quality furniture for every room of the house, as well as patio and outdoor furniture.

Beginning with a small, single location, the company has grown to 2 large showrooms and announced in late October of 2018 that the company would remodel and take over the former Bergner’s furniture location in the CherryVale Mall. The new location will be three times the size of the location on State Street and will occupy both the first and second floors.

Choice Furniture has also begun a seasonal program called Furniture for Families in Need. Sahouri wanted to give back to the community by offering free furniture, including set up and delivery, for needy families. In 2016, the company gave furniture to the 20 families who applied. In 2017, there were more than 1,000 applications. Sahouri managed to narrow it down to 30 families and said that he might try to increase the number of families he can donate to in 2018.

Company headquarters for Choice Furniture is located in Rockford, Illinois.

Choice Furniture

Choice Furniture was founded by Fadi Sahouri in Rockford, Illinois, in 2010. The company sells quality furniture for every room of the house, as well as patio and outdoor furniture.

History

Company headquarters for Choice Furniture is located in Rockford, Illinois.

Detroit Bikes Corporate Office

Detroit Bikes was founded by current CEO Zak Pashak in 2011. After losing a bid for office in his native Canada, Pashak took a trip to Detroit, where he saw a future in bicycles for a very urban environment.

The company designs and builds bicycles in Detroit, Michigan, with parts made in Asia. While some companies are selling cheaper bikes, Pashak says that not everyone is interested in the cheapest possible bicycle they can buy. Pashak says that his bikes cost more, but they are better built because they are built in the USA.

The company also makes custom bikes for clients and Pashak says he makes about 150 bicycles every day. This CEO is perhaps one of the few who thinks that Trump’s tariffs on imported goods are a great idea, mainly because his bikes are American made.

The company uses an old warehouse for assembly and design. Headquarters are located in Detroit, Michigan. In 2016, the company lost $150,000 but Pashak believes that the bike industry as a whole is looking up.

Detroit Bikes

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Uncommon Goods Corporate Office

In 1999 David Bolotsky visited the Smithsonian Museum craft show and marveled at the unique, handmade goods on display. He believed that there was a great demand for such items while recognizing that many artists traveled great distances to sell their wares.

This led to the creation of Uncommon Goods. Bolotsky began by traveling and purchasing items he found at arts and craft shows, then listing and selling them. The demand became so great that he soon outgrew his apartment for business use.

The company offers environmentally sustainable, handmade or minimally machined items online. Uncommon Goods also publishes catalogs, often suggesting gift ideas or products that compliment each other.

Amazon is the company’s main competition, but Bolotsky believes that his superior selection of items, faster shipping, and customer service will win customer’s over. Amazon, as Bolotsky notes, does not do catalogs, something many people still find appealing.

Uncommon Goods is also known for being a “B” company, as well as paying higher than required wages. Employees who feel good about their jobs do better at their jobs is the motto at this ecommerce retailer.

Headquarters for Uncommon Goods is located in Brooklyn, New York.

Uncommon Goods

History

Headquarters for Uncommon Goods is located in Brooklyn, New York.

Spirit Halloween Corporate Office

Spirit Halloween stores were founded by Joe Marver, who thought Halloween costumes should be for more than just kids. He opened his first pop-up, seasonal store in the Castro Valley Mall, in Castro City, California, in 1983. Within a decade, he had more than 60 pop-up locations across the country.

The company has an online site that offers an enormous number of costumes for children, pets, and adults, as well as both indoor and outdoor Halloween decor. They also rely on empty stores and pop-up locations in malls and other sites to sell their products. Most stores open sometime in mid-August and close a few days after Halloween ends.

Spencer Gifts purchased the company in 1999 and has grown the business substantially to more than 1,100 locations, making it the largest Halloween retailer in the nation. It is estimated that the company will earn $9 billion in sales in 2018.

A large sinkhole was found in one Kentucky location in 2019, forcing the store to close for a short time. It is unknown how the sinkhole occurred, but no one was injured.

The company states that top Halloween costumes for 2019 include Stranger Things, Fortnite, and Baby Shark Doo Doo.

Headquarters for Spirit Halloween are located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

Spirit Halloween

History

A large sinkhole was found in one Kentucky location in 2019, forcing the store to close for a short time. It is unknown how the sinkhole occurred, but no one was injured.

The company states that top Halloween costumes for 2019 include Stranger Things, Fortnite, and Baby Shark Doo Doo.

Headquarters for Spirit Halloween are located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

3 Day Blinds Corporate Office

3 Day Blinds is an innovative company, founded in 1978. Originally sold in retail locations, the company quickly discovered that rather than create new products and designs that customers might not purchase or that would go out of style, they could sell directly to the consumer from their own homes, creating custom window treatments.

Products that are ordered one day are manufactured the next either in Anaheim, California, or Ensenada, Mexico, which is near the border of California. Items are then shipped that day or the following day.

Forbes writes that “With new technology, 3 Day Blinds can track what keywords drove customers to make a phone call. For example, if a customer types a search into Google and gets the results for 3 Day Blinds, the website can create a unique phone number that lets the company know what keyword resulted in the call. Call center agents are also given a list of keywords related to the customers’ search that they can use to organically steer the conversation for best results”

The demand for window treatments is expected to explode in 2022.

Company headquarters are located in Irvine, California.

3 Day Blinds

History

The demand for window treatments is expected to explode in 2022.

Company headquarters are located in Irvine, California.