Consumer Goods

Coty Corporate Office

Coty, Inc. was founded in Paris, France, in 1904 by Francois Coty. The company creates and sells a wide variety of beauty products, cosmetics, and fragrances, which are sold around the world.

While the company has been sold several times over the decades, it recently merged with P&G Speciality Beauty in 2016.

The company is known for its cooperation with designers and celebrities for the creation of fragrances. Some of its biggest brands are CoverGirl, Max Factor, Rimmel, Sally Hansen, Adidas, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss, Gucci, Burberry, and hair care products under the Wella Professionals label. Fragrances include Chloe, Davidoff, Marc Jacobs, Playboy, as well as OPI Beauty products.

The company went public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol COTY in 2013.

In November 2015, the company acquired Hypermarcas’ Beauty & Personal Care Business, providing Coty a strong position in Brazilian beauty & personal care market, the third-largest beauty market in the world.

In 2016, the company reported annual revenue of $9 billion.

Coty maintains corporate offices in New York, New York and employs more than 22,000 persons worldwide.

Coty

Coty, Inc. was founded in Paris, France, in 1904 by Francois Coty. The company creates and sells a wide variety of beauty products, cosmetics, and fragrances, which are sold around the world.

While the company has been sold several times over the decades, it recently merged with P&G Speciality Beauty in 2016.

History

The company went public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol COTY in 2013.

In 2016, the company reported annual revenue of $9 billion.

Coty maintains corporate offices in New York, New York and employs more than 22,000 persons worldwide.

Sally Hansen Corporate Office

Sally Hansen was an entrepreneurial woman ahead of her generation. Hansen moved to Hollywood in 1922 to pursue an acting career. She was quite popular in movies such as Beverly Smiles and Peggy Ann. She opened her own dance studio, but what she really wanted was to sell beauty products so that everyday women would feel beautiful.

Hansen began by writing advice and beauty tip columns for the Los Angeles Times newspaper. In 1940, Hansen took over her parents cosmetic firm and renamed it House of Hollywood. She owned the company independent of her husband, something which was rare at the time. Hansen returned to New York to open her cosmetic brand, starting with Hard as Nails, a nail polish designed to make growing longer nails easier.

Hansen sold her company in 1962 to Coty, Inc. for $11 million. Hansen passed away in 1963.

Sally Hansen’s nail polish remains one of the top brands of polish sold anywhere in the world. The company logo remains the same, Sally Hansen’s signature, nothing more.

In August 2020, Sally Hansen and parent company Coty teamed up with delivery service GoPuff to deliver beauty items to home or businesses within 30 minutes.

Sally Hansen

History

Hansen sold her company in 1962 to Coty, Inc. for $11 million. Hansen passed away in 1963.

Sally Hansen’s nail polish remains one of the top brands of polish sold anywhere in the world. The company logo remains the same, Sally Hansen’s signature, nothing more.

In August 2020, Sally Hansen and parent company Coty teamed up with delivery service GoPuff to deliver beauty items to home or businesses within 30 minutes.

LuxeYard Corporate Office

LuxeYard was founded by Amir Mireskandari & Khaled Alattar in Los Angeles, California. This pair of businessmen wanted to cash in on the flash sale industry. With the help of numerous investors, the company was incorporated in 2009 and went public on the NYSE in 2011.

What follows next depends on whom you talk to, however, the company appears to have been the target of what is known as a pump and dump scheme, where fake investors pump up the stock and then dump it when prices are higher. The company was forced to file for bankruptcy, however, they recently won a lawsuit against the parties they stated were involved in the scheme.

According to the lawsuit, these fraudulent trading activities date back as far as 2012, when certain defendants paid marketing firms millions of dollars to tout LuxeYard’s stock while orchestrating a scheme to sell their shares at the same time. Among those accused of illegally promoting the stock is NBT Equities Research, a company affiliated with Tobin Smith, a former Fox News commentator. In 2014, Mr. Smith agreed to pay more than $250,000 to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that he and his company fraudulently promoted a penny stock to investors.

Today, the company is still operating, but no longer offers flash sales. LuxeYard is now an online marketplace for home furnishings, home decor, and is best known for area rugs. Company headquarters remain in Los Angeles, California.

LuxeYard

History

Chairish Corporate Office

Chairish is an online marketplace for unique and vintage furniture, art, and household decor. Founded in 2013 by husband and wife team Gregg and Anna Brockway, who were frustrated when attempting to sell furniture items that no longer fit into their new home.

Chairish offers over 220,000 curated items for sale from individuals, beloved vintage shops, and interior designers. The company accepts furniture and decor with listings that have a minimum price of $25. Listing items is free, and the seller keeps up to 80 percent of the final sale.

The company recently paired with eBay, allowing clients to list their items on both the Chairish site and eBay at the same time, simply by clicking a box on the mobile app.

Architectural Digest named Chairish the top new app for home decorating in 2014 and one of the best design and decorating apps in 2017. On March 9, 2017, the company launched an in-app augmented reality feature, which allows buyers to visualize items in the context of their own home. The Chairish app was named a 2017 Webby Honoree in the Mobile Site & Apps Category for Shopping and reached 1 million monthly visitors in late 2017.

Chairish was recently named #38 on Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360 List, recognizing the company as among the best entrepreneurial companies in the US.

Company headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. The company maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

Chairish

History

The company recently paired with eBay, allowing clients to list their items on both the Chairish site and eBay at the same time, simply by clicking a box on the mobile app.

Chairish was recently named #38 on Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360 List, recognizing the company as among the best entrepreneurial companies in the US.

Company headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. The company maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

One Kings Lane Corporate Office

One Kings Lane was founded in 2009 by Alison Pincus and Susan Feldman. This pair of friends started their own company working out of their own homes and investing less than $100,000 of their own money in their furniture and home decor company. Feldman’s high school aged daughter took most of the pictures for products offered.

The company sells mainly via their online site but recently opened a showroom in New York. One Kings Lane offered many items via a flash sale and at one time had as many as 10 million subscribers. After working for Ralph Lauren, Feldman held her first flash sale and was shocked at how much the company sold. She became convinced that she could do the same thing with home decor and furniture.

One Kings Lane does not make or design any of the items sold. The company has been so successful that similar businesses were flooding the market, such as Fab and Luxeyard. Feldman states that they want One Kings Lane to be the Tiffany of flash sale home decor and furniture sites, offering quality, not quantity.

At one time the company was estimated to be worth $900 million. Flash sales fell out of favor by the end of 2010 and Bed Bath and Beyond acquired the company in 2016 for $12 million. Today, the company operates as a subsidiary. Headquarters remain in San Francisco, California.

One Kings Lane