Consumer Goods

Charo Chicken Corporate Office

Charo Chicken was founded in Huntington Beach, California, in 1984 by Moe Bonakdar. The company operates a chain of mostly franchised fast food chicken restaurants in Southern California.

The company is best known for their flame grilled chicken and Mexican style chicken dishes, such as chicken enchiladas and fajitas. Also on the menu are sandwiches and salads. CEO Raymond Perry states that the company uses no MSG, no lard, and no frozen chicken, only fresh, local birds in their meals. In 2006, the company had nearly 100 locations, however, after the recession of 2009, they were forced to close about half of their locations.

Charo Chicken has an overall rating on Yelp and Google of 4 stars. Company headquarters are still located in Huntington Beach California.

Charo Chicken

Charo Chicken was founded in Huntington Beach, California, in 1984 by Moe Bonakdar. The company operates a chain of mostly franchised fast food chicken restaurants in Southern California.

Charo Chicken has an overall rating on Yelp and Google of 4 stars. Company headquarters are still located in Huntington Beach California.

History

Mr. Chicken Corporate Office

Mr. Chicken was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1968 by Robert Simmens.The company operates a chain of franchised fast food chicken restaurants in Ohio.

The company offers the same fried chicken, coleslaw, as well as biscuits and gravy recipes that Robert Simmens used when the restaurant was founded. Michael Simmens, son and now CEO of the chain, says that trying new things did not bring them success, but rather, staying the same did. The chicken comes from local farms, is hand breaded and fried, and their famous coleslaw is hand chopped and mixed every day with fresh, local ingredient.

Mr. Chicken now has 8 locations in Ohio and employs approximately 200 persons. Headquarters are located in Willoughby, Ohio.

Mr. Chicken

Mr. Chicken was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1968 by Robert Simmens.The company operates a chain of franchised fast food chicken restaurants in Ohio.

Mr. Chicken now has 8 locations in Ohio and employs approximately 200 persons. Headquarters are located in Willoughby, Ohio.

History

Precision Overhead Garage Door Corporate Office

Precision Overhead Garage Door was founded in 1988 in Arizona as a small, family owned business. The company became incorporated in 1997 and began franchising in 1999. The company sells, installs, and repairs garage doors and door openers.

Today, the company is one of the best known names in garage door installation, repair, and automatic openers. There are currently 80 locations in 35 states. Entrepreneur Magazine Franchise 500 has listed the company since 2013. Since 2015, the company has offered in house financing through a partnership with Synchrony Financial.

Precision Overhead Garage Door currently has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. Company headquarters were moved from Arizona to Titusville, Florida, in the early 2000’s.

Precision Overhead Garage Doors

Precision Overhead Garage Door currently has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. Company headquarters were moved from Arizona to Titusville, Florida, in the early 2000’s.

History

Peloton Corporate Office

Peloton Cycles was founded in New York, New York, in 2012 by current CEO John Foley. The company was launched using a Kickstarter campaign. The company manufactures high tech exercise bikes, operates cycling studios, and sells apparel.

The company is almost like several companies in one; high tech cycling bikes, each equipped with a 22 inch monitor and wifi, which hooks up to either live or recorded cycling classes, along with 14 locations where bikes and sporting apparel can also be purchased. The company has sold more than 30,000 bikes in more than 22 countries. Foley states that he expects to surpass $10 billion in value by 2020. Clients pay $40 a month to join live classes or access the video library, which features class leaders who have competed in Tour de France competitions.

Stock prices for Peloton skyrocketed while others plummeted in February 2020 as the Coronavirus struck the USA.

Also in February 2020, Peloton offered free bikes to Flywheel customers after Flywheel discontinued all sales to at-home clients.

Peloton Cycles listed annual revenue in 2018 of $150 million. Company headquarters remain in New York City, near their Brooklyn cycling studio.

Peloton Cycle

History

Stock prices for Peloton skyrocketed while others plummeted in February 2020 as the Coronavirus struck the USA.

Also in February 2020, Peloton offered free bikes to Flywheel customers after Flywheel discontinued all sales to at-home clients.

Peloton Cycles listed annual revenue in 2018 of $150 million. Company headquarters remain in New York City, near their Brooklyn cycling studio.

Lego Corporate Office

The Lego Group, commonly known as Lego, was founded in 1932 by Ole Christiansen in Denmark. The Danish word Lego means play well. The company is the world’s largest toy maker (in terms of revenue), outselling even Mattel. In 2016, the company had annual revenue of $4.2 billion.

The company is known for making plastic “bricks” that stick together to build almost anything a child’s imagination can dream up. The original bricks were made of wood, but were switched to plastic after WWII. The company also has 4 amusement parks around the world, called LegoLand. One of these is located in Carlsbad, California. There is also a LegoLand Water Park located in the state of Florida.

Lego has admitted that they are aware of the problems their product causes in terms of environmental damage. The company has taken steps to reduce waste, recycle waste, and create their own source of electricity via wind turbines.

Lego