Corporate Office

Hot Topic Corporate Office

Orv Madden, former executive of The Children’s Place, began selling T-shirts and assorted novelty items out of his garage in 1988. He opened his first retail location in 1989 in the Montclair Plaza, in Montclair, California. The company operates a chain of counterculture stores, usually located in shopping malls. The stores offer clothing, accessories, and licensed music.

At least 40% of Hot Topic’s sales come from rock band T-shirts. The company negotiates exclusive licensing arrangements with singers and bands, movie studios, and graphic artists.

Despite other retailers struggling with sales at mall and department stores, Hot Topic is expanding. It’s easy to see why. Step into any location and you will see what the hot trend is right now. The company currently has 670 locations, with pop-up locations during Halloween and Christmas.

Hot Topic was one of the first youth retailers to offer plus-sized clothing. This option was so popular that the company created a spin-off dedicated solely to plus size fashion called Torrid.

Headquarters for Hot Topic are located in Industry, California.

Hot Topic

At least 40% of Hot Topic’s sales come from rock band T-shirts. The company negotiates exclusive licensing arrangements with singers and bands, movie studios, and graphic artists.

History

Hot Topic was one of the first youth retailers to offer plus-sized clothing. This option was so popular that the company created a spin-off dedicated solely to plus size fashion called Torrid.

Headquarters for Hot Topic are located in Industry, California.

Convoy Network Corporate Office

Convoy is an American trucking software company that was co-founded by current CEO Dan Lewis and Grant Goodale, both former Amazon executives. This Seattle-based startup, called the Uber of trucking by some, uses a digital platform to match trucking companies with shippers. By using technology and data to solve problems of waste and inefficiency in the $800B trucking industry, which generates over 76M metric tons of wasted CO2 emissions from empty trucks, Convoy matches shippers with truckers.

On 25 July 2017, the company raised $62 million in funding. Other new investors included Cascade Investment and Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mosaic Ventures, former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, and Barry Diller. A current round of funding in December 2019, brought Convoy’s total amount raised to $80 million.

Another big plus is that Convoy pays drivers in 48 hours, not a week or every other week, but 48 hours.

The company has already received acquisition offers, but Goodale says that the company has a bigger vision right now, and they are going for it.

Convoy has the opportunity to transform the trucking industry. The company currently has about 100 routes, many of them concentrated around economic hubs such as Chicago, Michigan, and California.

Headquarters are located in Seattle, Washington.

Convoy

History

Another big plus is that Convoy pays drivers in 48 hours, not a week or every other week, but 48 hours.

The company has already received acquisition offers, but Goodale says that the company has a bigger vision right now, and they are going for it.

Convoy has the opportunity to transform the trucking industry. The company currently has about 100 routes, many of them concentrated around economic hubs such as Chicago, Michigan, and California.

Headquarters are located in Seattle, Washington.

Lawnstarter Corporate Office

Steve Corcoran and Ryan Farley operated a lawn care service while they were still in high school. The pair learned to code and had a fully operational site within 6 weeks. Armed with 100 customers, the pair moved to Austin, Texas, where they enlisted their third co-founder, Jonas Weigert, to improve upon the platform that they had built.

Lawnstarter, Inc. provides online landscaping services. The Company offers a wide range of lawn care services including mowing, aeration, pest control, irrigation, and tree care. Lawnstarter serves customers in most major cities across the US.

The lawn care market is massive, estimated at nearly $100 billion annually. The company raised 10.5 million in a growth fund operated by Edison Partners.

In November 2019, the company added pest control to its service lineup.

In early 2023, Bob Villa of This Old House listed Lawnstarter as one of the Best Lawn Care Services.

Headquarters for Lawstarter remain in Austin, Texas.

Lawnstarter

History

The lawn care market is massive, estimated at nearly $100 billion annually. The company raised 10.5 million in a growth fund operated by Edison Partners.

In November 2019, the company added pest control to its service lineup.

In early 2023, Bob Villa of This Old House listed Lawnstarter as one of the Best Lawn Care Services.

Headquarters for Lawstarter remain in Austin, Texas.

Coventry Direct Corporate Office

Alan Buerger is a former life insurance salesman, who founded the company in 1982 and helped create the secondary market for life insurance.

The company offers life settlement, which is the sale of a life insurance policy to a third party for a value in excess of the policy’s cash surrender value, but less than its face value, or death benefit. A policy owner receives a cash payment, while the purchaser of the policy assumes all future premium payments and receives the death benefit upon the death of the insured.

American International Group Inc, (AIG), said on February 16, 2016, that it had reached a settlement resolving a $2 billion lawsuit accusing Coventry Direct of overcharging its for life insurance policies acquired from elderly people.

Headquarters for Coventry Direct are located in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

Coventry Direct

Alan Buerger is a former life insurance salesman, who founded the company in 1982 and helped create the secondary market for life insurance.

History

Headquarters for Coventry Direct are located in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

Equinox Fitness Corporate Office

Equinox Fitness was founded in 1991 by the Errico family. In 2008, the company brought Pure Yoga from Hong Kong to the US. Pure Yoga operates separately from Equinox Fitness. Other subsidiaries include Equinox Fitness, Soul Cycle, Pure Yoga, Blink Fitness, and the Yorkville Club.

Equinox operates as a subsidiary of Related Companies, the largest real estate development and property management company in the US. Equinox is an upscale gym with 36 locations.

In 2016, the company announced that it was constructing 2 luxury hotels in New York and in Los Angeles. In August 2016, the billionaire owner of Equinox, Stephen Ross, hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump, which caused many to cancel their membership.

In March 2022, Equinox had two lawsuits filed against them for unpaid rent.

Headquarters for Equinox Fitness are still located in New York, New York.

Equinox Fitness

Equinox operates as a subsidiary of Related Companies, the largest real estate development and property management company in the US. Equinox is an upscale gym with 36 locations.

History

In March 2022, Equinox had two lawsuits filed against them for unpaid rent.

Headquarters for Equinox Fitness are still located in New York, New York.