Corporate Office

Rio Tinto Corporate Office

The Rio Tinto (Painted River in Spanish) has been mined for copper, silver, and gold since time began. Mining operations have been overseen by the Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians, Iberians, and the Moors. Mining was abandoned for a period and rediscovered by the Spaniards in 1556. The Spanish government took over the mines in 1724.

Spain decided to sell the mines in 1872 and held an auction, which was won by Hugh Matheson’s British firm Matheson and Company. Spain relinquished any claim to the mine and the name Rio Tinto was put on the final paperwork in March 1873.

The Rothchild family came into possession of the mine in the late 1880s. They began expanding mining operations substantially. The company began diversifying, acquiring and creating other mining sites in the mid-1920s, including a copper mine in Rhodesia (now Zambia).

Other mergers and acquisitions include U.S. Borax company in 1968, Kennecott Utah Copper, iron and uranium mine North Limited of Australia, and the Cordero Mining Company.

The company is split into four divisions;

Aluminum
Copper & Diamonds, including gold and silver
Energy & Minerals, including Borax, salt, and uranium
Iron ore

In 2011, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation and placed a $3 billion impairment charge against Rio Tinto regarding a coal deal they made in Mozambique. Rio acquired Riverdale Mining Ltd. The CEO was later forced to step down.

In early November 2016, Former mining minister of Guinea, Mahmoud Thiam, claimed that the head of Rio Tinto’s operation in Guinea offered him a bribe in 2010 in order to win back control of the Simandou mine and that his offer was supported by senior members of the company. The company is currently facing at least 4 class-action suits in the US demanding damages over the corruption allegations in Guinea.

The company has had record profits in 2018/2019 and is prepared to share more than $4 billion with shareholders. Rio Tinto is a duel-listed company that is traded on both the London Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange. Additionally, American Depositary Shares of Rio Tinto’s British branch are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, giving its listings on a total of 3 major stock exchanges.

Rio Tinto is the world’s largest mining and metal company, with operations on six continents, with its main focus being Australia and Canada.

Rio Tinto

History

Other mergers and acquisitions include U.S. Borax company in 1968, Kennecott Utah Copper, iron and uranium mine North Limited of Australia, and the Cordero Mining Company.

The company is split into four divisions;

Aluminum
Copper & Diamonds, including gold and silver
Energy & Minerals, including Borax, salt, and uranium
Iron ore

Rio Tinto is the world’s largest mining and metal company, with operations on six continents, with its main focus being Australia and Canada.

SoulCycle Corporate Office

Ruth Zukerman began teaching spin classes in 1996. She introduced her friends, Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice, to the classes and to one another. This trio of friends decided to open their own gym featuring nothing but spin classes. Pooling their cash, their first gym was on the Upper Westside of Manhattan, New York.

Villency Design Group designed the SoulCycle stationary bicycle using a “split seat” to relieve the discomfort caused by conventional bike seats. Equinox Fitness, a competing cycling gym, acquired a majority stake in the company in 2011.

Zukerman left the company in 2009, with Rice and Cutler selling their shares to Equinox in 2016 and stepping down from the company. The company has plans to go public but these plans appear to be stalled as of this time.

SoulCycle has more than 100 locations in 15 US states, Canada, and plans to open a new location in London in 2019. The company also launched its own channel on Sirius XM and Pandora, playing the music they use during the various spin classes.

In August 2019, Related Companies, owner of Equinox and SoulCycle, hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s reelection, leaving many cyclists outraged and calling for a boycott. In response, the company immediately made a plan for “free rides” to raise money for the charity of the instructor’s choice. Numerous other cycling gyms and gyms offering cycling classes, such as Hollywood Fitness Studios and Town Sports International Gym, offered free classes and discount memberships for those who want to boycott SoulCycle and Equinox.

To turn things around, the company put a new CEO in place in December 2020.

The corporate office for SoulCycle remains in New York City, New York.

SoulCycle

History

To turn things around, the company put a new CEO in place in December 2020.

The corporate office for SoulCycle remains in New York City, New York.

Blue Bayou Water Park/Dixie Landin Corporate Office

In 1960, Sam Haynes Sr. opened a small amusement park named Fun Fair Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Best known for the rollercoaster The Wild Mouse and a mascot chimp named Candi, the park lost its small-town charm and closed in 1999.

However, Sam Haynes, Jr. moved a great deal of the park, including Candi, to a new location and started fresh with an amusement park named Dixie Landin’. Attached to Dixie Landin is the Blue Bayou Water Park.

Blue Bayou Water Park and Dixie Landin are open May thru September. The parks have 25 full-time employees that work year-round, but that number swells to 700 during the summer months, with most of the seasonal employees being local teens. Blue Bayou has 20 attractions and Dixie Landin 26, including 3 rollercoasters.

In 2011, both parks were fined more than $25,000 by the Department of Labor, mostly for violations involving the hiring of minors.

A woman was killed in 2010 after falling off the rollercoaster “Xtreme”, which has since been demolished.

Candi the chimp was on display in a cage most days at Dixie Landin’, smoking cigarettes and drinking sodas that park-goers would toss to her. The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit in 2015 saying that Candi was being treated inhumanely and that the 50-year-old chimp should live out her days in a sanctuary. The Haynes family said they had tried to have Candi join a group of chimps at a local zoo, but she continually escaped and taught the other chimps how to escape as well.

Candi was well-known for her numerous escapes and apparently died suddenly in April 2017.

Hurricane Gustav caused some damage to both parks in 2008, but the park has just closed for the season and all repairs were done in time for the parks to reopen in 2009.

Blue Bayou Water Park and Dixie Landin are still owned and operated by the Haynes family. Headquarters remain in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Blue Bayou Water Park

History

In 2011, both parks were fined more than $25,000 by the Department of Labor, mostly for violations involving the hiring of minors.

A woman was killed in 2010 after falling off the rollercoaster “Xtreme”, which has since been demolished.

Candi was well-known for her numerous escapes and apparently died suddenly in April 2017.

Hurricane Gustav caused some damage to both parks in 2008, but the park has just closed for the season and all repairs were done in time for the parks to reopen in 2009.

Blue Bayou Water Park and Dixie Landin are still owned and operated by the Haynes family. Headquarters remain in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Power Corporation of Canada Corporate Office

Stockbrokers Arthur Nesbitt and Peter Thompson formed their own company in 1925 to manage their own substantial investments in public utility companies. In the late 1930s, the company acquired a controlling interest in Bathurst Pulp and Paper Company and then in 1938, Canadian Oil Companies Ltd., selling the latter to Shell Oil in 1962.

Arthur J. Nesbitt was succeeded as president by his son Arthur D. Nesbitt. The Nesbitt family sold most their interest in Power Corporation to the Paul Desmarais group in 1968 and by 1970 no longer had any involvement in the company. Paul Desmarais began implementing an investment philosophy which continues today: responsible management, prudent approach to risk, and long-term value creation.

1984 saw the creation of diversified management and holding company, Power Financial Corporation. Global expansion for the group began in the 1970s in Europe and in the 1990s in Asia. The group’s involvement in the finance sector continued in 2000 with the acquisition of Canada Life, Mackenzie Financial and Putnam Investments.

Today, Power Corporation owns 65.5% of Power Financial Corporation.

Originally established as an electric utility holding company, the company has become an international conglomerate with major interests in the finance industry, as well as interests in other business sectors such as sustainable and renewable energy. This became evident as the company took a controlling interest in August 2019 in US solar company Nautilus Solar.

Company headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Power Corporation of Canada

History

Today, Power Corporation owns 65.5% of Power Financial Corporation.

Company headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Elle Corporate Office

Elle was founded in Paris by Helene Gordon-Lazareff in the immediate aftermath of World War II. First sold as a supplemental insert to the magazine France-Soir, which was edited at the time by Helene’s husband, Pierre Lazareff. Hélène Gordon-Lazareff returned to Paris after a visit to New York City to create a unique publication that grappled with the many forces shaping the lives of women in France in 1945. Women won the right to vote in France in 1944, and Elle dived immediately into long-form “newspaper-like” features on women’s role in national politics and the growing feminist movement.

In addition to articles regarding women’s issues, the magazine featured fashion icons and celebrities such as Christian Dior, Bridgette Bardo, and Greta Garbo. By the 1960s, the magazine had 800,000 subscribers. International publishing in other languages began in 1969, with publishing in the US in 1985.

Today, Elle is a worldwide lifestyle magazine that focuses on fashion, beauty, health, celebrities, and entertainment. Elle is owned by the Lagardere Group of France. It is published in the U.S. and the UK by Hearst Magazine, which also sells furniture and decor items under the Elle name. Elle is the world’s largest fashion magazine, with more than 46 international editions sold in 60 countries.

In 2011, Hearst Corporation reached a deal with Lagardereto purchase the rights to publish Elle Magazine in fifteen countries including the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Ukraine. Lagardére, which has struggled in the international market since the 2000s, retained the rights to the French edition and would collect royalties from the international editions.

Headquarters for the magazine are located in New York, New York.

Elle

History

Headquarters for the magazine are located in New York, New York.