Corporate Office

Raleigh Bicycles Corporate Office

Founded in 1885, Raleigh Bicycles got its start when Richard Woodhead and French immigrant Paul Eugene Louis Angois, set up a small bicycle shop on Raleigh Street in Nottingham, UK. The company was incorporated in 1888 when the shop was acquired by Frank Bowden. By 1913, Raleigh was the biggest bicycle company in the world.

Raleigh is the oldest bicycle brand in the world. From 1921 through 1935, the company also produced motorcycles and three-wheeled vehicles.

After WWII, the company was best known for making lightweight bicycles that were superior to other brands. The Raleigh Sports Roadster was exported around the world.

By 2003, assembly of bicycles had ended in the UK , and bicycles were to come “from Vietnam and other centres of ‘low-cost, high-quality’ production.” The final assembly takes place in Germany.

In April 2012, Raleigh UK, Canada and USA were acquired by a separate Dutch group, Accell for $100 million.

The corporate office for Raleigh Bicycles in the USA is located in Kent, Washington.

Raleigh Bicycles

Raleigh is the oldest bicycle brand in the world. From 1921 through 1935, the company also produced motorcycles and three-wheeled vehicles.

History

After WWII, the company was best known for making lightweight bicycles that were superior to other brands. The Raleigh Sports Roadster was exported around the world.

In April 2012, Raleigh UK, Canada and USA were acquired by a separate Dutch group, Accell for $100 million.

The corporate office for Raleigh Bicycles in the USA is located in Kent, Washington.

Extend Health/Via Benefits Corporate Office

Founded in 2002 originally under the name Acclaris, the company was the first Medicare Exchange when they offered Chrysler retirees to move from an expensive, private health care insurance company into the more competitive Medicare market, where plans could be individualized.

Extend Health was acquired in 2012 by Willis Towers Watson for $435 million. While the name was temporarily changed to Exchange Solutions, then to OneExchange, it was changed once again in 2017 to Via Benefits. This change can be seen on the Extend Health website address.

The company received a patent for its call center technology, which shortens call wait times by matching the caller’s needs with a representative best suited to help the caller.

Extend Health/Via Benefits is the largest healthcare exchange in the US, with approximately 1.8 million subscribers. Consumers can choose from a broad range of the best coverage options available to them, receive comprehensive information that is clear and unbiased. The company is a member in good standing of the National Council on Aging, NCOA.

Extend Health/Via Benefits currently has headquarters in San Mateo, California.

Extend Health

History

The company received a patent for its call center technology, which shortens call wait times by matching the caller’s needs with a representative best suited to help the caller.

Extend Health/Via Benefits currently has headquarters in San Mateo, California.

Form Beauty Corporate Office

After being let go from his job at a Wall Street firm, Tristan Walker decided to take the big leap and change his life completely. He decided to change how people of color, especially African Americans, buy personal care products. He founded Form Beauty in late 2013.

In a Bloomberg interview, Tristan said “We make health and beauty simple for people of color. I joke about going to the ethnic shelf in aisle 40 of CVS, reaching to the bottom for a package with a photo of a 70-year-old bald black guy in a towel drinking a cognac while petting a tiger. That’s an experience that should not exist and something that few people in Silicon Valley understand.”

Walker says that while retail must change the way it does business, it’s not dead yet. Retail is in his plan of “what’s next.”

Company headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California.

Form Beauty

History

Walker says that while retail must change the way it does business, it’s not dead yet. Retail is in his plan of “what’s next.”

Company headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California.

Ancestry.Com Corporate Office

In 1990, two Brigham Young University students began tracking family tree information and making it available to other LDS members via floppy discs. By 1994, their original company, Infobases, was being sold on CD’s out of their cars. In 1995, these CD’s sold for $300. Ancestry.com took the business online in 1996.

While the company had been offering free access to Ancestry.com at LDS Family History Centers, that service was terminated on March 17, 2007, because the company and the LDS Church were unable to reach a mutually agreeable licensing agreement. In 2010, Ancestry restored access to its site at Family History Centers.

Today, Ancestry.Com is the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, with revenue in 2015 of $683.1 million. As of late 2018, the company claims to provide access to approximately 10 billion historical records, have 3 million paying subscribers and to have sold at least 14 million DNA kits.

In 2012, the company was acquired by private equity group Permira Advisors for $1.6 billion.

Clients provide a sample of their DNA to the company for analysis. The company then uses DNA sequences to infer family relationships with other Ancestry DNA users and to provide what it calls an “ethnicity estimate”. Some people experience unexpected surprises, such as author Dani Shapiro, who found that the man she believed was her father actually wasn’t, and a Wisconsin man who discovered that he had 5 siblings, whom his mother had given up for adoption, he was unaware of.

In 2015, Ancestry partnered with Calico, which is a subsidiary of Google, to focus on longevity research and therapeutics, in an effort to investigate if there is human heredity to lifespan.

Headquarters for Ancestry.Com is located in Lehi, Utah.

Ancestry.Com

History

In 2012, the company was acquired by private equity group Permira Advisors for $1.6 billion.

In 2015, Ancestry partnered with Calico, which is a subsidiary of Google, to focus on longevity research and therapeutics, in an effort to investigate if there is human heredity to lifespan.

Headquarters for Ancestry.Com is located in Lehi, Utah.

Spin Scooters Corporate Office

Founded in 2016 by Derrick Ko, Euwyn Poon, and Zaizhuang Cheng, Spin began by renting dockless bicycles in the Seattle, Washington, area. The company logged more than 5,000 rides in their first week, far exceeding other bike rental companies. The company has evolved to include electric scooters.

Spin began offering scooter rentals/sharing in San Francisco, California, in early 2018 and in Texas in March 2017.

San Francisco Public Works confiscated dozens of the dockless bicycles after pedestrians stated that the bikes were blocking sidewalks and creating a hazard.

Ford Motor Company acquired the company in November of 2018 for an undisclosed sum. The company was worth approximately $90 billion at the time of sale. Ford says that they intend to greatly expand the company, which currently operates in 24 cities across the US.

In July 2021, the city of Seattle, Washington, gave Spin a permit to operate their scooters on city streets.

Headquarters for Spin are currently located in San Francisco, California. It is unknown if Ford will move or integrate the corporate office for Spin with their office in Detroit, Michigan.

Spin Scooters

Spin began offering scooter rentals/sharing in San Francisco, California, in early 2018 and in Texas in March 2017.

History

San Francisco Public Works confiscated dozens of the dockless bicycles after pedestrians stated that the bikes were blocking sidewalks and creating a hazard.

In July 2021, the city of Seattle, Washington, gave Spin a permit to operate their scooters on city streets.

Headquarters for Spin are currently located in San Francisco, California. It is unknown if Ford will move or integrate the corporate office for Spin with their office in Detroit, Michigan.