Corporate Office

Uncommon Goods Corporate Office

In 1999 David Bolotsky visited the Smithsonian Museum craft show and marveled at the unique, handmade goods on display. He believed that there was a great demand for such items while recognizing that many artists traveled great distances to sell their wares.

This led to the creation of Uncommon Goods. Bolotsky began by traveling and purchasing items he found at arts and craft shows, then listing and selling them. The demand became so great that he soon outgrew his apartment for business use.

The company offers environmentally sustainable, handmade or minimally machined items online. Uncommon Goods also publishes catalogs, often suggesting gift ideas or products that compliment each other.

Amazon is the company’s main competition, but Bolotsky believes that his superior selection of items, faster shipping, and customer service will win customer’s over. Amazon, as Bolotsky notes, does not do catalogs, something many people still find appealing.

Uncommon Goods is also known for being a “B” company, as well as paying higher than required wages. Employees who feel good about their jobs do better at their jobs is the motto at this ecommerce retailer.

Headquarters for Uncommon Goods is located in Brooklyn, New York.

Uncommon Goods

History

Headquarters for Uncommon Goods is located in Brooklyn, New York.

Cholita Linda Tacos Corporate Office

Vanessa Chavez grew up in Oakland, California, where eating with her multicultural family was a tradition that was not to be broken. After traveling for 7 years to her grandmother’s homeland of Peru and learning cooking skills from her Chinese/Peruvian mother and Cuban/Mexican father, Chavez knew she had to open her own restaurant.

The first location was at the local Jack London Square Farmer’s market, but business was so brisk that people were soon lining up around the block. Chavez added other locations at a variety of Farmer’s market’s in the area, but soon people were asking when they would open a more permanent restaurant. Their first brick and mortar restaurant is located in the Temescal area of Oakland, but Chavez says that soon they will need to open a second location.

In July 2014, San Francisco Magazine listed the company as having the Best Fish Tacos in the Bay area. The restaurant offers a wide range of interesting tacos and sandwiches, including her grandmothers pulled pork Peruvian tacos and sandwiches, along with fried snapper and plantains, fried tilapia tacos, and spit-roasted chicken.

Company headquarters are currently located in Oakland, California.

Cholita Linda Tacos

History

Company headquarters are currently located in Oakland, California.

Spirit Halloween Corporate Office

Spirit Halloween stores were founded by Joe Marver, who thought Halloween costumes should be for more than just kids. He opened his first pop-up, seasonal store in the Castro Valley Mall, in Castro City, California, in 1983. Within a decade, he had more than 60 pop-up locations across the country.

The company has an online site that offers an enormous number of costumes for children, pets, and adults, as well as both indoor and outdoor Halloween decor. They also rely on empty stores and pop-up locations in malls and other sites to sell their products. Most stores open sometime in mid-August and close a few days after Halloween ends.

Spencer Gifts purchased the company in 1999 and has grown the business substantially to more than 1,100 locations, making it the largest Halloween retailer in the nation. It is estimated that the company will earn $9 billion in sales in 2018.

A large sinkhole was found in one Kentucky location in 2019, forcing the store to close for a short time. It is unknown how the sinkhole occurred, but no one was injured.

The company states that top Halloween costumes for 2019 include Stranger Things, Fortnite, and Baby Shark Doo Doo.

Headquarters for Spirit Halloween are located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

Spirit Halloween

History

A large sinkhole was found in one Kentucky location in 2019, forcing the store to close for a short time. It is unknown how the sinkhole occurred, but no one was injured.

The company states that top Halloween costumes for 2019 include Stranger Things, Fortnite, and Baby Shark Doo Doo.

Headquarters for Spirit Halloween are located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

3 Day Blinds Corporate Office

3 Day Blinds is an innovative company, founded in 1978. Originally sold in retail locations, the company quickly discovered that rather than create new products and designs that customers might not purchase or that would go out of style, they could sell directly to the consumer from their own homes, creating custom window treatments.

Products that are ordered one day are manufactured the next either in Anaheim, California, or Ensenada, Mexico, which is near the border of California. Items are then shipped that day or the following day.

Forbes writes that “With new technology, 3 Day Blinds can track what keywords drove customers to make a phone call. For example, if a customer types a search into Google and gets the results for 3 Day Blinds, the website can create a unique phone number that lets the company know what keyword resulted in the call. Call center agents are also given a list of keywords related to the customers’ search that they can use to organically steer the conversation for best results”

The demand for window treatments is expected to explode in 2022.

Company headquarters are located in Irvine, California.

3 Day Blinds

History

The demand for window treatments is expected to explode in 2022.

Company headquarters are located in Irvine, California.

GoFundMe Corporate Office

GoFundMe was founded in 2010 by Brad Damphousse and Andrew Ballester. Originally called CreateaFund in 2008, the pair changed the name in 2010 after making numerous updates and changes to the site.

The company is a for-profit, crowdfunding platform, where people list a need or want, along with the dollar amount they wish to raise, and others can donate to their cause. Since its inception, the company has raised more than $5 billion for more than 2 million campaigns.

One of the stars of the television show Gilligan’s Island, Dawn Wells, recently accepted nearly $200,000 in a GoFundMe account started in her name to help her pay for medical bills.

GoFundMe originally charged a 5% fee, taken from the money donated, however, in 2017, the company said that it will now accept donations or “tips” from people who are donating, so the recipient can receive the entire amount.

Although medical problems top the GoFundMe list, due to the coronavirus crisis and quarantine, there have been multiple requests ranging from an ice cream shop employee in Mashpee, Massachusetts, who quit after being verbally abused by customers upset by a long wait, to a Utah mother who lost her daughters in a flash flood, to a Dallas hair salon owner who was jailed for not respecting the quarantine.

In January 2022, a group called Freedom Convoy 2022, collected funds to protest Canada’s requirement of vaccination against Covid for cross-border truck drivers. The company shut down the account, which had reached $10 million in donations, saying that it was not a verified charity and that GoFundMe would refund all donations within 10 days.

GoFundMe was founded in San Diego, later noting a PO Box in Redwood City, California, only as their “corporate office address.”

GoFundMe

GoFundMe was founded in 2010 by Brad Damphousse and Andrew Ballester. Originally called CreateaFund in 2008, the pair changed the name in 2010 after making numerous updates and changes to the site.

History

One of the stars of the television show Gilligan’s Island, Dawn Wells, recently accepted nearly $200,000 in a GoFundMe account started in her name to help her pay for medical bills.

GoFundMe was founded in San Diego, later noting a PO Box in Redwood City, California, only as their “corporate office address.”