Ecommerce

Bennett Auto Supply Corporate Office

Bennett Auto Supply can trace its roots back to 1946 when Allen and Lettie Bennett opened a service station in Oakpark, Florida. The gas station also had a small grocery store and Allen used to repair bicycles and sell bicycle parts in the back.

By 1954, Bennett began selling tires and batteries to other service stations in the area. In 1957, the Bennett’s realized that auto parts were a major part of their overall business and decided to focus strictly on that. For better distribution, the company created a warehouse under the name Ben Clair, Inc.

The company expanded quickly in the 1960’s and is now the largest supplier of auto parts in southern Florida.

Bennett Auto Supply is still family owned and operated with Allen’s sons Barry and Harold as the executive team, as well as Allen’s grandchildren now working at the business.

The company has a 92,000 square foot warehouse and 34 locations throughout South Florida. Company headquarters are now located in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Bennett Auto Supply

History

The company expanded quickly in the 1960’s and is now the largest supplier of auto parts in southern Florida.

Bennett Auto Supply is still family owned and operated with Allen’s sons Barry and Harold as the executive team, as well as Allen’s grandchildren now working at the business.

The company has a 92,000 square foot warehouse and 34 locations throughout South Florida. Company headquarters are now located in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Chalk Couture Corporate Office

Chalk Couture was founded by Tara Roark in 2017. While attending design school, Roark purchased an overly large frame for her home. After deciding that she didn’t want a photo or painting in the frame, she purchased a large magnetic chalkboard. Roark became disappointed when she couldn’t find any magnetic letters or other designs for adults and decided to create her own.

The company designs and fabricates a chalk type of paint, along with reusable vinyl stickers so that clients can create their own artwork or buy artwork from other creators.

The vinyl transfers can be used on almost any surface, including glass, painted surfaces, metal, or whiteboards. The chalk goes on wet and dries hard, but can be removed with a wet rag or made permanent with a spray poly.

The company has expanded tremendously in the past year and expects to sign up as many as 500 new clients within the next 6 months. The corporate office is currently located in Midvale, Utah.

Chalk Couture

The company designs and fabricates a chalk type of paint, along with reusable vinyl stickers so that clients can create their own artwork or buy artwork from other creators.

History

The company has expanded tremendously in the past year and expects to sign up as many as 500 new clients within the next 6 months. The corporate office is currently located in Midvale, Utah.

LuxeYard Corporate Office

LuxeYard was founded by Amir Mireskandari & Khaled Alattar in Los Angeles, California. This pair of businessmen wanted to cash in on the flash sale industry. With the help of numerous investors, the company was incorporated in 2009 and went public on the NYSE in 2011.

What follows next depends on whom you talk to, however, the company appears to have been the target of what is known as a pump and dump scheme, where fake investors pump up the stock and then dump it when prices are higher. The company was forced to file for bankruptcy, however, they recently won a lawsuit against the parties they stated were involved in the scheme.

According to the lawsuit, these fraudulent trading activities date back as far as 2012, when certain defendants paid marketing firms millions of dollars to tout LuxeYard’s stock while orchestrating a scheme to sell their shares at the same time. Among those accused of illegally promoting the stock is NBT Equities Research, a company affiliated with Tobin Smith, a former Fox News commentator. In 2014, Mr. Smith agreed to pay more than $250,000 to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that he and his company fraudulently promoted a penny stock to investors.

Today, the company is still operating, but no longer offers flash sales. LuxeYard is now an online marketplace for home furnishings, home decor, and is best known for area rugs. Company headquarters remain in Los Angeles, California.

LuxeYard

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Chairish Corporate Office

Chairish is an online marketplace for unique and vintage furniture, art, and household decor. Founded in 2013 by husband and wife team Gregg and Anna Brockway, who were frustrated when attempting to sell furniture items that no longer fit into their new home.

Chairish offers over 220,000 curated items for sale from individuals, beloved vintage shops, and interior designers. The company accepts furniture and decor with listings that have a minimum price of $25. Listing items is free, and the seller keeps up to 80 percent of the final sale.

The company recently paired with eBay, allowing clients to list their items on both the Chairish site and eBay at the same time, simply by clicking a box on the mobile app.

Architectural Digest named Chairish the top new app for home decorating in 2014 and one of the best design and decorating apps in 2017. On March 9, 2017, the company launched an in-app augmented reality feature, which allows buyers to visualize items in the context of their own home. The Chairish app was named a 2017 Webby Honoree in the Mobile Site & Apps Category for Shopping and reached 1 million monthly visitors in late 2017.

Chairish was recently named #38 on Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360 List, recognizing the company as among the best entrepreneurial companies in the US.

Company headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. The company maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

Chairish

History

The company recently paired with eBay, allowing clients to list their items on both the Chairish site and eBay at the same time, simply by clicking a box on the mobile app.

Chairish was recently named #38 on Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360 List, recognizing the company as among the best entrepreneurial companies in the US.

Company headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. The company maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

One Kings Lane Corporate Office

One Kings Lane was founded in 2009 by Alison Pincus and Susan Feldman. This pair of friends started their own company working out of their own homes and investing less than $100,000 of their own money in their furniture and home decor company. Feldman’s high school aged daughter took most of the pictures for products offered.

The company sells mainly via their online site but recently opened a showroom in New York. One Kings Lane offered many items via a flash sale and at one time had as many as 10 million subscribers. After working for Ralph Lauren, Feldman held her first flash sale and was shocked at how much the company sold. She became convinced that she could do the same thing with home decor and furniture.

One Kings Lane does not make or design any of the items sold. The company has been so successful that similar businesses were flooding the market, such as Fab and Luxeyard. Feldman states that they want One Kings Lane to be the Tiffany of flash sale home decor and furniture sites, offering quality, not quantity.

At one time the company was estimated to be worth $900 million. Flash sales fell out of favor by the end of 2010 and Bed Bath and Beyond acquired the company in 2016 for $12 million. Today, the company operates as a subsidiary. Headquarters remain in San Francisco, California.

One Kings Lane