Ecommerce

Costa Del Mar Corporate Office

Costa Del Mar was founded in 1983 in Daytona Beach, Florida, by Ray Ferguson. Ferguson designed a pair of polarized glasses that he sold to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The NOAA found them extremely useful and later endorsed these glasses.

The company designs and manufactures sunglasses and casual apparel. Although the company states that all their sunglasses are made in the USA, this has been criticized as being misleading. Costa Del Mar sunglass frames are made in either Taiwan, China, Japan or Mauritius, depending on frame style. Sunglasses are finished with lenses at the Daytona Beach facility. Costa Del Mar is perhaps best known for their lifetime warranty on defects, as well as their repairs, which are performed in Florida.

Costa Del Mar sells their products via their eCommerce site, as well as via authorized distributors, such as Amazon. The company operates as a subsidiary of Essilor, Inc.

In 2013, the company had annual revenue of $100 million. Headquarters for Costa Del Mar are located in Daytona Beach, Florida. In April 2018, the company announced that it was planning on building a new headquarters building and that it would remain in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Costa Del Mar

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Costa Del Mar sells their products via their eCommerce site, as well as via authorized distributors, such as Amazon. The company operates as a subsidiary of Essilor, Inc.

Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Corporate Office

Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee was founded in 2005 by current CEO Jonathan Golden. After a trip to Rwanda, Golden realized that the people there had incredibly good coffee, but were forced to accept very little money for their product due to infighting and a lack of distribution.

The company operates coffee shops, as well as selling coffee online, from the coffee farmers of Rwanda. Farmers are paid a living wage for their product and the Rwandan community benefits from Community Trade. The company sells genuine Arabic coffee and other items, including T-shirts, coffee mugs, bumper stickers, and coffee makers via their eCommerce site, as well as at their coffee houses.

Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee currently has 12 locations in 5 states. The company offers also offers franchising. Company headquarters are in Roswell, Georgia.

Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee

Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee currently has 12 locations in 5 states. The company offers also offers franchising. Company headquarters are in Roswell, Georgia.

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CarFax Corporate Office

CarFax was founded in 1984 in Columbia, Missouri, by Ewin Barnett III and Robert Daniel Clark. At the time, Barnett was working with the Missouri Automobile Dealers Association to try to fight odometer fraud on used cars. He collected data on approximately 10,000 vehicles and provided this information to automotive sellers.

Today, CarFax provides information on vehicles to both dealers and individuals, via their website or mobile phone app, with a database of more than 15 billion vehicles in the US and 10 providences in Canada. The company provides a wide range of information, including odometer readings, accidents, recall information, original owner, date sold, location(s) where vehicles were bought and sold, as well as repairs done by dealers.

In 1999, the company became a subsidiary of Information Technology Services. The company recently introduced an app where customers can keep track of their vehicle maintenance, as well as be reminded when maintenance needs to be performed.

During the coronavirus crisis of 2020, car owners were driving less, but also neglecting car maintenance, according to CarFax.

CarFax

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During the coronavirus crisis of 2020, car owners were driving less, but also neglecting car maintenance, according to CarFax.

1 800 Pet Meds Corporate Office

1 800 Pet Meds, sometimes called Pet Meds or PetMed Express, was founded in 1996 in Florida by former anesthesiologist Marc Puleo. The company is an online and catalog retailer for prescription and OTC pet medications and other pet items.

The company is publicly traded on the NASDQ under the ticker symbol: PETS. While Pet Meds does compete with veteranirans , who often sell these same items at markup, the company must still have a vet’s prescription to sell certain items. The company has refused to name where they purchase their items from, frustrating many vet’s who cannot match their price.

1 800 Pet Meds is authorized to sell in all 50 US states and is Vet-VIPPS accredited by the NABP (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy). Forbes magazine picked Pet Meds as 4th on their list of 200 Best Small Business Companies in 2006 and 2007.

1 800 Pet Meds

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Mouser Electronics Corporate Office

Mouser Electronics was founded in 1964 in El Cajon, California, by Jerry Mouser, a physics teacher who was frustrated that electrical components he needed were hard to find. Mouser moved the company to Mansfield, Texas, in 1983.

The company is an eCommerce and catalog distributor of electrical components. In January of 2000, the company became a subsidiary of TTI, Inc. Warren Buffet, owner of Berkshire Hathaway, purchased a majority portion of TTI in 2007. That same year, the company expanded both its warehouse and its office space by more than 231,000 square feet.

Mouser Electronics has an extensive website, including products from more than 5,000 manufacturers, along with access to approximately 5 million data sheets. The company has received numerous awards, including one in 2014 from connector manufacturer Harting, for New Customer Growth, as well as New Product Growth.

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