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McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants Corporate Office

McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants was founded in 1970 when Bill McCormick purchased Jake’s Famous Crawfish, a 100-year-old restaurant in Portland, Oregon. He hired Douglas Schmick as the manager.

McCormick & Schmick formed Traditional Concepts in 1974. The first McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant opened in 1979 in downtown Portland.

The company went public in 2004, trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol MSSR. By 2009 the chain had almost 100 restaurants and catering locations in the U.S. and Canada.

In 2011 the company’s biggest shareholder, Tilman J. Fertitta, made a bid to take the company private. In 2012 he sold McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants to Landry’s Restaurants, which is the owner of several national chain restaurants including Bubba Gump Shrimp and The Rainforest Cafe.

Despite the pandemic of 2020, McCormick and Schmick’s has stayed in business through delivery and to-go orders, including full holiday Christmas meals.

The company maintains a corporate office in Houston, Texas.

McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants

History

McCormick & Schmick formed Traditional Concepts in 1974. The first McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant opened in 1979 in downtown Portland.

The company went public in 2004, trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol MSSR. By 2009 the chain had almost 100 restaurants and catering locations in the U.S. and Canada.

Despite the pandemic of 2020, McCormick and Schmick’s has stayed in business through delivery and to-go orders, including full holiday Christmas meals.

The company maintains a corporate office in Houston, Texas.

ServiceMaster Corporate Office

ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. provides services such as termite and pest control, home warranties, janitorial services, home cleaning, and home inspections, among others.

The company was founded in 1929 by minor-league baseball player Marion E. Wade as a moth-proofing company, expanding in 1952 to franchised carpet cleaning.

In the 1980s ServiceMaster expanded and formed a network of branch and franchise-based businesses such as Terminix, TruGreen, Furniture Medic, and Merry Maids. TruGreen was acquired by Scotts Miracle-Gro in 2016.

Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice Inc. led acquired the company in 2007 and took it private. ServiceMaster went public in 2014.

Today the company has more than 7,000 company-owned, franchised, and licensed locations.

ServiceMaster moved their headquarters location from East Memphis, Tennessee, to Peabody Place in downtown Memphis in 2016.

ServiceMaster Global Holdings trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SERV, has 13,000 employees, and had $2.41 billion in revenue in 2013. Company stock has been listed by several financial investment firms as being a “buy” in June 2019.

ServiceMaster

ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. provides services such as termite and pest control, home warranties, janitorial services, home cleaning, and home inspections, among others.

The company was founded in 1929 by minor-league baseball player Marion E. Wade as a moth-proofing company, expanding in 1952 to franchised carpet cleaning.

History

Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice Inc. led acquired the company in 2007 and took it private. ServiceMaster went public in 2014.

Today the company has more than 7,000 company-owned, franchised, and licensed locations.

ServiceMaster moved their headquarters location from East Memphis, Tennessee, to Peabody Place in downtown Memphis in 2016.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporate Office

Cognizant Technology Solutions has its roots in the 1994 founding of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (DBSS), which was a joint venture between Dun & Bradstreet and Satyam Computers. The joint venture was an in-house technology unit that focused on large-scale IT projects for Dun & Bradstreet.

In 1996 Dun & Bradstreet spun-off several of its divisions into independent companies, including DBSS. In 1997 DBSS was renamed Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Today the company provides business intelligence, data warehousing, applications maintenance services, software and systems development and integration, and re-engineering services to customers in the manufacturing, retail, financial services, health care, and logistic industries.

Most of Cognizant’s employees and software development centers are located in India.

Cognizant Technology Solutions is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CTSH, is a member of the S&P 500, is #308 in the Fortune 500, is #348 in the FT Global, has 199,700 employees, and had $9.88 billion in revenue in 2013.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

In 1996 Dun & Bradstreet spun-off several of its divisions into independent companies, including DBSS. In 1997 DBSS was renamed Cognizant Technology Solutions.

History

Most of Cognizant’s employees and software development centers are located in India.

Juniper Networks Corporate Office

Juniper Networks is a manufacturer of networking equipment.

The company was founded by Pradeep Sindhu to supply routers to support the internet, which was just emerging at the time. Sindhu was a scientist at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.

Original funding for the company came from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and further funding came from AT&T Corporation and Anschutz Corporation.

Today Juniper Networks designs and sells network infrastructure equipment used to manage applications and services across networks. Products include software, data center, firewall devices, routers, and intrusion prevention systems.

The company’s clients include IBM, Nokia Siemens, and Ericsson.

Juniper Networks is traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol JNPR, is a member of the S&P 500, is #523 in the Fortune 1000, has 9,483 employees, and had $4.80 billion in revenue in 2013.

Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is a manufacturer of networking equipment.

The company was founded by Pradeep Sindhu to supply routers to support the internet, which was just emerging at the time. Sindhu was a scientist at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.

Original funding for the company came from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and further funding came from AT&T Corporation and Anschutz Corporation.

History

The company’s clients include IBM, Nokia Siemens, and Ericsson.

NVIDIA Corporation Corporate Office

NVIDIA Corporation was founded by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priemin 1993 with venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital.

The company’s first product was GeForce 256, the first GPU – Graphics Processing Unit – defined as a 3D game accelerator. Based on the success of this product, NVIDIA won the contract to develop graphics for Microsoft’s Xbox, which earned the company a $200 million advance.

Today NVIDIA Corporation’s products generate 2D and 3D graphics used in PCs, video game consoles, and mobile devices. The company has 65% market share for GPUs used in digital games. It’s major brand is Tegra.

NVIDIA Corporation trades publicly on the NASDQ under the ticker symbol NVDA, is a member of the S&P 500, is #589 in the Fortune 1000, has 8,808 employees, and had $4.58 billion in revenue in 2013.

NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA Corporation was founded by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priemin 1993 with venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital.

History

NVIDIA Corporation trades publicly on the NASDQ under the ticker symbol NVDA, is a member of the S&P 500, is #589 in the Fortune 1000, has 8,808 employees, and had $4.58 billion in revenue in 2013.