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Cruise Planners Corporate Office

Cruise Planners was founded in 1994 by current CEO Michelle Fee and two other travel industry co-founders in Coral Springs, Florida. Fee had already worked as a successful travel agent for many years. She and the other co-founders wanted to share their knowledge with others.

Today, Cruise Planners is America’s largest home-based travel agent franchise. The company currently has 1,000 franchise owners. Agents work from home selling travel packages such as cruises, land-based vacations, travel insurance, car rentals, and equipment rentals.

The company offers in-house financing to cover most franchising costs as well as special incentives for veterans.

Cruise Planners is listed as #3 on the Entrepreneur Franchise 500 List of America’s Fastest Growing Franchises.

Cruise Planners

Cruise Planners was founded in 1994 by current CEO Michelle Fee and two other travel industry co-founders in Coral Springs, Florida. Fee had already worked as a successful travel agent for many years. She and the other co-founders wanted to share their knowledge with others.

Today, Cruise Planners is America’s largest home-based travel agent franchise. The company currently has 1,000 franchise owners. Agents work from home selling travel packages such as cruises, land-based vacations, travel insurance, car rentals, and equipment rentals.

The company offers in-house financing to cover most franchising costs as well as special incentives for veterans.

History

Cruise Planners is listed as #3 on the Entrepreneur Franchise 500 List of America’s Fastest Growing Franchises.

Team Extreme Marketing International Corporate Office

Team Extreme Marketing International is a majority stakeholder in a wide variety of niche e-commerce websites that sell everything from health and wellness to consumer electronics to agriculture.

The company also offers strategic planning, logistics, risk management, investments, and sales lead generation services to clients such as Livingsocial, Zulilly, Yellowpages.com, Who Fish, and Google Offers.

Team Extreme Marketing International is #39 in the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private U.S. Companies with a three-year growth rate of 6,369% and $6.8 million in revenue in 2013. The company is #5 in the Inc. list of Top Consumer Products & Services Companies and #1 in Top Maryland Companies.

Team Extreme Marketing International

Team Extreme Marketing International is a majority stakeholder in a wide variety of niche e-commerce websites that sell everything from health and wellness to consumer electronics to agriculture.

The company also offers strategic planning, logistics, risk management, investments, and sales lead generation services to clients such as Livingsocial, Zulilly, Yellowpages.com, Who Fish, and Google Offers.

Team Extreme Marketing International is #39 in the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private U.S. Companies with a three-year growth rate of 6,369% and $6.8 million in revenue in 2013. The company is #5 in the Inc. list of Top Consumer Products & Services Companies and #1 in Top Maryland Companies.

History

Fred’s Corporate Office

Fred’s opened its first discount store in Coldwater, Mississippi in 1947.

Today Fred’s serves customers with moderate or fixed incomes with stores in small and medium-sized towns across the Southeast and parts of the Midwest. The chain is made up of more than 700 stores in 15 states in total. About half of Fred’s stores have full-service pharmacies.

Stores carry more than 12,000 products, including brand-name, off-brand, and private label products including health and beauty, household goods, clothing, linens, food, and paper supplies.

Fred’s trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol FRED, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #989 in the Fortune 1000, has 5,245 employees, and had $1.97 billion in revenue in 2014.

 

Fred's

Fred’s opened its first discount store in Coldwater, Mississippi in 1947.

Today Fred’s serves customers with moderate or fixed incomes with stores in small and medium-sized towns across the Southeast and parts of the Midwest. The chain is made up of more than 700 stores in 15 states in total. About half of Fred’s stores have full-service pharmacies.

Stores carry more than 12,000 products, including brand-name, off-brand, and private label products including health and beauty, household goods, clothing, linens, food, and paper supplies.

History

Fred’s trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol FRED, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #989 in the Fortune 1000, has 5,245 employees, and had $1.97 billion in revenue in 2014.

 

ServiceMaster Corporate Office

Service Master logo

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.

Service Master truck

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.

Service Master Ad

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. 

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ServiceMaster

Service Master logo

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

Service Master truck

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.

Service Master Ad

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. 

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Wyndham Worldwide Corporate Office

In 2006 the Cendant Hospitality division was spun-off into the new company Wyndham Worldwide.

Wyndham Hotel Group owns and operates 7,400 franchised hotels in 66 countries under 15 brands including Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Ramada, and Super 8.

The company has a rentals and vacation exchange segment with relationships with 100,000 properties in 100 countries.

Wyndham’s revenues come from franchise and hotel management fees, timeshare sales, and membership dues.

Wyndham Worldwide trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WYN, is a member of the S&P 500, is #494 in the Fortune 500, has 32,800 employees, and had $5.24 billion in revenue in 2013.

Wyndham Worldwide

In 2006 the Cendant Hospitality division was spun-off into the new company Wyndham Worldwide.

Wyndham Hotel Group owns and operates 7,400 franchised hotels in 66 countries under 15 brands including Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Ramada, and Super 8.

The company has a rentals and vacation exchange segment with relationships with 100,000 properties in 100 countries.

History

Wyndham’s revenues come from franchise and hotel management fees, timeshare sales, and membership dues.

Wyndham Worldwide trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WYN, is a member of the S&P 500, is #494 in the Fortune 500, has 32,800 employees, and had $5.24 billion in revenue in 2013.