Furniture

Pottery Barn Corporate Office

Pottery Barn was founded in 1949 by brothers, Morris and Paul Secon in Manhattan, New York. After Paul discovered three barns full of pottery “extras” and seconds from designer Glidden Parker, Secon purchased all three barns, including their contents. The name of the company comes from this humble beginning.

The company is an upscale home furnishing and housewares store that has headquarters in San Francisco, California. The company is a subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., who purchased the company in 1996.

Today, Pottery Barn no longer sells pottery and they have branched out to sell to more than just adults. Subsidiaries for the company include Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, Pottery Barn Bed & Bath, as well as their traditional catalog.

The company has locations throughout the US and 6 countries, including Mexico, Canada, and Australia. While the company has brick and mortar stores, they also offer online and catalog sales. The company catalog was first produced in 1987 and has remained extremely popular.

Pottery Barn differs from many other home furnishing stores as they offer free in-store decorator advice as well as in-home service. The company also offers delivery and assembly service of their items, which is referred to as “white glove service”.

In early 2017, the company introduced an augmented reality app for iOS mobile phones which allows users to virtually place Pottery Barn products into a room and save room design idea(s).

Pottery Barn

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In early 2017, the company introduced an augmented reality app for iOS mobile phones which allows users to virtually place Pottery Barn products into a room and save room design idea(s).

Zerbee Business Products Corporate Office

Zerbee Business Products was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. The company supplies businesses with more than 110,000 items, ranging from office furniture, medical and restaurant items, to pens and pencils. The company also offers break room and cleaning supplies, and ink or toner from brand name companies such as 3M and Avery.

Zerbee Business Products was listed as #154 on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies in America. The company had a 3 year growth rate of 2,550% and annual revenue in 2014 of $6.3 million. Zerbee Business Products has 6 employees, with 3 of these jobs being added over the past 3 years.

The company was also listed as #13 on the Inc. list of Top Retail Companies, #13 on their list of Top Minneapolis Companies, and Zerbee Business Products takes the #2 spot on the Inc. list of Top Minnesota Companies.

Zerbee Business Products

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Halls Corporate Office

Halls is the store division of Hallmark Cards. The Halls and Hallmark line was founded in 1916 by Joyce Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. Hall originally sold greeting cards from a display case in the lobby of a Kansas City store. The company soon moved to their own store and slowly began adding other merchandise to their line in addition to the very popular greeting cards.

Building a new store in the Crown Center began in 1973. Crown Center replaced the original downtown Halls store. Halls stores feature a wide variety of clothing, jewelry, wedding items, shoes, children and infants clothing, as well as china and crystal glassware.

In 2013, Halls consolidated their two stores into the new Crown Center. The new Crown Center officially opened September of 2014. Halls employs 10,500 full time employees and almost 20,000 part time employees. The company had annual revenue in 2015 of $3.7 billion.

Halls

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Curacao Corporate Office

Curacao was founded in Burbank, California, in 1978 by current CEO Jerry Azarkman. Originally named La Curacao, the company was popular among lower income Hispanics who were unable to buy on credit. Curacao allowed clients to purchase items with only down payment, then collect money from customers weekly.

Azarkman originally sold out of his home, as well as door to door sales. He spoke very little English and no Spanish at the time, but he learned quickly. Azarkman is known for saying that courtesy and respect are languages everyone understands. Curacao opened its first store in the Pico district of Los Angeles in 1983.

Today, Curacao has more than 11 stores throughout Southern California, two stores in Arizona, with plans to expand to Texas and Nevada. Curacao employs more than 2,180 persons and annual revenue in 2014 of $2.5 million.

Curacao

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Ikea Corporate Office

Ikea was founded in 1943 in Gothenburg, Sweden, by Ingvar Kamprad, who was 17 years old at the time. The name Ikea is actually an acronym from the initials of the name of the farm where he grew up and the name of the small town where he grew up.

The company designs and sells ready to assemble, simple furniture, kitchen cabinets, bedding, kitchen appliances, desks and chairs. Ikea is known for eco-friendly, innovative designs that make the most of space with minimalist lines. Ikea is one of the largest furniture manufacturers in the world.

The Ikea group is a complex structure of companies and consists of 476 stores in 47 countries. The company also sells almost everything found in their stores online. Ikea had $41.3 billion in sales worldwide in 2019 and employs more than 220,000 persons.

In a climate report dated 2021, Ikea, along with Amazon and Walmart were named the “dirtiest shippers” when it came to maritime emissions.

Ikea maintains a corporate office in the USA in Conshohocken, Pennslyvania.

Ikea

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In a climate report dated 2021, Ikea, along with Amazon and Walmart were named the “dirtiest shippers” when it came to maritime emissions.

Ikea maintains a corporate office in the USA in Conshohocken, Pennslyvania.