Hardware

Arista Networks Corporate Office

Arista Networks, originally named Arastra, was founded in 2004 by Andy Bechtolsheim & David Cheriton. This pair has occupied executive positions at Cisco Systems, Inc., leading the development of the Catalyst product line, along with Kenneth Duda who had been Granite Systems’ first employee. This trio developed Arastra (now Arista Networks).

Cheriton and Bechtolsheim financed the company themselves, after selling several other start-up companies in previous years.

The company provides cloud networking solutions in the US, Mexico, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. Arista’s cloud networking solutions consist of its extensible operating systems, a set of network applications, as well as gigabit Ethernet switching and routing platforms, including universal leaf, spline, and universal spine products.

In May 2008, Jayshree Ullal left Cisco after 15 years at the company and was appointed CEO of Arista in October 2008.

In June 2014, the company went public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol: ANET.

In December 2014, Cisco filed two lawsuits against Arista alleging extensive intellectual property infringement. The decision was appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. A ban on certain Arista products was reversed in 2016 following product changes. Two Cisco patents were overturned, and Cisco’s claim of damages was ruled against.

In 20147, the company had annual revenue of $1.6 billion and employed 1800 persons. Company headquarters are located in Santa Clara, California.

SHI International Corporate Office

SHI International has its roots back in 1989 when then husband and wife, Leo Koguan and Thai Lee, decided to purchase a small technology company that Koguan was working for called Leutek, whose software division was very small but had two very big customers, AT&T and IBM.

The pair purchased SHI (Software House International) for a mere $1 million, with the couple’s savings and a few small loans. Although the couple got divorced in 2002, they remain partners in the business.

SHI is one of the top 15 largest providers of IT solutions, with 3,500 employees across 30+ offices in around the world, including the United States, Canada, France, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. The company boasts numerous clients such as Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, as well as Boeing and Dun & Bradstreet.

The company had annual revenue in 2017 of $8.5 billion. This makes Lee’s company not only one of the largest woman-owned companies but a minority-owned company as well.

In 2016, the company acquired Eastridge, which is a Microsoft services provider.

SHI launched AWS Support Services for public cloud and forecasts, managing over $1 billion in customers’ Microsoft cloud assets in the first quarter of 2017.

In late 2017, SHI achieved Managed Service Provider Partner status from Amazon Web Services.

In addition to business products and services, the company has an active eCommerce site which offers hardware and software items to consumers, such as cable, cameras, monitors, computers, tablets, laptops, storage devices, printers and anti-virus software.

In an interview with Forbes, Lee says that she believes her company’s sales will reach $10 billion by 2019. The company has been doubling in size every year for the last 10 years, but Lee says she isn’t interested in taking on a partner, although that has been discussed.

SHI International has headquarters in Somerset, New Jersey and employs more than 3,500 persons.

Aubuchon Hardware Corporate Office

Aubuchon Hardware was founded in 1908 by William E. Aubuchon, a French Canadian immigrant with a 5th-grade education. Today, the company operates more than 109 stores throughout New England and the upper state of New York.

The company’s focus is on do-it-yourselfers and home repair, rather than new home builders and contractors. Unlike many other retailers, the company fared the recession of 2008 with a healthy bottom line, although the company did close one distribution center in August of 2017. The company is the oldest family-owned and operated hardware store in America.

Aubuchon Hardware is still owned and operated by the Aubuchon family, with grandson William E. Aubuchon III currently acting as CEO.

In March 2022, Aubuchon Hardware acquired Welch’s True Value Hardware for an undisclosed amount.

Aubuchon Hardware maintains a corporate office in Westminster, Massachusetts.

NewTown Hardware House Corporate Office

Newtown Hardware House was built in 1869 at 106 State Street. The building next door at 108 State Street was a dry goods store. Both stores were purchased and combined into Newtown Hardware House in 1908.

While an arson fire destroyed the store in 1899, it was rebuilt in the same place it stands today. Newtown Hardware House has been in operation since 1869 and is the oldest store in Pennsylvania. The company is just as famous for its facade and history as it is for the hardware, paint, and other items it sells within the 5,000 square foot business.

Newtown Hardware House was sold to William Newell in 2012. The corporate office still stands at the same address on State Street, where it has for more than 130 years.

Kingston Technology Company Corporate Office

Kingston Technology was founded in 1987 when there was a shortage of 1MB surface mount memory chips. An immigrant from Taiwan, John Tu, redesigned a SIMM card using older technology that solved the problem. Within two years, Kingston went from a two person operation, to being named on the Inc. 5000 list as the Fastest Growing Company in America.

Today, Kingston is an international company which designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of memory solutions, including flash drives, USB drives, digital audio players, DRAM, solid state cards, and SIM cards of all different types, including TIFF, mini, micro, and SD cards.

Kingston had annual revenue in 2015 of $6.5 billion and employs more than 3,000 persons. Forbes lists Kingston as #54 on their list of “The 500 Largest Private Companies in the U.S”.