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Bob Barker Company Corporate Office

A former newspaper editor from Charlotte, North Carolina, Robert Barker, began a small company selling supplies to restaurants and cafeterias in 1972. Sometime during the 1980s, the company focus changed to law enforcement and prison supplies.

The company has been awarded at least $13 million in federal prison system contracts in the United States since 1995, representing about 100 federal prisons across the country. Bob Barker Company began a $4.15 million distribution center expansion in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina in 2016.

While there are urban legends suggesting that the company belongs to game show host of the same name, Bob Barker, there is no relationship between the two.

The company received attention after a report stated that garments and shoes were being made under sweat-shop like conditions. The company denied the report.

To help former inmates readjust to civilian life, the company also operates a non-profit sector, The Bob Barker Foundation.

The company also received unwanted attention regarding the supplies offered at several Texas migrant facilities in the summer of 2019.

Headquarters for Bob Barker Company remain in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.

Bob Barker Company

History

While there are urban legends suggesting that the company belongs to game show host of the same name, Bob Barker, there is no relationship between the two.

The company received attention after a report stated that garments and shoes were being made under sweat-shop like conditions. The company denied the report.

To help former inmates readjust to civilian life, the company also operates a non-profit sector, The Bob Barker Foundation.

The company also received unwanted attention regarding the supplies offered at several Texas migrant facilities in the summer of 2019.

Headquarters for Bob Barker Company remain in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.

Tello Mobile Corporate Office

Tello was founded in 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia, a subsidiary of KeepCalling.Net, which was founded in 2002 by Florin Miron. The company is an MVNO, which is a wireless company that does not own the wireless network, but contracts with a network, who will provide the equipment for service. This allows companies such as Tello to provide bulk rate prices, resulting in cheaper cell phone bills.

Tello has no monthly fees and no contracts. Calls and texts can be made to other countries. Plans run from as little as $10 a month for 1 GB of data, unlimited texting and unlimited phone minutes. The company uses the Sprint network, which covers nearly the entire United States.

Tello has been featured on numerous sites, including TomsGuide and PCMag.

Company headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tello Mobile

History

Tello has been featured on numerous sites, including TomsGuide and PCMag.

Company headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia.

TracFone Wireless Corporate Office

TracFone has its roots back in 1996 when David Topp and F.J. Pollack began one of the first prepaid wireless companies in Miami, Florida. Originally named Topp Wireless, in February 1999, Topp received a major infusion of capital from Telefonos de Mexico, a.k.a. TelMex, Mexico’s largest telephone company. TelMex paid $57.5 million for a 55 percent controlling interest in the company. In 2000, the name was changed to TracFone.

Originally, the company was tied to using their own TracFone branded cell phones, which were locked to TracFone via their SIM card. In 2013, the company expanded and introduced its “Bring Your Own Phone” plan, which allows customers to use other, unlocked, GSM-based cell phones. Since 2015, the company has offered a variety of smartphone plans, with basic plans starting at $15 a month for 500 calling minutes, 500 text messages, and 500mb of data.

The company also operates under other names including Clearway Wireless for Business, Go Smart Mobile, Safelink, Simply Mobile, Straight Talk, Walmart’s Family Mobile, Total Wireless and Net10 Wireless

In June 2019, a court denied TracFone’s request to register the phrase “unlimited carryover” stating that the phrase was informational and not a program offered for all TracFone services.

In September 2019, Apple’s long-awaited iPhone 11 was released but only through pre-orders other than through TracFone service sold via Amazon.

Also in September 2019, the FBI served warrants to multiple companies, including TracFone, demanding subscribers’ personal information.

In April 2022, TracFone paid $13.4 million as part of a civil settlement to resolve allegations that TracFone violated the False Claims Act by signing up more than 175,000 ineligible customers in connection with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Lifeline Program (Lifeline).

Headquarters for TracFone remains in Miami, Florida.

TracFone

History

In June 2019, a court denied TracFone’s request to register the phrase “unlimited carryover” stating that the phrase was informational and not a program offered for all TracFone services.

In September 2019, Apple’s long-awaited iPhone 11 was released but only through pre-orders other than through TracFone service sold via Amazon.

Also in September 2019, the FBI served warrants to multiple companies, including TracFone, demanding subscribers’ personal information.

Headquarters for TracFone remains in Miami, Florida.

Lacoste Corporate Office

René Lacoste founded La Chemise Lacoste in 1933 with André Gillier, the owner and president of the largest French knitwear manufacturing firm at the time. These partners began to produce a revolutionary tennis shirt that Lacoste had designed and worn on the tennis courts with a crocodile logo embroidered on the chest. Starting in the 1950s, Izod produced clothing called Izod Lacoste for sale in the U.S. This partnership ended in 1993 when Lacoste regained exclusive U.S. rights to distribute shirts under its own brand. In 1977, Le Tigre Clothing was founded in an attempt to directly compete with Lacoste in the US market, selling a similar array of clothing, but featuring a tiger in place of the signature Lacoste crocodile.

In June 2007, the company began its first e-commerce site online. In 2016, Lacoste opened a flagship store in Budapest.

The company has been involved in a long-standing dispute regarding its logo with Hong Kong-based sportswear company Crocodile Garments. At the time, Lacoste used a crocodile logo that faced right (registered in France in 1933) while Crocodile used one that faced left (registered in various Asian countries in the 1940s and 1950s). Lacoste tried to block an application from Crocodile to register its logo in China during the 1990s, the dispute ended in a settlement, with Crocodile agreeing to change its logo, which now sports scalier skin, bigger eyes and a tail that rises vertically.

Lacoste has expanded from selling clothing to include a wide variety of consumer items, including perfume, sunglasses, shoes, and watches.

In 2019, the company opened a new concept store in Metro Vancouver, Canada.

Headquarters for the Lacoste USA branch are located in New York, New York.

Lacoste

In June 2007, the company began its first e-commerce site online. In 2016, Lacoste opened a flagship store in Budapest.

History

Lacoste has expanded from selling clothing to include a wide variety of consumer items, including perfume, sunglasses, shoes, and watches.

In 2019, the company opened a new concept store in Metro Vancouver, Canada.

Headquarters for the Lacoste USA branch are located in New York, New York.

Boots UK Corporate Office

John Boots founded Boots stores in Nottingham, UK, back in 1849. When John passed away in 1860, his 10-year old son Jesse helped his mother continue to operate the herbal medicine shop. In 1888 the company incorporated as the Boots Pure Drug Company.

Today, Boots is one of the largest retailers in the UK and Ireland, both in revenue and number of shops, with at least 2,500 locations. The company offers health and beauty products, hearing care services, optician services, and prescription drugs.

n 2009 Boots Superintendent Pharmacist Paul Bennett was interviewed by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee about the company’s sale of homeopathic medicines. He told the committee that the company had no evidence to suggest that homeopathic medicines are efficacious but Boots sold them anyway, for reasons of “consumer choice”. The comments attracted significant media attention.

In July 2017, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service revealed that Boots was selling the “morning after” pill, which is an emergency contraceptive medication, at four times the cost. The company refused requests to join rival pharmacy retail chains to cease profiting financially from this medication. In a written response to BPAS, Boots revealed that they were frequently contacted by individuals who disapproved of the dispensing of such medication, which might be viewed as “incentivising inappropriate use”, an assertion which campaigners described as “insulting and sexist”. By the end of January 2018, Boots confirmed that it was now offering the discounted price on this medication in all of its pharmacies.

The company announced that at the end of September 2019, they would start charging for delivery service. Customers are outraged, claiming that Boots is putting a tax on sick people who require medication and can’t get to the pharmacy.

A makeup artist is claiming racial discrimination after discovering that only products for black haircare contained security tags to prevent theft.

The head office remains in Nottingham, where is has been for 170 years.

Boots

History

A makeup artist is claiming racial discrimination after discovering that only products for black haircare contained security tags to prevent theft.

The head office remains in Nottingham, where is has been for 170 years.