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Jacobs Engineering Corporate Office

Jacobs Engineering was founded by Joseph J. Jacobs in 1947 as Jacobs Engineering Company. The original company was both a consulting agency and a manufacturer’s representative for makers of large-scale equipment in the processing industry.

In 1956 the company completed its first substantial chemical project – the engineering of a chlorine plant in Louisiana.

In 1970 Jacobs Engineering went public, trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

From 1968 to 1978 the company completed one-third of the uranium projects in the United States with 1,600 employees.

In 1995 Jacobs Engineering expanded to Italy, Spain, and France and in 1999 to the Middle East.

Today Jacobs Engineering is an international architecture, engineering, and construction firm with offices all over the world. The company’s largest single client (20%) is the United States Government, for which it does aerospace and defense work.

Typical projects for Jacobs Engineering include oil refineries, manufacturing plants, and roads and highways.

Jacobs Engineering is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol JEC, is a member of the S&P 500, is #249 in the Fortune 500, has 50,000 worldwide employees, and had $12.13 billion in revenue in 2013.

Jacobs Engineering

Jacobs Engineering was founded by Joseph J. Jacobs in 1947 as Jacobs Engineering Company. The original company was both a consulting agency and a manufacturer’s representative for makers of large-scale equipment in the processing industry.

In 1956 the company completed its first substantial chemical project – the engineering of a chlorine plant in Louisiana.

In 1970 Jacobs Engineering went public, trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

History

From 1968 to 1978 the company completed one-third of the uranium projects in the United States with 1,600 employees.

In 1995 Jacobs Engineering expanded to Italy, Spain, and France and in 1999 to the Middle East.

Today Jacobs Engineering is an international architecture, engineering, and construction firm with offices all over the world. The company’s largest single client (20%) is the United States Government, for which it does aerospace and defense work.

Typical projects for Jacobs Engineering include oil refineries, manufacturing plants, and roads and highways.

Jacobs Engineering is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol JEC, is a member of the S&P 500, is #249 in the Fortune 500, has 50,000 worldwide employees, and had $12.13 billion in revenue in 2013.

Kate Spade Corporate Office

Kate Spade Purse

Kate Brosnahan Spade started Kate Spade New York under the name Kate Spade Handbags in 1993 when she set out to design the perfect handbag.

Ms. Spade was a former accessories editor at Mademoiselle. Through her time at Mademoiselle, she noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags. This inspired her to create a line of handbags with classic shapes, colors, and fabrics.

The brand was sold to Neiman Marcus in 1996 and was then expanded to include stationary, personal organizers, address books, beauty products, perfume, raincoats, pajamas, and eyewear.

In 2004 Kate Spade Home was launched, featuring bedding, bath items, china, wallpaper, and other home products.

Kate Spade Basic Black Bag

In 2007 the company was sold to Fifth & Pacific, formerly known as Liz Claiborne Inc.

In 2008 the new owners cashed out and a new management was installed. The new leadership then expanded the brand to jewelry, shoes, baby, fragrance, and gifts.

Kate Spade apparently committed suicide in her Manhattan apartment. She was 55.

Today Kate Spade New York is a global company with stores in Tokyo, London, Paris, and Germany. The company has retail, wholesale, and e-commerce business. Kate Spade had $462 million in sales in 2012.

Kate Spade in Store

Kate Spade

Kate Spade Purse

Kate Brosnahan Spade started Kate Spade New York under the name Kate Spade Handbags in 1993 when she set out to design the perfect handbag.

Ms. Spade was a former accessories editor at Mademoiselle. Through her time at Mademoiselle, she noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags. This inspired her to create a line of handbags with classic shapes, colors, and fabrics.

History

The brand was sold to Neiman Marcus in 1996 and was then expanded to include stationary, personal organizers, address books, beauty products, perfume, raincoats, pajamas, and eyewear.

In 2004 Kate Spade Home was launched, featuring bedding, bath items, china, wallpaper, and other home products.

Kate Spade Basic Black Bag

In 2007 the company was sold to Fifth & Pacific, formerly known as Liz Claiborne Inc.

In 2008 the new owners cashed out and a new management was installed. The new leadership then expanded the brand to jewelry, shoes, baby, fragrance, and gifts.

Kate Spade apparently committed suicide in her Manhattan apartment. She was 55.

Today Kate Spade New York is a global company with stores in Tokyo, London, Paris, and Germany. The company has retail, wholesale, and e-commerce business. Kate Spade had $462 million in sales in 2012.

Kate Spade in Store

Trader Joe’s Corporate Office

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Trader Joe’s was founded by Joe Coulombe in 1958 as a convenience store chain called Pronto Market. The stores were similar to 7-Eleven stores. Coulombe felt that direct competition with 7-Eleven would be ruinous, so he changed the concept of his stores.

After a vacation in the Carribean, Coulombe decided that a “Tiki” theme would be pleasing. He noticed that more and more people were returning from their vacations with food items they enjoyed. Coulombe decided that he would experiment by ordering food and wines that were not easily found in regular supermarkets. This is still true today and one of the reasons why Trader Joe’s is such as success. TJ 5

The first “Trader Joe’s” opened in 1967 on Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California. The first stores featured fresh meat from butchers who leased space in the stores, freshly squeezed orange juice, fresh cut cheese, and sandwich shops.

Theo Albrecht of Aldi Nord bought Trader Joe’s in 1979 and began to expand the company beyond California.

Between 1990 and 2001 the chain quintupled store numbers and multiplied its profit by ten.  Trader Joe’s sales for 2015 were estimated to be as much as $13 billion.

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Trader Joe’s supermarkets have about 4,000 products, compared to about 50,000 in an average supermarket. 80% of these products are private label brands. Trader Joe’s stocks gourmet foods, organic foods, vegetarian foods, unusual frozen foods, imported foods, domestic and imported wine and beer, and staples like bread, eggs, cereal, and produce. TJ 1

Trader Joe’s has an excellent reputation as a fair employer, paying above union wages. It was also part of MSN Money’s Customer Service Hall of Fame in 2009 and 2010.

The company is the exclusive retailer of Charles Shaw Wines, often referred to as Two Buck Chuck because of its original $1.99 price tag.

Beginning in 2008, the company began phasing out products from China due to customer concerns about purity and quality. Trader Joe’s sells many items under its own private labels, at a significant discount to brand-name equivalents, and requires its brand-name suppliers not to publicize this business relationship.

Post pandemic shopping habits have changed and Trader Joe’s might suffer because of it. 

In September 2020, Whole Foods took the #1 spot over Trader Joe’s as the best workplace for graduates according to Forbes. 

Today Trader Joe’s has 474 stores in 43 states, with the heaviest concentration in California. The company is constantly expanding, with many stores carrying as much as 50,000 items. Headquarters remain in Monrovia, California.

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Trader Joe's

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Trader Joe’s was founded by Joe Coulombe in 1958 as a convenience store chain called Pronto Market. The stores were similar to 7-Eleven stores. Coulombe felt that direct competition with 7-Eleven would be ruinous, so he changed the concept of his stores.

After a vacation in the Carribean, Coulombe decided that a “Tiki” theme would be pleasing. He noticed that more and more people were returning from their vacations with food items they enjoyed. Coulombe decided that he would experiment by ordering food and wines that were not easily found in regular supermarkets. This is still true today and one of the reasons why Trader Joe’s is such as success. TJ 5

History

The first “Trader Joe’s” opened in 1967 on Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California. The first stores featured fresh meat from butchers who leased space in the stores, freshly squeezed orange juice, fresh cut cheese, and sandwich shops.

Theo Albrecht of Aldi Nord bought Trader Joe’s in 1979 and began to expand the company beyond California.

Between 1990 and 2001 the chain quintupled store numbers and multiplied its profit by ten.  Trader Joe’s sales for 2015 were estimated to be as much as $13 billion.

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Trader Joe’s supermarkets have about 4,000 products, compared to about 50,000 in an average supermarket. 80% of these products are private label brands. Trader Joe’s stocks gourmet foods, organic foods, vegetarian foods, unusual frozen foods, imported foods, domestic and imported wine and beer, and staples like bread, eggs, cereal, and produce. TJ 1

Trader Joe’s has an excellent reputation as a fair employer, paying above union wages. It was also part of MSN Money’s Customer Service Hall of Fame in 2009 and 2010.

The company is the exclusive retailer of Charles Shaw Wines, often referred to as Two Buck Chuck because of its original $1.99 price tag.

Beginning in 2008, the company began phasing out products from China due to customer concerns about purity and quality. Trader Joe’s sells many items under its own private labels, at a significant discount to brand-name equivalents, and requires its brand-name suppliers not to publicize this business relationship.

Post pandemic shopping habits have changed and Trader Joe’s might suffer because of it. 

In September 2020, Whole Foods took the #1 spot over Trader Joe’s as the best workplace for graduates according to Forbes. 

Today Trader Joe’s has 474 stores in 43 states, with the heaviest concentration in California. The company is constantly expanding, with many stores carrying as much as 50,000 items. Headquarters remain in Monrovia, California.

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Associated Supermarkets Corporate Office

Associated Supermarkets, also known as Associated Food Stores, was founded in 1940 by Donald P. Lloyd, president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association, along with 34 other retailers.

Lloyd was concerned that small independent retailers would be adversely affected by large corporate stores and could only survive by uniting and facing the competition with their collective bargaining power.

Lloyd along with the 34 other retailers each gave $300 to build an independent and associated warehouse.

Today Associated Food Stores supplies 500 independently owned retail supermarkets and operates corporate stores under five different names: Fresh Market, Macey’s, Lin’s, Dick’s Market, and Dan’s.

Associated Food Stores has 1,400 employees and had $1.9 billion in revenue in 2011.

 

Associated Food Stores

Associated Supermarkets, also known as Associated Food Stores, was founded in 1940 by Donald P. Lloyd, president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association, along with 34 other retailers.

Lloyd was concerned that small independent retailers would be adversely affected by large corporate stores and could only survive by uniting and facing the competition with their collective bargaining power.

Lloyd along with the 34 other retailers each gave $300 to build an independent and associated warehouse.

History

Today Associated Food Stores supplies 500 independently owned retail supermarkets and operates corporate stores under five different names: Fresh Market, Macey’s, Lin’s, Dick’s Market, and Dan’s.

Associated Food Stores has 1,400 employees and had $1.9 billion in revenue in 2011.

 

Vitacost Corporate Office

Vitacost is an e-commerce company that sells vitamins, supplements, sports nutrition, and organic health and grocery products.

Vitacost was founded in 1994 as Nature’s Wreath Company, a catalog-retailer of vitamins and supplements.

In 1999 the company launched Vitacost.com and introduced its own brand of vitamins and supplements.

In 2008 Vitacost finished construction on its North Carolina manufacturing facility.

Vitacost went public in 2009, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol VITC.

In 2013 Vitacost started several new product lines, including pre and post-workout formulas, protein powders, flavored glutamine, creatine, and branched-chain amino acids. The company had $370.47 million in revenue in 2012.

Vitacost

Vitacost is an e-commerce company that sells vitamins, supplements, sports nutrition, and organic health and grocery products.

Vitacost was founded in 1994 as Nature’s Wreath Company, a catalog-retailer of vitamins and supplements.

In 1999 the company launched Vitacost.com and introduced its own brand of vitamins and supplements.

History

In 2008 Vitacost finished construction on its North Carolina manufacturing facility.

Vitacost went public in 2009, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol VITC.

In 2013 Vitacost started several new product lines, including pre and post-workout formulas, protein powders, flavored glutamine, creatine, and branched-chain amino acids. The company had $370.47 million in revenue in 2012.