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Woolworths Australia Corporate Office

Woolworths

Woolworths, best known as Woolies, got its start back in 1924 when it opened in Sydney as Woolworths Stupendous Bargain Basement. The new store was unique at the time and the first variety store to print out receipts for customers, rather than handwritten notes.

The company began to expand, with Woolworths New Zealand opening in 1956, along with stores in Brisbane and Perth. By the end of 1933, despite the Great Depression, the company had 23 stores and opened its first store in Melbourne in 1936.

History

By 1955 the company had 200 stores. In 1997, the first Metro convenience store opened in Sydney. The company opened a buying office in Hong Kong in June 2006 which allowed them to cut prices by cutting out the middle man. That same year, the company announced a joint venture with the India-based Tata Group to sell Dick Smith electronics in India and it introduced self-serve checkouts at some locations.

Today, this conglomerate includes supermarkets (under the Woolworths name in Australia and the Countdown name in New Zealand), liquor retailing (as BWS and Dan Murphy’s in Australia), hotels and pubs under the Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group umbrella, and discount department stores under the Big W name in Australia.

In June 2019, the company announced that it was increasing the price of milk, but it is unclear if dairy farmers are going to benefit from this price increase.

Also in June 2019, a popular ice cream cake, Bulla Ready to Decorate, was pulled from store shelves over fears that the cake might contain undeclared allergens, which could pose a health risk.

Company headquarters are located in Bella Vista, New South Wales.

Diesel Corporate Office

Diesel

At the age of 15, Renzo Rosso was using his mother’s sewing machine to sew jeans for himself and friends in Molvena, Italy. In 1976, he began working for a clothing manufacturer owned by Andriano Goldschmied. After working there for several years, Rosso obtained a loan from his father to purchase a 40% stake in the company. He changed the name to Diesel and began manufacturing jeans.

Rosso bought out Goldschmied’s interest in the Diesel brand name in 1985 for US $500,000, becoming the sole owner of the company. By 1991, Diesel branded, Italian made jeans were being sold in American stores. By 1998, The Wall Street Journal called Diesel jeans “the label of the moment.”

History

Rosso began acquiring fashion companies in 2002. In 2005, on his 50th birthday, Rosso released a limited edition book entitled “Fifty”, which features an illustrated history of the company.

At its peak in 2010, the company had more than 400 stores, with half of them being franchises, and in 2012, Rosso made the Forbes billionaire list for the first time.

In March 2019, Diesel USA filed for bankruptcy. The company has stated that they have no plans to sell or close out the company, but they did close 28 locations. Diesel currently has 340 locations in the US.

Diesel’s Red Tag X jeans recently made Mashable’s list of the Worst Jean Trends of 2019.

American headquarters for the brand are located in New York, New York.

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Royal Bank of Canada Corporate Office

Royal Bank of Canada

Royal Bank of Canada was founded in 1864 in Nova Scotia by a group of 8 businessmen who wanted to offer banking services for the fishing and timber industries. The original name of the bank was Merchants Bank of Halifax. The bank grew to include maritime services. When the Newfoundland bank collapsed, the company expanded to New Foundland.

With their expansion to Newfoundland, the bank changed its name to the Royal Bank of Canada and they moved headquarters to Montreal, Canada, in 1901.

History

Today, the company is a multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada. The bank serves over 16 million clients and has more than 80,000 employees worldwide.

The bank’s personal and commercial banking operations are branded as RBC Royal Bank in English and RBC Banque Royale in French and serve approximately ten million clients through its network of 1,209 branches.

In June 2019, the Royal Bank of Canada and Microsoft announced that they were creating a joint venture called “Go Digital” to help businesses confront the challenges of going digital.

In July 2019, the company stated that they believed the natural gas “glut” will continue at least through 2020, with China about to become the largest consumer of propane.

In 2011, RBC was the largest Canadian company by revenue and market capitalization. It was ranked at No. 50 in the 2013 Forbes Global 200 list. The company has operations in Canada, and 40 other countries.

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CoverGirl Corporate Office

CoverGirl

CoverGirl was founded in 1961 by the Noxzema Chemical Company. Originally having only 6 products, the makeup was marketed as being a “medicated” makeup line with Noxzema’s face cream ingredients of menthol, camphor, and eucalyptus.

Model and actress Jennifer O’Neil, who was 15 in 1963, began working for CoverGirl as their model. Her 30-year product endorsement made CoverGirl the top-selling brand of makeup in the US. Cybill Shepard was another model for the company, advertising the more natural look of the 1960s and 1970s, establishing the “girl next door” look.

History

The company has used numerous models for their makeup lines, including singer Katy Perry, comedian and talk show host Ellen Degeneres, along with long-time model Christie Brinkley, who greatly increased company sales when her advertising campaign debuted in 1985.

The company was once one of the largest global brands to conduct animal testing, but this is no longer true.

CoverGirl hired a male model for their makeup line and New York resident James Charles was recently named one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet by Time Magazine.

The company was acquired by Coty, Inc., in 2016.

CoverGirl launched an entire line of cosmetics specifically for women of color in late 2018.

The company also opened its first store in Times Square, New York, in 2018, which features augmented reality, where clients can “try on” various makeup looks via a computer program.

CoverGirl Lash Blast mascara has been the top-selling mascara for 15 years, selling one product every 7 minutes, according to CoverGirl.

Headquarters are located in New York, New York

CoverGirl was founded in 1961 by the Noxzema Chemical Company. Originally having only 6 products, the makeup was marketed as being a "medicated" makeup line with Noxzema's face cream ingredients of menthol, camphor, and eucalyptus. Model and actress … [Continue reading] about CoverGirl Corporate Office

Tesco Corporate Office

Tesco

Tesco can trace its roots back to 1919 when Jewish immigrant Jack Cohen began selling wartime surplus items from a market stall on the east side of London. In 1924, Cohen purchased tea from Thomas Edward Stockwell and decided to use the first two initials of Stockwell’s name and the first two letters of his own name to create the name Tesco for his company. He began to call his company Tesco starting in 1924.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Tesco began to expand tremendously, mainly through acquisitions, until it owned more than 800 locations. The company started to expand the range of products it sold during the 1960s to include household goods and clothing under the Delamare brand, and in 1974 opened its first petrol station.

History

Today, Tesco is an international company with stores in 11 countries. While the company pulled out of the US in 2011, they have done tremendously well in other countries, including India, Poland, and Thailand. While the company began as a UK grocer, it has since moved on to become a major department store brand that rivals Walmart in their selection of products.