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Legal and General Group Corporate Office

Legal and General Group

Legal and General Group, often referred to as simply Legal and General, was founded back in 1836 by Sergeant John Adams and five other lawyers. Originally named the New Law Life Assurance Agency, business clients were restricted to those in the legal profession.

The group expanded in the UK and soon began to acquire overseas life assurance companies, purchasing a pensions business from the Metropolitan Life Assurance Company of New York in the 1930s. The company changed its name to Legal and General in the 1970s.

History

Today, Legal & General Group provides various insurance products and services worldwide. It operates in Legal & General Retirement, Legal & General Investment Management, Legal & General Capital, Legal & General Insurance, and General Insurance segments. The LGR sector offers annuity contracts with guaranteed income for a specified time; longevity insurance products for company pension schemes; and lifetime mortgages. The LGIM sector provides index fund management; active fixed income and liquidity management; corporate pension scheme solutions; and real estate funds. The LGC sector offers investment strategy and implementation, and direct investment services. The LGI sector protection products, such as health, disability, critical illness and accident; individual term assurance; savings and death benefits; and annuities. The GI segment provides household and accident, sickness, unemployment, and pet insurance products.

In June 2019, the company began selling off their shares of US companies that were deemed to be “laggards” when it came to addressing climate change, including ExxonMobile and MetLife.

Legal and General also praised Amazon‘s blockchain system for bulk pension deals and stated that they planned to introduce a blockchain model based on Amazon’s system to manage and record bulk annuities for its insurance division.

The corporate office for Legal and General remains in London, United Kingdom.

Calvin Klein Corporate Office

Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein opened a coat shop in New York City in 1968, using $10,000 to purchase stock. He purchased a few dresses and the following year was featured on the cover of Vogue magazine.

By 1971, Klein had added sportswear, blazers, and women’s lingerie to the lineup. In 1973, Klein became the youngest person to win the Coty American Fashion Critics’ Award.

History

By the mid-1970s, jeans with the Calvin Klein logo on the rear pocket became one of the hottest selling items on the fashion market.

The company began selling men’s and women’s underwear in the mid-1980s. While Klein had attempted and failed in the 1970s to sell a line a perfume, when it was reintroduced in the early 1990s, it became a popular best-seller.

In 2002, Calvin Klein, Inc. was sold to Philip Van Husen, the world’s largest manufacturer of men’s dress shirts.

Kendall Jenner has been the long-time face for Calvin Klein, most recently advertising bathing suits.

In June 2019, Calvin Kelin announced a new CEO Cheryl Abel-Hodges, who has worked for fashion icons such as Ralph Lauren and Liz Claireborn.

Calvin Klein fashion remains in style after more than 50 years, with Melania Trump wearing a pantsuit to welcome the president of Poland in June 2019.

Headquarters for Calvin Klein remain in New York, New York.

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Marcolin Eyewear Corporate Office

Marcolin Eyewear

History

Tody, Marcolin is the #2 eyewear manufacturer in the world. The company manufactures eyewear for multiple companies, with the latest agreement in June 2019, with Adidas. Also in June 2019, Marcolin renewed their contract with Harley Davidson to continue to produce their eyewear products.

Licensed brands that the company manufactures eyewear for include: Adidas, Atelier Swarovski, Bally, Candie’s, Calvin Klein, Catherine Deneuve, Columbia, Covergirl, Diesel, DSquared2, Emilio Pucci, Ermenegildo Zegna, Gant, GUESS, Harley-Davidson, Just Cavalli, Kenneth Cole New York, Kenneth Cole Reaction, Lacoste, Marciano, Moncler, Nike Vision, Nine West, Nautica, Rampage, Roberto Cavalli, Skechers, Sportmax, Swarovski, Timberland, Tod’s, Tom Ford, Victoria’s Secret, Victoria’s Secret PINK, as well as their own label.

The company outfits all of the Victoria’s Secret “Angel” models with their eyewear brand, as well as manufacturing for Victoria’s Secret brand Pink.

In 2015, the company closed all offices around the US, including the corporate office located in Scottsdale, Arizona, to consolidate all offices in Somerville, New Jersey. The move comes about 15 months after the company acquired Viva International, who had large offices located in Somerville.

Headquarters are now located in Somerville, New Jersey.

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Certegy Corporate Office

Certegy

Certegy was founded in 2001 as a spin-off company of Equifax. The company had two divisions, one for check verification services and one for credit cards. In 2006, Certegy merged with Fidelity National Financial. While the merger was originally designed to have Certegy be the surviving name, it was eventually changed to Fidelity National Information Services or FIS, although most people still use the Certegy name.

History

Since the merger with Fidelity Information Services, the division of Certegy responsible for merchant check guarantee has been renamed as FIS as well.

The company offers a variety of financial services to consumers, including no interest loans, and check verification services to merchants.

On July 3, 2007, Certegy announced via press release that their security had been compromised by one of their own employees. Nearly three million names had been stolen and sold to marketing companies who then contacted various consumers with “offers to sell stuff”. The company reached a settlement with the state of Florida in 2010.

In late 2018, Certegy announced the sale of its check verification services to Variant Equity Advisors, LLC.

Certegy offers a mobile app to manage loan payments and other financial services.

Corporate offices at this time are located in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Barclays Bank Corporate Office

Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank can trace its roots as far back as 1690 when John Freame and Thomas Gould began trading as goldsmith bankers in London. The name “Barclays” began to be used in 1736 when Freame’s son-in-law, James Barclay, became a partner.

In the early 1900s, Barclays began acquiring small English banks. The company expanded even further when it acquired the British Linen Bank in 1919.

History

In 1941 during the German occupation of France, one branch in Paris, headed by Marcel Cheradame, worked directly with the invading force. Senior officials at the bank volunteered the names of Jewish employees as well as ceding an estimated 100 Jewish bank accounts to the German occupiers.

In 1980, Barclays Bank went international and expanded its business to include commercial credit and took over American Credit Corporation, renaming it Barclays American Corporation.

In 2001, Barclays closed 171 branches in the UK, most of them in rural communities. In 2003, the company acquired Banco Zaragozano. In 2006, Barclays purchased the HomEq Servicing Corporation for US$469 million in cash from Wachovia Corporation.

In August 2015 it was announced that Barclays would become the first UK high street bank to start accepting bitcoin. The company revealed plans which would allow users to make charitable donations using the virtual currency.

n 1998, Barclays Bank agreed to pay $3.6m to Jews whose assets were seized from French branches of the British-based bank during World War II.

The CMA recently directed Barclays to stop selling banned banking services and practices that it agreed to back in 2002.

Barclays Bank has operations in nearly every country in the world. Barclays has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and it has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Qatar Holdings, an investment vehicle of the State of Qatar, is the largest shareholder of the company.

Headquarters remain in London, UK. According to a 2011 paper by Vitali et al., Barclays was the most powerful transnational corporation in terms of ownership and therefore has control over global financial stability and marketplace competition.

Barclays Bank can trace its roots as far back as 1690 when John Freame and Thomas Gould began trading as goldsmith bankers in London. The name "Barclays" began to be used in 1736 when Freame's son-in-law, James Barclay, became a partner. In the … [Continue reading] about Barclays Bank Corporate Office