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Halls Corporate Office

Halls

Halls is the store division of Hallmark Cards. The Halls and Hallmark line was founded in 1916 by Joyce Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. Hall originally sold greeting cards from a display case in the lobby of a Kansas City store. The company soon moved to their own store and slowly began adding other merchandise to their line in addition to the very popular greeting cards.

Building a new store in the Crown Center began in 1973. Crown Center replaced the original downtown Halls store. Halls stores feature a wide variety of clothing, jewelry, wedding items, shoes, children and infants clothing, as well as china and crystal glassware.

In 2013, Halls consolidated their two stores into the new Crown Center. The new Crown Center officially opened September of 2014. Halls employs 10,500 full time employees and almost 20,000 part time employees. The company had annual revenue in 2015 of $3.7 billion.

History

Curacao Corporate Office

Curacao

Curacao was founded in Burbank, California, in 1978 by current CEO Jerry Azarkman. Originally named La Curacao, the company was popular among lower income Hispanics who were unable to buy on credit. Curacao allowed clients to purchase items with only down payment, then collect money from customers weekly.

Azarkman originally sold out of his home, as well as door to door sales. He spoke very little English and no Spanish at the time, but he learned quickly. Azarkman is known for saying that courtesy and respect are languages everyone understands. Curacao opened its first store in the Pico district of Los Angeles in 1983.

Today, Curacao has more than 11 stores throughout Southern California, two stores in Arizona, with plans to expand to Texas and Nevada. Curacao employs more than 2,180 persons and annual revenue in 2014 of $2.5 million.

History

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Barneys New York Corporate Office

Barneys New York

Barney Pressman founded Barneys New York in 1923. Pawning his wife’s engagement ring for $500, he rented a small storefront on 7th Avenue and West 17th Street in Manhattan. Barneys originally sold discounted clothing that he purchased from showroom samples and overstocks. The company also offered free parking and free alterations to attract more customers.

The company did a complete turnaround in 1973 when Fred Pressman, son of founder Barney Pressman, decided that the company could do better than selling discount items. The company began to stock designer, high end clothing items from designers such as Armani, Bill Blass, and Christian Dior.

In 2004, the Pressman family sold their remaining interest in Barneys. Today, the company is mainly owned by Perry Capital. The company has 27 locations and had revenue in 2015 of $1 billion.

History

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Modell’s Sporting Goods Corporate Office

Modell's Sporting Goods

Modell’s Sporting Goods, frequently called Modell’s, was founded by Morris Modell in 1889, in Manhattan, New York. Modell’s is the 3rd oldest sporting goods company in America.

Modell’s is still a family-owned business, which today has more than 152 stores, mainly in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The company sells a wide range of sporting apparel, sporting equipment, shoes, hats, and other sports equipment.

History

The current CEO, Mitchell Modell, was featured on a television episode of Undercover Boss, which aired on November 2, 2012. A lawsuit has since been filed against Modell by their competitor Dick’s Sporting Goods. The lawsuit claims that Modell was using his Undercover Boss disguise to snoop around Dick’s Sporting Goods stores to learn their trade secrets.

Modell’s reported revenue in 2012 of $680 million.

In February 2020 the company announced that it intended to close 24 stores. However, in March 2020, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced that it would liquidate the inventory of its 134 remaining stores. The liquidation began on March 13, 2020, and all stores were closed by the end of August 2020.

The company still maintains an online e-commerce site.

Modell’s maintains a corporate office in New York, New York.

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Angie’s List Corporate Office

Angie's List

Angie’s List was founded in 1995 by Angie Hicks and William Oesterle. Oesterle was Hick’s supervisor at a time when Hicks was having difficulty finding a reliable construction contractor. Hick’s moved to Columbus, Ohio, to join in a business venture with Oesterle. The original name of the company was Columbus Neighbors.

The company purchased Unified Neighbors in 1996 and moved their headquarters to Indianapolis, Indiana.

History

Angie’s List is an online, paid subscription referral service for a wide variety of consumer needs, such as contractors, roofers, auto repair shops, even doctors, and healthcare facilities. The company uses a rating scale similar to grade school report cards with ratings ranging from a perfect “A” to a failing “F”.

In early 2014, the company paid $2.8 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it automatically renewed members at a higher rate than they were led to believe.

Then in August of 2016, Angie’s List agreed to settle three lawsuits for a payment of $1.4 million. The class action lawsuits focused on the company’s acceptance of advertising payments from service providers, and whether those payments affect service providers’ letter-grade ratings and reviews. Angie’s List denies the plaintiffs’ claims but disclosed that revenue from service providers can affect the order of search-result rankings of the service provider under certain settings.

Angie’s List, now rebranding itself simply as Angie, isn’t all sunshine and roses. Problems with contractors are not unheard of.

Today, Angie’s List has more than 70,000 subscribers and more than 3.2 million paid members. On May 2, 2017, IAC (InteractiveCorp), owner of HomeAdvisor, announced that it had agreed to acquire Angie’s List for $8.50 per share (valuing the company at over $500 million). IAC plans to merge Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor into a new publicly traded subsidiary known as ANGI Homeservices.

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