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Polar Cave Ice Cream Corporate Office

Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour

Mark Lawrence founded Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour in 1995. Known for its generous portion sizes and unique flavors, such as Mashpee Mud, this small ice cream shop rakes in not only positive reviews but is frequently on many “Best Ice Cream” lists.

The “can’t miss” bubblegum pink and white location is popular with both locals and tourists.

Polar Cave not only serves walk-up customers but also provides drive-up service, where customers can wait in their air-conditioned cars for service.

History

Despite being a popular destination, the company has had trouble hiring new employees. At first, CEO and owner Mark Lawrence believed it was due to Covid, but even in 2022, offering $20 an hour, Lawrence still has problems hiring.

Due to the staffing shortage, customers have waited 30-60 minutes to be served, causing some customers to berate and belittle what are usually high-school or college-aged staffers.

Harassment of staff became so ugly in 2020 that Lawrence closed the ice cream parlour for a while.

Polar Cave offers gluten-free and vegan waffle cones, along with a variety of flavors, including some recipes that Lawrence claims are 100 years old.

Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour maintains a corporate office in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

Kanakuk Kamps Corporate Office

Kanakuk Kamps

Founded in 1926 and originally named Camp Kugaho, Kanakuk Kamps is a Christian-operated summer camp for children of all ages.

Today, Kanakuk Ministries remains under the decades-long leadership of Joe White, and his wife Debbie-Jo, Vice President, who inherited their roles from Joe’s parents in the 1970s.

Their son, Cooper, is also on the board of directors, and daughter Jamie Jo serves as the organization’s Director of Alumni Engagement.

History

Kanakuk Institutes operates a wide range of businesses in addition to the summer camps, including:

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Kanakuk Ministries
K-Kamps Inc.
Kanakuk Kamp
Kanakuk Kamps
Kanakuk-Kanakomo Kamp
Kanakuk-Kanakomo Kamps
Kanakuk-Kanakomo Kamps Inc.
Kanakuk Alumni Foundation
Kanakuk Heritage Inc.
Kanakuk Missouri Inc.

Kanakuk Kamps Inc.
Kids Across America
The Kanakuk Institute
Christian Children’s Charity
After Dark
Kids Across America Foundation
Kids Across Africa Foundation
Kids Across America
K-Life Ministries
K-Life National
SHIFT2FIFTH Ministries

K-Life of Tri-Lakes
Men At the Cross
Youth Life- Taney County
CircuiTree, LLC
I’m Third.com, LLC
K-Land One, LLC
K-Land Four, LLC
K-Transit, LLC
Kukorp, LLC
White Family Holding Company, Inc.
Kol El Roi, LLC

Former Director Pete Newman went to prison in 2010 for sexually abusing boys at the camp. Some believe that the abuse goes much further than just Newman but non-disclosure agreements made by some family members prevent further investigation.

In fact, some churches, in light of possible new allegations, have canceled contracts with Kanakuk Kamps for hosting their children’s summer camps.

In February 2022, a court awarded almost $30 million to the victims of sexual assault and abuse at the camps.

Kanakuk Kamps maintains a corporate office in Branson, Missouri.

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Boston Beer Corporate Office

Boston Beer

The Boston Beer Company was founded in 1984 by James Koch and Rhonda Kallman. Koch was the sixth-generation, first-born son to follow in his family’s brewing footsteps, brewed his first batch of beer in his kitchen.

While serving in his role as a manufacturing consultant at BCG, Koch developed a business plan for a locally focused beer company. He invested $100,000 of his own money and raised additional funds from investors, family members, and friends including former classmates and BCG colleagues.

In 1997, the company acquired the Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewery, which allowed the company to produce its own beer, rather than rely on contract brewing from other businesses.

History

In April 2008, the Boston Beer Company issued its first recall due to potential defects found in certain 12-fluid-ounce glass bottles manufactured by a third-party supplier which, at the time, supplied about a quarter of the bottles that the company used.

The company went public on the NYSE (under the ticker symbol SAM) in 1995. Like many stocks, SAM has its ups and downs, but The Motley Fool states that the company is still listed as a buy due to strong leadership.

Boston Beer Company maintains a corporate office in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Tophatter Corporate Office

Tophatter

Tophatter is an e-commerce and auction marketplace founded in 2012 by Ashvin Kumar ( current CEO) and Chris Estreich.

Tophatter is an online marketplace like Amazon, eBay, and Wish; however, the CEO Ashvin Kumar states that it’s more of a next-generation QVC or Home Shopping Network due to its auctions discovery shopping format.

Tophatter is currently live in the US, Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

History

The company is known to use games to help enhance not only the customer experience but to increase sales.

Unlike Amazon, which looks for similar items consumers have searched for, Tophatter prides itself on helping consumers find things they didn’t know they needed, wanted, or that even existed.

Tophatter maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

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Affirm Corporate Office

Affirm

Affirm was founded in 2012 by Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings, Jeffrey Kaditz, and Alex Rampel. The company operates an online financial technology platform as a financial lender of installment loans for consumers to use at the point of sale to finance a purchase.

The company announced a partnership with Walmart in February 2019. Using this partnership, Affirm loans are available to customers in-store and on the Walmart website.

Affirm has also partnered with e-commerce platforms including Shopify, BigCommerce, and Zen-Cart.

History

The company is also Amazon’s exclusive buy now, pay later partner in the United States, at least through January 2023.

The company has taken some heat for allowing the platform to be used for gun purchases, charging higher interest rates that leave many consumers disenfranchised.

Affirm went public on the NASDAQ in late 2020 under the ticker symbol AFRM.

In July 2022, the company stock saw an increase of more than 25 percent, causing some people to wonder if the stock is a good buy or not.

In December 2023, the US Federal Government warned banks like Affirm that offering buy now pay later plans could come back to bite them in the behind.

Affirm maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.