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COUNTRY Financial Corporate Office

COUNTRY Financial

COUNTRY Financial is a group of financial services and insurance companies.

The company was founded in 1925 when a group of members from the Illinois Agricultural Association developed an organization to provide fire insurance to local farmers.

The organization expanded to crop insurance in 1926, auto insurance in 1927, and life insurance in 1929. Financial services offered include annuities, investment management, retirement planning, and estate planning.

History

Today COUNTRY Financial provides policies in 30 states to individuals and businesses through subsidiaries COUNTRY Preferred Insurance Company, COUNTRY Casualty Insurance Company and Modern Service Insurance Company.

COUNTRY Financial is #668 in the Fortune 1000.

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ServiceMaster Corporate Office

ServiceMaster

ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. provides services such as termite and pest control, home warranties, janitorial services, home cleaning, and home inspections, among others.

The company was founded in 1929 by minor-league baseball player Marion E. Wade as a moth-proofing company, expanding in 1952 to franchised carpet cleaning.

History

In the 1980s ServiceMaster expanded and formed a network of branch and franchise-based businesses such as Terminix, TruGreen, Furniture Medic, and Merry Maids. TruGreen was acquired by Scotts Miracle-Gro in 2016.

Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice Inc. led acquired the company in 2007 and took it private. ServiceMaster went public in 2014.

Today the company has more than 7,000 company-owned, franchised, and licensed locations.

ServiceMaster moved their headquarters location from East Memphis, Tennessee, to Peabody Place in downtown Memphis in 2016.

ServiceMaster Global Holdings trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SERV, has 13,000 employees, and had $2.41 billion in revenue in 2013. Company stock has been listed by several financial investment firms as being a “buy” in June 2019.

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Huntington National Bank Corporate Office

Huntington National Bank

Huntington National Bank was founded in 1866 by P. W. Huntington as P.W. Huntington & Company. Huntington’s great-grandfather, Benjamin Huntington, helped to start the Revolutionary War, when he called the first revolutionary meeting in Norwich, CT in 1744.

P.W. Huntington & Company incorporated in 1905 as Huntington National Bank of Columbus. Huntington involved his sons in the business and four of his five sons became partners in the bank.

In the 1960’s Huntington had a robust trust division and diversified into international business. In 1972 the bank was the first in the United States to open a 24-hour fully-automated banking office, called “Handy Bank.”

History

Today Huntington National Bank has 700 branches in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Florida. The bank is operated by Huntington Bancshares, which has $72.6 billion in assets as of 2016, making it the 33rd largest bank holding company in the U.S.

Huntington Bancshares trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol HBAN, is a member of the S&P 500, is #756 in the Fortune 1000, has 12,243 employees, and had $2.67 billion in revenue in 2013.

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Ingles Markets Corporate Office

Ingles Markets

Second generation grocer, Robert P. Ingle, decided to open his own market in 1963. His first location was in Asheville, North Carolina. From the beginning, the company name was Ingles, not Ingle’s.

In 1982 Ingle purchased a dairy farm, Milkco and expanded his grocery store to include dairy products. Milko remains a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ingles.

History

In 2000 the company started building Ingles Gas Express gas stations with its newer stores.

Today Ingles Markets has 201 locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama. The company also owns 70 shopping centers and a dairy farm that sells one-third of its products to Ingles Markets and the rest to other distributors. Ingles Markets also owns Sav-Mor Foods. There are currently 11 Save-Mor Food stores in 3 states.

The company is family controlled, with 86% of voting power and almost half of the shares owned by the Ingle family. Robert Ingle passed away in 2011 and his son, Robert Ingle II, then became CEO.

In February 2022, the company saw a 17percent increase in stock prices after announcing revenue growth in the first quarter.

Ingles Markets trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol IMKTA, is #629 in the Fortune 1000, is a member of the Russell 2000, and had $3.79 billion in revenue in 2016.

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Beckman Coulter Corporate Office

Beckman Coulter

Beckman Coulter is a manufacturer of biomedical laboratory instruments.

The company was founded in 1935 by Arnold O. Beckman as National Technical Laboratories to make and sell a PH meter that he had invented.

In 1940 Beckman changed the company’s name to Arnold O. Beckman, Inc. and diversified to oxygen analyzers, potentiometers, and spectrophotometers.

History

In the 1950’s Beckman established his first laboratory and began marketing semiconductor transistor technology.

Today Beckman Coulter develops, manufactures, and markets products for biomedical testing. Over 275,000 Beckman Coulter systems operate in Diagnostic and Life Sciences laboratories throughout the world. Clients include hospitals, laboratories, and scientists.

In 2011 Beckman Coulterwas was acquired by the Danaher Corporation.

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