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Public Storage Corporate Office

Public Storage

Public Storage was founded on August 14, 1972, and built its first self-storage facility the same year.

Public Storage acquires, develops, owns, and operates self-storage facilities in the United States and Europe.

History

The company has more than 2,200 self-storage facilities with 127 million net rentable square feet in 38 states and 10 million net rentable square feet in 7 western European countries.

Public Storage is a publicly traded company, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol PSA.

Some customers have found their items auctioned off after billing errors, such as in the case of a woman in Phoenix.

Public Storage is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which means that it is a company that owns income-producing real estate. Some other examples of REITs are hotels, warehouses, hospitals, and shopping centers. As a REIT, Public Storage is not subject to federal income tax because it distributes 90% of its taxable income to shareholders.

Public Storage has 5,000 employees, is part of the S&P 500, is #361 in the FT Global 500, is #996 in the Fortune 1,000, and had $2.56 billion in revenue in 2016.

In December 2022, the company announced the opening of a new, state-of-the-art facility in the Silicone Valley of California.

Public Storage maintains a corporate office in Glendale, California.

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Shopko Corporate Office

Shopko

Shopko was founded in 1962 by James Ruben, a pharmacist, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His vision was of a larger retail store with health care services combined with retail operations. As a result, Shopko became one of the first brands to offer services such as eye care centers and pharmacies inside the stores.

Shopko also operates walk-in clinics in their stores in partnership with local hospitals.

The company was public from 1991 to 2005, when it was bought by an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners and was taken private.

History

Today Shopko operates more than 330 stores, including 135 Shopko discount stores and 175 Shopko Hometown shops (formerly Pamida stores) in 20 states across the Midwest, Mountain, and Pacific Northwest.

Shopko has 16,000 employees, had $3 billion in revenue in 2013, and is #167 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies.

Mary Kay Corporate Office

Mary Kay

Mary Kay Ash founded her namesake company in 1963, after 25 years of direct selling for other companies.

She worked first at Stanley Home Products, where she did home shows in customers’ homes to sell products. Stanley also had a system where they paid a small percentage of sales to the recruiter of a new salesperson. Mary Kay eventually recruited 150 salespeople and received a commission from each one.

When she opened her own company, Mary Kay required “beauty consultants” to pay for a start-up kit, called the “Beauty Showcase” kit. The consultants were trained in scheduling and giving Mary Kay parties. Mary Kay also had strict guidelines about selling and how to sell.

History

The company grew steadily, and by 1993 the Mary Kay manufacturing facility was the size of three football fields. At this time the company had a salesforce of 220,000.

In the 1990’s Mary Kay expanded to Asia.

Today Mary Kay is the sixth-largest direct selling company in the world, with $3 billion in revenue in 2013. The company is #163 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies.

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Juicy Couture Corporate Office

Juicy Couture

Juicy Couture was founded in California in 1995 by Gela Nash and Pamela Skaist-Levy, two friends who decided to create their own fashion label, Travis Jeans, which sold maternity pants.

The next year they changed the name of the company to Juicy Couture.

To gain attention for the brand, Nash and Levy began to send their designs to celebrities. In 2001 the famous Juicy Couture tracksuit was introduced and custom-designed for Madonna, who turned it into a trend.

History

In 2003 Juicy Couture was bought by Fifth & Pacific Companies (formerly Liz Claiborne Inc.).

In 2004 the velour tracksuit became popular with Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton.

In 2013 Fifth & Pacific sold the company to Authentic Brands Group (ABG) for $195 million.

Juicy Couture is sold in department stores such as Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus, as well as through flagship stores and boutiques in North America.

Juicy Couture is a global brand, and is available in over 60 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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Motel 6 Corporate Office

Motel 6

Motel 6 was founded by William Becker and Paul Greene in Santa Barbara, California in 1962.

History

The partners wanted to build motels with bargain rates and decided on the rate of $6 per night; a rate which would cover building costs, land leases, and janitorial supplies. This $6 rate is the reason for the name “Motel 6.”

To cut costs the brand offered coin-operated black and white television sets instead of the free color televisions offered at more upscale hotels. Motel 6 also had no on-site dining, a model that continues today.

Throughout the 1960’s the Motel 6 model became more popular and the company began to take a small market share away from bigger chains.

By 1980 Motel 6 had 300 locations.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought Motel 6 in 1985 and began to move it away from the no-frills approach.

French-based Accor bought the company in 1990 and began franchising in 1994 in order to expand more quickly

In 2000, Motel 6 expanded internationally for the first time with a location in Ontario, Canada.

In 2008, the company began a nationwide overhaul and remodeling of all locations. The newly designed rooms won the Travel and Leisure Design Award in 2010.

The Blackstone Group bought the motel chain in 2012 for $1.9 billion.

In September 2017, immigration attorneys accused Motel 6 desk clerks at two locations in Phoenix, Arizona, of notifying US Immigration when guests checked in only with identification from Mexico. The attorneys said that court records showed that federal immigration agents arrested at least 20 people the Phoenix Motel 6 locations over the course of seven months in 2017. Motel 6 stated that this was an isolated incident at the Phoenix locations and that they did not endorse this practice.

In June 2019 the company settled a class action lawsuit over this practice. Settlement terms included a 3-year agreement to not violate customer privacy and pay $12 million.

Today Motel 6 has more than 1,100 locations in the United States and Canada. Motel 6 also operates extended-stay hotel chain Studio 6, which has about 60 locations. Company headquarters are located in Carrollton, Texas.

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