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Advance Publications Corporate Office

Advance Publications

S.I. Newhouse’s first job was with Judge Hyman Lazarus, a New York City magistrate who operated a law firm in 1910.

Newhouse rose through the ranks in the company and in 1922 went into business with Lazarus when they bought a 51% share in the The Staten Island Advance. This newspaper proved to be the founding of an empire.

In the 1930’s Newhouse acquired six more newspapers. In the 1940’s he acquired several more and earned a reputation for his talent of picking up and turning around small undistinguished newspapers.

History

In the 1950’s he established a reputation as a major competitor in newspaper publishing with the purchase of several prominent newspapers with hefty price tags, such as the Portland Oregonian for $5.6 million. In 1959 he purchased Conde Nast Publications, publisher of Vogue, Glamour, Young Brides, and House & Garden.

Today Advance Publications continues to be a family business. The company has a portfolio of about 25 newspapers, 40 weekly titles, and magazines including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, Architectural Digest, and Wired, among others.

Advance Publications is #49 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies, has 27,500 employees, and had $6.55 billion in revenue in 2011.

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Mansfield Oil Corporate Office

Mansfield Oil

Mansfield Oil was founded in 1957. The company is owned and operated by Chairman/CEO Michael F. Mansfield, Sr.

Mansfield Oil is a fuel distribution and logistics company that delivers petroleum products, ethanol, compressed natural gas (CNG), biodiesel, and diesel exhaust fluid to customers all over the United States, with heaviest distribution east of the Mississippi.

Mansfield Oil’s customers are commercial and industrial users, universities, government agencies, resellers, and retailers. The company also offers marketing support, logistics, and fuel equipment maintenance.

History

Mansfield Oil is #50 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. The company has 500 employees and had $6.50 billion in revenue in 2011.

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Cargill Corporate Office

Cargill

Cargill was founded in 1865 by William W. Cargill when he bought a grain flat house in Conover, Iowa. His brother Sam joined the business a year later and together they built grain flat houses and opened a lumberyard.

In 1875 another brother, James, joined the family business. In 1898 John H. MacMillan and his brother Daniel began to work for the company. John H. MacMillan later married William Cargill’s eldest daughter, Edna. He ran the company from Sam Cargill’s death in 1903 until his retirement in 1936.

The current owners of the company are descendants of John MacMillan’s sons, John H. MacMillan Jr. and Cargill MacMillan, and his youngest brother-in-law, Austin S. Cargill.

History

Over time Cargill grew from a grain storage facility to an international producer and distributor of agricultural products and a provider of risk management and commodities trading services, among others. Cargill employs almost 130,000 people in 63 countries.

Cargill is #1 on the Forbes List of America’s Largest Private Companies with $110 billion in revenue in 2011.

Koch Industries Corporate Office

Koch Industries

Fred C. Koch formed the Winkler-Koch Engineering Firm with MIT classmate, Lewis E. Winkler. The partners developed a more efficient thermal cracking process for turning crude oil into gasoline. They were sued for patent infringement and were unable to continue to work in the United States. The partners opened 15 cracking units in Russia between 1929 and 1932.

In 1940 Koch joined new partners to form the company Wood River Oil Company. Fred’s son Frank joined the company in 1961 and became president the next year following the death of his father.

The company changed its name to Koch Industries to honor Frank Koch after his death.

History

In 1969 Koch Industries acquired a majority interest in Great Northern Oil Company.

In 1980 Koch Chemical Technology Group is formed.

In 1992 Koch acquired a $100 million portfolio from Chrysler, putting Koch in the municipal finance business. By the end of the decade, Koch Financial Corp. had #1 billion in assets.

Today Koch Industries operates in diverse industries, including refining and chemicals, process and pollution control equipment, and technologies, fibers and polymers, commodity and financial trading, and forest and consumer products. Its Flint Hills Resources subsidiary owns three refineries that together process more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil daily.

Koch Industries is #2 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. Koch has 67,000 employees and had $100 billion in revenue in 2011.

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Mars Corporate Office

Mars, Inc.

Frank C. Mars opened The Mars Candy Factory in 1911 with his second wife, Ethel Mars, in Tacoma, Washington. The factory produced fresh candy which the company sold wholesale. This venture failed.

In 1920 Frank, now back in his home state of Minnesota, founded Mar-O-Bar Co., which is the earliest incarnation of the present company.

History

Frank’s son, Forrest Mars, introduced the Milky Way bar, which became the company’s best-selling candy bar.

In 1929 Frank moved the company to Chicago.

In 1932 Forrest expanded to the United Kingdom. The same year, Mars launched the Mars bar.

Today Mars continues to be a family business, now owned by fourth-generation Mars family members. The company is now run by non-family members.

Mars, Inc. is an American global manufacturer whose global brands include M&M’s, Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Mars bar, Dove, Milky Way, Skittles, and Twix. The company also makes Uncle Ben’s rice, pet food made under the Pedigree, Sheba, and Whiskas labels, Seeds of Change organic food, Klix and Flavia beverage systems, and owns the world’s largest chewing gum maker, Wm. Wrigley Company.

Mars, Inc. is #3 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. Mars has 80,000 employees and had $35 billion in revenue in 2017.

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