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Liberty Interactive Corporate Office

Liberty Interactive Corporation is an American media holding company.

Liberty Media began as spin-off of TCI, an American cable-television group. Liberty Interactive was founded as a division of Liberty Media in 1998 to take advantage of new technologies such as interactive television services.

In 1999 AT&T bought out TCI, spinning off Liberty Media in 2000. In 2001 Liberty Media filed a $38.4 IPO, the largest IPO in history at the time.

In 2001 Liberty Media acquired the TCI spun-off companies Liberty Digital and Liberty Satellite & Technology.

In 2005 Liberty Media combined with UnitedGlobalCom to create Liberty Global.

In 2007 Liberty Media negotiated a deal with Time Warner that gave Time Warner control of DirecTV and the Atlanta Braves baseball team.

In 2011 Liberty Media changed its name to Liberty Interactive Corporation.

L Brands Corporate Office

L Brands, Inc (formerly known as Limited Brands Inc. and The Limited Inc.) was founded in 1963 when Leslie Wexner opened a store with a $10,000 loan. He named the store The Limited because it sold only younger women’s clothing, in contrast to his parents’ general merchandise store. Wexner became chairman after his father’s death in 1975, and later CEO.

The Limited Brands went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1969.

During the 1980’s the company made numerous acquisitions: Victoria’s Secret in 1982, 207 Lane Bryant stores in 1982, 798 Lerner stores and one Henri Bendel store in 1985, and 25 Abercrombie & Fitch stores in 1988.

The company owned Abercrombie & Fitch until it was spun-off into a publicly-traded company in 1996.

In the 1990’s the company developed Limited Too, Bath & Body Works, Structure, and Victoria’s Secret Beauty.

In 2007 Limited Brands transferred 75% ownership of its flagship The Limited chain to buyout firm Sun Capital Partners Inc. In 2010, the remaining shares were sold to the same firm.

L Brands, Inc. is part of the S&P 500, the Fortune 500, has 91,000 employees, and had $10.36 billion in revenue in 2011.

Williams-Sonoma Corporate Office

Williams-Sonoma was founded by Charles E. Williams in 1956 when he began selling restaurant-quality kitchenware for homes in his store in Sonoma, California. In 1971 he began to publish a mail-order catalog.

By 1972 he was sending out thousands of catalogs and had taken out a business loan to open more stores.

The company went public in 1983 and bought Pottery Barn from Gap, Inc. In 1999 Williams-Sonoma introduced Pottery Barn Kids, then PBTeen in 2003.

Williams-Sonoma products have been featured on several television shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Sex and the City, American Dad!, Friends, Frasier, The King of Queens, and Weeds.

Today Williams-Sonoma sells high-end kitchenwares, furniture, linens, housewares, home furnishings, specialty foods, soaps, and lotions. The company operates over 500 retail stores, has 26,000 employees, and had $4.042 billion in revenue in 2012.

Time Warner Corporate Office

Time Warner Inc. is the combination of three companies: Warner Communications, Inc., Time Inc. and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

In 1923 Time magazine deputed as the first weekly news magazine in the United States.

In 1927 Warner Bros. released the first feature-length talking picture, “The Jazz Singer.” Warner Communications was formed in 1972 as the holding company of Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Music Group.

In 1976 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. pioneered the basic cable business model.

Time, Inc. and Warner Communications, Inc. merged in 1989 in a $14.9 billion cash and stock deal.

Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting, Inc in 1996.

In 2000 AOL and Time Warner merged to become AOL Time Warner. The merger proved to be a disaster and after almost a decade of suffering losses in stock price and profits, AOL was spun-off in 2009.

Today Time Warner has major operations in film, television, and publishing. The company has numerous subsidiaries, including New Line Cinema, Time Inc., HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW Television Network, TheWB.com, Warner Bros., Kid’s WB, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Adult Swim, CNN, DC Comics, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network Studios, Hanna-Barbera, and Castle Rock Entertainment.

The company announced in 2013 that they would divest Time, Inc. Time went public in June of 2014.

In addition to their communications and cable company, Time Warner also owns a great deal of real estate, including several buildings within Rockefeller Center, an office tower next to their main office, which is the headquarters of CNN, along with a twin tower complex on the edge of central park, which the company uses for additional office space.

Time Warner has 34,000 employees worldwide and had $28.11 billion in revenue in 2015.

In May of 2016, Charter Cable acquired both Bright House and Time Warner Cable in a $65 billion mega deal. Charter Cable says that over the next few years, it will slowly remove the Time Warner and Bright House names in place of their own logo.