Thursday, July 29, 2010

Tulalip


The group of Native American people in western WA, US.

Tulalip's full name is Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Reservation.

Tulalip is from the tribes called Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Sauk-Suiattle, Samish,Stillguamish, Duwamish, Sammamish.

They spock the Straits Salish language.

The name became from the tribs fishing area.

Total population 9246.

It has a land area of 35.3 sq.

It was found at 1855, 155 years ago.

Their religion is Christianity, traditional tribal religion.

They usually use the languages Lushootseed, English.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Fanta


Fanta is a global brand of fruit-flavored carbonated.

Fanta is soft drinks from the Coca-Cola Company.

There are over 90 flavors worldwide.

It was found 68 years ago in 1942.

It was placed by Nazi Germany by Allies at World War II.

One of the people tried to find another brand like Coca-Cola.

The name became from Keith, "use their imagination" ("Fantasie" in German).

Fanta its at Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovia and some other countries.

Some of the flavers have diffrent marks and names.

The most used its by orange crush, and orange slice.

It has about 92000 employees.

Now the stock its 1.5 billion.


Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Wendy's


Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers is an international fast food.

It was found by Dave Thomas in 1969, 41 years ago.

It was found at Columbus, Ohio, United States and it headquartered at Dublin, Ohio at 2006.

Its the 3rd largest handburgers.

The fist handburgers are McDonald's 31,000+ locations and Burger King's 12,000+ locations.

The maneger of the company now its Triarc and Ardy's companys.

Anout 77% of the stores are franchised, meaning of bussines model.

The menu is hamburgers, chicken sandwich, French fries.

It has Big Mac or the Whopper like McDonald's.

It also has location in contrys like Argentina, Italy, Germany, Spain and more around the world.

The stock now its $2.469 billion.

It has 57000 employees.

6650 store location.

The name became by someones saying, the first modern-day, drive-thru window".

Its known for the milk shakes.

He made the store by opening hand made hamber and milk shakes to naybers.


Monday, July 26, 2010

Calvin Klein


Calvin Klein is a fashion brand.

It was found 42 years ago at 1968.

The headquarter now its at NY.

Its owned by Phillips-Van Heusen now that is a fashion brand.

The symble its CK.

It was found by a guy named Klein who opened a coat shop at one of the hotels in NY.

He opened the store with $10000.

A year after it was bilt at The hotel one of the head workers from Bonwit Teller (a brand of clothing), came out of the elevator on the wrong floor and he bought $50000 order.

From then on the brand Calvin Klein became known.

It has a line of men's and women's coats featured at the New York City store.

The owner, Klein was known as the supreme master of minimalism".

39 years ago in 1971 they started having sport clothing for womens.

2 years after the name became known for the biggest fashion show call Coty Award.

In 1977 they started having scarves, shoes, belts, furs, sunglasses, and sheets.

Klein was making $4 million.

Its known for the good jeans.

In 2008 it was the America's Next Top Male Model.

They got 100000 dollar for the show.

It has 12,000 stores in the U.S only.

It has about 420 employees.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Amazon.com


It was found by Jeff Bezos in 1994, 14 years ago.

Started selling online in 1995, 15 years ago.

First it had the name Cadabra.com.

It was first a book store but soon it started selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys.

The website also work in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China.

At 2009 it had the most used by UK for the musics.

It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.

Bezos wrote the business when they were moving from NY to Seattle.

The books are offer 200,000 titles.

He named it Amazon as the worlds largest river.

The goal was to have all the prodoct in alphabet order fom A-Z.

It was found in the state of WA.

The fist book that sold in Amazon was: - Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.

The symble for stock now its AMZN.

The stock now its $1.50 billion.

The company didnt accept any thing for 4 to 5 years at first.

The headquarter now its at Seattle's Beacon Hill.

One of the biggest compos in Seattle.

It has 24300 emploees.

It became known because of the online sale and having everything in alphaber order.




Thursday, July 22, 2010

Think Pink


Think Pink its a casual wear brand.

Its offering accessories, shoes, and bags for men, women, and children.

Now its owned by G.B company.

It was a footwear at first.

It owns brands such as T-Shoes, Dolomite, Rollerblade, Nordica Ski, and Nitro Snowboard.

It also has sport clothing too.

Think Pink is available at more than 400 stores or departments in some 15 countries across Europe and Asia, including Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong.

The first store in china opened at 2008.

The first store was at Italy in 1979, 31 years ago.

In 1979 some rock climbers started thinking about making a clothing brand for sport.

It became known for brand and fashion.

They chosed the name Think Pink because it was known as freedom at that time.

The headquarter now its at Treviso, Italy.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Gymboree


The Gymboree Corporation is Children's clothes & Toys company.

It was based in San Francisco, U.S.

It has about 900 stores in the U.S.

It has stores in United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Canada.

It also has nearly 500 Play and Music centers worldwide.

The symble for Gymboree is GYMB.

The stock for the market now its $702 million dollars.

Joan Barnes created the Gymboree Play and Music Program 24 years ago at 1986.

She made the play ground for kids and parents who wanted a place for their kids and people to take care of them.

From 2006 there are also stores around 30 countries in the world.

Its known for helping childrens and parents at music, exercise, art, and other activities as well as helping parents know how to participate in furthering their children's mental and physical

growth.

They also have classes for kids, the classes go up to age 6.

The brands are The Little Gym, Romp n' Roll, and My Gym.

The sizes range from birth to age twelve.

It has opened 580 Gymboree Retail, 80 Gymboree Outlet, 100 Janie & Jack, and 20 Crazy 8 stores in the United States.

Gymboree had clothing for women's clothing stores called Janeville until all locations closed by January 2007.

People say Gymboree is better than The Children's Place and Old Navy stores.

The store also sales things such as toys, musical instruments, and compact discs.

It has about 9500 emploees.



Monday, July 19, 2010

ALDO Groupe


The ALDO Groupe owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessory stores.

The company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec.

It was found 46 years ago at 1964.

The headquarter now its at Montreal.

It has about 1000 stores in the U.S and Canada.

It has ALDO outlet, ALDO kids, ALDO Liquidation and clearance stores.

The first store was found 38 years ago at 1972.

The fist store in the U.S was found 17 years ago at 1993 in Boston, Massachusetts.

The first international store opened in Israel at 1994.

It also has stores at Saudi Arabia.

It has stores around 44 countires.

The employees get $9 to $10 an hour.

It have 15000 emploees.

The name ALDO came from the name of owner Aldo Bensadoun.

It became papoular because of the high hills and the disine.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Old Navy


Is an American brand of clothing and Chain of stores owned by Gap.

It was found at San Francisco, California.

The Headquarter now its at Mission Bay in San Francisco.

Old Navy its made by Tom Wyatt and Dawn Robertson in 1994.

It was found 16 years ago at 1994.

At the first year it opened 57 stores.

Now it has more than 1000 stores in the U.S and Canada.

The biggest stores are now at NY, Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco.

The name Old Navy it became form a bar in Paris.

It has about 20 to 30 stores in Toronto and Montreal.

It has size 0 to 20 for mens in store.

It also have clothing for kids, and adult.

Now its $15.777billion for the stock.

It has 152000 Employees.

It became famouse because it is one of Gap brands and most people like the brand Gap and stile so they also like Old Navy.


Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Gap (clothing)


Gap its a clothing and accessories.

It found in San Francisco, California.

It was found 41 years ago in 1969 by Donal G. Fisher.

The compant has 5 primary brands: Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime, and Athleta.

It have about 135000 employees and has 3465 stores around the world.

Gap is the largest specialty apparel retailer in the U.S.

It has the best stock clothing in the U.S.

WHen Donald died at 2004, his son and wife toke care of Gap company.

The clothing company CEO want to get the company Gap.

The compay Levi's and LPs helped Gap to open the store.

They sold $2 million at the first year.

The headquarer now its at Burlingame, California.

One of the biggest store now its at Voorhess, New Jersey.

There is Gap for babys, Body, Maternity, Kids, Outlet and Generation.



Monday, July 12, 2010

Banana Republic (clothing)




Banana Republic is an American clothing brand.


It was found by Mel and Patricia Ziegler 32 years ago in 1978.


They were as a travel-themed clothing company.


The store was sold to Gap in 1983.


It have about 500 sotores in the U.S.


The majority of sales came from the hand made clothing.


There are about 26 stores in Canada.


The Gap store now its at Asia, Europe and the Middle East.


They are trying to have Banana Repubic in the same places too.


The stores are usually next to the malls or at the malls.


It has about 152000 employees.




















Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Talbots


Talbots is a women’s classic clothing, shoes and accessories.

Found 63 years ago in 1947.

The company is mostly known as the white shirts.

It was found at Hingham, Massachusetts and now is the headquarter in the U.S too.

Talbots started saleing J. Jill brand in 2009.

J.Jill is one of the graitest bussines clothing brand.

Talbots its also at Canada.

It has about 10000 employees.

It sale about 60% online.

It was from the husband and wife team of Rudolf and Nancy Talbot who opend their first store.

They opened it at a farm close to Boston.

Talbots is known as the red doors, color ful clothing.

Usually the new clothing show at NY magazin.

They sold the company 37 years ago to General Mills.

There is also some stores that Talbots has only deal with sale clothing.

In the sale stores there is also clothing for kids.

Talbots has about 19 catalogs from 2009.


Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Target


Target Corporation, usually known simply as Target.

Found 108 years ago (1902) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

48 years ago the company opened its first store in Roseville.

It is made by a big company called the Dayton Dry Goods Company.

The company have stores all over U.S but not one state, Vermont. They will open one at May 2010.

Target is the second store who people like after Walmart.

There is also Target at Australia too.

The owner was Reuben Simon Goodfellow but he sold the company to George Dayton.

In 1956 they opened stores at the south and they called it retail chain.

It have about 351,000 (2009) Employees.

It have clothing, housewares, food.

The headquarters are Minneapolis and Minnesota.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Nivea Cream


Nivea is a global skin- and body-care brand.

Its owned by the German company Beiersdorf.

The company began in 1911 (99 years ago) when Beiersdorf developed a water-in-oil emulsifier as a skin cream with Eucerit.

The company's owner, Oskar Troplowitz, named it Nivea, from the Latin word niveus/nivea/niveum (meaning snow-white).

During the 1930s, Beiersdorf began producing products such as tanning oils, shaving creams, shampoo and facial toners.

Its there from World War II.

The brand its now in many countries around the world.