Sunday, March 27, 2011

99 Ranch Market

Is an Asian American supermarket chain. It is owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc. It was founded at Buena Park, California. 99 Ranch has 34 stores. It has only stores at California, Nevada, Washington, and Texas. Most things of the store come from Taiwan. It was founded by a Taiwanist person. It also has stores at Canada. It has locations at Vancouver area, as well as in Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. It was founded 27 years ago at 1984. First it had the name 99 Price Market, after copple of years they changed it to 99 Ranch Market. The company's slogan is For 100 We Try Harder. Over the years, 99 Ranch Market has developed into the largest Asian supermarket chain. The chain is currently headquartered in Buena Park, California. Its the Seattle's largest market. It has 2 stores in Seattle.

Monday, March 14, 2011

IKEA

It was found at is a privately held, Swedish. 

Its full name is Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd.

It has home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, appliances and home accessories.

The company is now the world's largest furniture retailer.

IKEA was founded in 1943, 84 years ago.

It was founded by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden.

It headquartered at Leiden, Netherlands. 

Its Worldwide.

It has 127,000 employees.

They sale bBreakfast at IKEA also. 

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Valero Energy Corp.

is a Fortune 500 international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products.

It was founded at  San Antonio, Texas, United States.

The company owns and operates 15 refineries throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean .

 2.8 million barrels per day, 10 ethanol plants with a combined production capacity of 1.1 billion gallons per year, and a 50-megawatt wind farm.

it is in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean under the Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock, Ultramar and Beacon brands.

Valero was created on January 1, 1980, 31 years ago.

It has 21000 employees.

Its only at North America.

it was founded by William R. Klesse.


Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Citigroup

It is a major American financial services.

It was founded at NY.

It was founded at 1812, 199 years ago. 

It headquartered at NY.

Citigroup Inc. has the world's largest financial services network.

140 countries with approximately 16,000 offices worldwide.

The company employs approximately 260,000 staff around the world.

It holds over 200 million customer accounts in more than 140 countries.

 It is a primary dealer in US Treasury securities.

It was founded by Richard D. Parsons.

 International Banking Corporation helped it become the first American bank to surpass $1 billion in assets.

The company Travelers  is also from this company. 


Tuesday, March 8, 2011

General Electric


Its American multinational conglomerate.

It was founded at NY.

In 2010, Forbes ranked GE as the world's second largest company after JPMorgan Chase.

The company has 287,000 employees around the world.

Its worldwide.

It was founded 119 years ago at 1892.

It was founded by  Thomas Edison Elihu Thomson.

It has gas, oil, water, energy, finance and more. 

The company is now  $4.8 billion.



Monday, March 7, 2011

ExxonMobil

The full name is Exxon Mobil Corporation.
Is an American multinational oil and gas corpotation.
It was founded on 1999, 12 years ago.
Its headquartered at Irving, Texas.
Its one of the largest pulicly traded companies in the world.
It was number one or two the past five years.
It also has hundereds of other small oil companies.
It has over 82000 employees 2006.
Now it has over 83600 employees.
It was founded by John D. Rockefeller.
Before he had Standard Oil company at 1870.
The comany now its about $73.7 billion.
It was founded at the NY.
Its a worldwide company.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Time Warner

Its the second biggest entertainment conglomerate in terms of revenue.

Its behind Disney and ahead of News Corporation and Viacom.

Its the world's largest media conglomerate.

It headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City.

Time Warner is one of the biggest in film, television and publishing.

They talk about it in CNN, BBC, NY news and more.

It was founded 21 years ago, at 1990.

It was founded by Jefferey L.

It has 150 titles worldwide.

He found out it will be good to have 2 or more companies work together.

It has 31000 employees.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Kroger

The Kroger is an American retail supermarket.

It was founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883, 128 years ago.

It was founded at Cincinnati, Ohio.

It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009.

It is the country's largest grocery store chain.

Still Wal-Mart being the largest.

 As of 2010, Kroger operated, either directly or through its subsidiaries 3,619 stores.

Kroger's headquarters are centralized in downtown Cincinnati.

In addition to the grocery department, they contain a Fred Meyer Jewelers, Starbucks, Donato's Pizza, and an in-store bank, as well as sections for toys, appliances, home furnishings, and bed and bath, something that Big Bear once had in their stores in the Columbus area.

It also has Drug center.