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.