Who co- founded one of the stores that bought out some of the Focus DIY chain?
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Great Mills (DIY) Great Mills was a large DIY chain, consisting of around 98 stores across the United Kingdom. In December 2000, the business was bought by Focus DIY, which in turn entered administration in May 2011, with all stores closing by July 2011. Most Focus DIY stores have been bought, some by B&Q, Wickes and B&M Bargains (B&M Homestore).
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B&amp;Q B&Q plc is a British multinational DIY and home improvement retailing company, headquartered in Eastleigh, England, United Kingdom and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc. Founded by Richard Block and David Quayle in 1969 originally as Block & Quayle, the retail chain offers over 40,000 products across 300 stores and online.
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Now &amp; Zen Now & Zen, Inc. is an American company founded by Steve McIntosh in January 1995. Based in Boulder, Colorado. The target market for the firm's brand is the demographic known as the "Cultural Creatives," a progressive segment of American society that has been responsible for the substantial growth of the natural foods industry. McIntosh had previously worked as an executive in the natural foods industry and sought to create consumer electronic products that would appeal to this same demographic.
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Focus Bikes Focus Bikes is a bicycle manufacturer that has its administration and production facilities based in Cloppenburg, Germany and builds sport bicycles such as racing bicycles and mountain bicycles.
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Ragstock (clothing retailer) Ragstock is a chain of stores in the Midwest United States in the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota. In 2015, it expanded out of the Midwest, opening 3 stores in Colorado. It is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Though it does sell new clothing, it is popular for selling used or "recycled clothing."
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Tara Eden Pearl Tara Eden Pearl is an American entrepreneur, business strategist and real estate executive who has founded several companies. She designed and manufactured a line of furniture pieces, distributed though wholesale channels as well as her own retail chain stores.
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John Mackey (businessman) John Mackey (born August 15, 1953) is an American businessman. He is the current CEO of Whole Foods Market, which he co-founded in 1980. Named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003, Mackey is a strong supporter of free market economics, has strong anti-union views, and co-wrote the best-selling book "Conscious Capitalism", which was released in 2013.
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MicroAge MicroAge (NASDAQ: MICA ) was an American technology sales and service company based in Tempe, Arizona founded in 1976 by Jeffrey D. McKeever and Alan P. Hald, originally as part of Paul Terrell's chain of dealerships and franchises under the brand "The Byte Shop".
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Payless DIY Payless DIY was the name of a chain of DIY stores in the UK during the 1980s.
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Camera World Camera World was a retailer of photographic equipment and photofinishing services based in Portland, Oregon, United States, and founded in 1977. Since 2002, it has been a brand of Ritz Camera & Image, but prior to that time it was an independent company. In the mid-1990s, it was one of the largest mail-order retailers of photographic and audio equipment in the nation. The company's revenues totalled $80 million in 1998, of which $16 million were from online sales. Revenues grew to $115.7 million in 1999 (equivalent to $  million in 2016 ), and the company relocated its administrative offices and inventory to a new facility in Beaverton, Oregon, the following year. The company's only brick-and-mortar store, in downtown Portland, as well as its Internet business were sold in 2002 to Ritz Camera, which continued to operate them under the Camera World name. Ritz, in turn, was acquired by C&A Marketing in 2012, but has retained the Camera World name as a Ritz brand, for both the store and the Internet business. The store closed on January 21, 2016.
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Hy-Vee Hy-Vee is an employee-owned chain of more than 240 supermarkets located throughout the Midwestern United States in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Hy-Vee was founded in 1930 by Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg in Beaconsfield, Iowa, in a small brick building known as the Beaconsfield Supply Store, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Pioneer Goods Co. Pioneer Goods Co. is a Boston-based home goods store founded in July 2014. The South End shop, owned by Justin Power, specializes in Rustic Americana décor and furniture.
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Splash Universe Splash Universe is a subsidiary of Focus Hospitality Services, LLC, a developer, owner, and operator of hotels and resorts in the United States founded in 1984. Both Focus Hospitality and Splash Universe are headquartered in Sarasota, Florida. Focus developed the brand "Splash Universe Water Park Resorts" as a full-service, value-priced waterpark for families with children.
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Focus.com Focus.com was a business focused social networking platform and source of technology expertise. By September 2010, it comprised over 850,000 Members and 5,000 Business Experts. Focus members could freely access expert research in diverse areas such as Information Technology, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Small Business, and Human Resources. Members also could get their business questions answered by experts in the community in the site’s Q & A and Virtual Summit sections.
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Good Guys (American company) The Good Guys was a chain of consumer electronics retail stores with 71 stores in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. The company was headquartered in Brisbane, California in the Dakin Building in the early 1990s and subsequently in Alameda, California until it was bought in late 2003 by CompUSA. The Good Guys was founded in 1973 by Ron Unkefer on Chestnut Street, San Francisco. By 2006, all of the company's stores had closed.
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People Water People Water is a for-profit, care-based company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company was co-founded by Jef Holm and Cody Barker. The main goal of the company is to provide clean water to people who are in need of it. When People Water sells a bottle of water they claim that an equal amount of clean water will be given to a person in need. The idea and structure of the company are very similar to that of Toms Shoes.
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Dixy Chicken Dixy Chicken is a fast food chain that specializes in halal chicken. The company was founded by two British Pakistanis who offered a halal version of products found in McDonald's and KFC. It is owned by a company in England named SABT2 Limited. The company was founded in 1986, and has 110 outlets within the United Kingdom.
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Meijer Meijer, Inc. ( ) is a regional American supercenter chain with its corporate headquarters in Walker, Michigan, in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. Founded in 1934 as a supermarket chain, Meijer is credited with pioneering the modern supercenter concept in 1962. About half of the company's 200 stores are located in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, with additional locations in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Meijer has no affiliation with Fred Meyer. The chain was ranked No. 19 on Forbes' 2015 list of "America's Largest Private Companies" and 19 in Fortune's 2008 "The 35 largest U.S. private companies". In 2016, "Supermarket News" ranked Meijer No. 15 in the 2016 Top 75 U.S. & Canadian Food Retailers & Wholesalers. Based on 2015 revenue, Meijer is the 26th-largest retailer in the United States.
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WinCo Foods WinCo Foods, Inc. is a privately held, majority employee-owned American supermarket chain based in Boise, Idaho with retail stores in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington. It previously operated stores as Waremart Food Centers and Cub Foods (under a franchise agreement) until 1999. As of August 2017, it has 117 retail stores and five distribution centers with over 15,000 employees.
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Reiss (brand) Reiss ( ) is a UK-based fashion brand and retail store chain owned and run by the founder, David Reiss. The brand produces men's and women's clothing. It has 160 stores in 15 countries.
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Bi-Rite Market Bi-Rite Market is a grocery store in San Francisco, California, owned and operated by chef Sam Mogannam, who had previously worked at Jardinière in the city. He and his brother Raphael took over the grocery store from his family in 1997, and began to sell prepared foods using locally grown produce, which he advocates. Mogannam spoke at TEDxPresidio 2012 on reinventing capitalism. "Fast Company" profiled him as one of the 100 most creative people in business for 2012. The market runs a non-profit community food education project, 18 Reasons. The store is a pioneer in the new farm-to-grocery store movement, and has published a book, "Eat Good Food" (Ten Speed Press). Whole Foods Market has sent staff to the store to adopt practices from there. The store opened a second location, in the Divisadero Street Commercial District, in the Western Addition neighborhood, in 2013.
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Focus Designs Focus Designs is an American based designer and distributor of self-balancing unicycles. It is known as the first company to build and release the first commercially available self-balancing unicycle. The company appeared in a 2012 episode of the Shark Tank where it was offered funding from the Sharks.