When was the Global Equipment Company, a materials handler entered direct marketing which previously owned TigerDirect?
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TigerDirect TigerDirect is an El Segundo, California-based online retailer dealing in electronics, computers, and computer components that caters to business and corporate customers. Previously owned by Systemax, which is known for its acquisitions of the intellectual property of the defunct U.S. retail chains Circuit City and CompUSA, and relaunching them as online retailers. The two brands were subsequently shuttered and consolidated into the TigerDirect site. In 2015, TigerDirect phased out all of its remaining brick-and-mortar retail operations, and PCM Inc. acquired Systemax's online North American technology retail business.
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Systemax The company was founded in 1949 as Global Equipment Company, a materials handler. It first entered direct marketing in 1972 and began marketing computer equipment in 1981. It changed its name to Global Directmail in 1995 and to Systemax in 1999.
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Unilever Unilever ( ) is a Dutch-British transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands and London, United Kingdom. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world's largest consumer goods company measured by 2012 revenue, and is also the world's largest producer of food spreads, such as margarine. It is Europe’s 7th-most valuable company. Unilever is one of the oldest multinational companies; its products are available in around 190 countries.
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GE Power GE Power (formerly known as GE Energy) is an American energy techniques company, owned by General Electric. GE Power is the largest energy techniques and selling energy company in the world.
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Tiger Management Tiger Management Corp., also known as "The Tiger Fund," is a family office and hedge fund founded by Julian Robertson. The fund began investing in 1980 and was closed to outside investors in March 2000. It continues to operate today in direct public equity investments and seeding new investment funds.
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G&amp;G Engineering G&G Engineering Ltd is an Irish owned company specializing in metal pressed and stamped components, plastic injection mouldings (including insert-moulding and over-moulding) as well as automated assembly. The main production facility is in the Republic of Ireland and the Chinese office in its supporting role manages on behalf of the Irish operation and a worldwide clients base the purchase and build of plastic injection mould and press tooling as well as special purpose machinery in China.
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GTS Technologies GTS Technologies is a paint finishing and mechanical handling systems company, registered in Wolverhampton, England. It was one of the first surface finishing businesses to enter the Russian automotive paint finishing market. As an international business, it has worked for manufacturers including Aston Martin, BMW, Ford and Toyota. It is one of only two remaining British paint finishing specialists in the high end automotive sector.
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Seaboard Corporation Seaboard Corporation is a diverse multinational agribusiness and transportation conglomerate with integrated operations in several industries. In the United States, the company mainly engages in pork production and processing and ocean transportation. Internationally, Seaboard is primarily engaged in commodity merchandising, grain processing, sugar production and electrical power generation.
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Global Sweeteners Global Sweeteners Holdings Limited () is a listed food company in Hong Kong. It is involved in the manufacture and sale of corn-based sweetener products in China, including corn syrup, corn syrup solids, and sugar alcohol.
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Fushi Copperweld Fushi Copperweld, Inc. (Simplified Chinese: 傅氏科普威) is a Sino-American company based in Beijing, China. It was formed from the acquisition of an American wire company, Copperweld Bimetallics LLC, by Chinese manufacturer Fushi International in October 2007. The combined company is the largest manufacturer and supplier of bimetallic electrical conductor products in the world by volume. Its main products are wire, stranded electrical cable, and busbar made from its Copperweld brand copper-clad steel ("CCS") or copper-clad aluminium ("CCA"). In addition to its Chinese and American operations, Fushi Copperweld maintains a production facility in Telford, England, and a distribution hub in Liège, Belgium.
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Direct Entertainment Direct Entertainment is a Hollywood, California-based entertainment production and management company, founded by manager/producer Trevor Chowning. Clients include Orson Welles protégé Sasha Welles, writer Russ Littlefield, Larry Tee and DJ Slugo. Former clients include many reality TV stars such as the cast of MTV's "Road Rules" and "The Real World" and Johnny Cash's former backing band, The Tennessee Three.
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Solairedirect Solairedirect is a global renewable energy company focused on solar power. Headquartered in Paris, the company is the main solar power producer in France and has also international operations in the US, Chile, India and South Africa. In develops, builds, owns, and operates solar power plants. The company announced its acquisition by Engie in July 2015 after it had pulled out of its IPO process the company had announced in April 2015.
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Britannia Industries Britannia Industries Limited (A "WADIA" Enterprise) is an Indian food-products corporation based in Bengaluru, India. It sells its "Britannia" and "Tiger" brands of biscuit throughout India. Britannia has an estimated market share of 38%.
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Watsco Watsco, Inc. is the largest distributor of air conditioning, heating and refrigeration equipment and related parts and supplies (HVAC/R) in the United States. Watsco was founded more than 60 years ago as a manufacturer of parts, components and tools used in the HVAC/R industry. Under the leadership of its current CEO, Albert H. Nahmad, from 1973 to 1988 Watsco grew from US$5 million in revenues to US$25 million. In 1989, the company shifted its focus from manufacturing to distribution by acquiring Gemaire Distributors Inc., a South Florida-based Rheem distributor. By 1997, Watsco added other OEMs to the mix and moved into commercial refrigeration as a result of the acquisition of Baker Distributing Company. Watsco divested its manufacturing business in 1998, selling it to International Comfort Products Corporation, now part of Carrier Corporation (Carrier). Revenues increased from US$64.1 million in 1989 to US$4.2 billion in 2016 via a strategy of acquiring companies with established market position and subsequently building revenues and profit through a combination of adding locations, products, services and other initiatives.
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USG Corporation USG Corporation, also known as United States Gypsum Corporation, is an American company which manufactures construction materials, most notably drywall and joint compound. The company is the largest distributor of wallboard in the United States and the largest manufacturer of gypsum products in North America. It is also a major consumer of synthetic gypsum, a byproduct of flue-gas desulfurization.
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Dowty Group Dowty Group was a leading British manufacturer of aircraft equipment. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but was acquired by TI Group in 1992.
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Lancs Industries Lancs Industries is a manufacturer of protective clothing, containments, gloveboxes, enclosures, lead shielding, and other supplies used for reducing risk and increasing safety of workers in potentially hazardous environments.
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Gadiv Petrochemical Industries Gadiv Petrochemical Industries Ltd. גדיב תעשיות פטרוכימיה בע"מ, is an Israeli petrochemical company headquartered in Haifa, Israel. The company manufactures and markets over 500 thousand tons of petrochemical products each year including aromatics, aliphatic solvents and intermediates for the chemical, pharmaceutical, plastic and food industries. Gadiv is wholly owned by Oil Refineries Ltd.
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Shanghai Jahwa Shanghai Jahwa United Co., Ltd. () () China's largest domestically-owned manufacturer of daily-used personal chemical products. It is principally engaged in the research, development, manufacture and distribution of daily-used chemical products. The Company provides personal cleaning and care products, cosmetics, household cleaning products and perfumes, among others, with brands named Liushen, MAXAM, Jia An, HERBORIST, CHINFIE and GF. The Company also involves in the provision of tourism and restaurant services. It operates its businesses primarily in domestic market.
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Nutreco Nutreco N.V. is a Dutch producer of animal nutrition, fish feed and processed meat products. It has about 100 production facilities in more than 30 countries, and eight research centers. The company was founded in 1994 after a Cinven-backed management buyout of the feed and nutrition division of BP. Nutreco was listed on Euronext Amsterdam from 1997 until 2015, when the company was delisted following its acquisition by SHV Holdings.
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Global Supply Chain Management In commerce, Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is defined as the distribution of goods and services throughout a trans-national companies' global network in order to maximize profit and minimize waste. Essentially, global supply chain management is the same as supply chain management, but it focuses on companies and organizations that are trans-national. Global supply chain management has six main areas of concentration: logistics management, competitor orientation, customer orientation, supply chain coordination, supply management, and operations management. These six areas of concentration can be divided into four main areas: marketing, logistics, supply management, and operations management. Successful management of a global supply chain also requires complying with various international regulations set by a variety of non-governmental organizations (e.g. The United Nations).
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Globeride Globeride, Inc. (formerly Daiwa Seiko Corporation) is a Japanese company that produces fishing equipment in addition to tennis, golf and biking gear. Globeride's fishing products, sold under the Daiwa brand, account for the majority of its sales. The company also offers licensed Prince brand tennis gear, GIII brand golf gear, Bottecchia bicycles, and other outdoor products. Globeride, founded in 1958, operates from offices throughout Japan and internationally from subsidiaries in Australia, China, France, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, and the US (Daiwa Corporation).