Gamestop Gift Card Corporation (NYSE: GME) is an American video game and entertainment software retailer. The company, whose headquarters are in Grapevine, Texas (a suburb of Dallas), United States, operates 6,200 retail stores throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Austria, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden and in the United Kingdom. GameStop will open around 400 new stores for the 2009 business year.
The company operates retail stores under the name GameStop, EB Games, Micromania and MovieStop. In addition, the company runs two e-commerce websites, GameStop.com and EBgames.com, and also Game Informer magazine, GameStop's proprietary video and computer game publication. In addition to video and computer games, GameStop sells magazines, strategy guides, entertainment DVDs (which as of late 2008 stopped), and other related merchandise. A major source of the company's profit is also buying used games and films from its customers and selling them back at an increase. Approximately 48% of Gamestop Gift Card revenue is from its used products sales (based on the quarter that ended Nov. 1 2008). A new store concept called MovieStop, which focuses on selling movies rather than games, is currently building and operating stores in the southeastern United States, including the Dallas area.
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century.
Firestone was born in his family's farm house on December 20, 1868, in the small town of Columbiana, Ohio, the second of three children, to Benjamin Firestone, a farmer, and A. Catherine Flickinger. The Firestone ancestors were German immigrants named Feuerstein. After graduating from Columbiana High School, Firestone worked for the Columbus Buggy Company in Columbus, Ohio before starting his own company in 1890, making rubber tires for carriages. In 1895 he married Idabelle Smith, a composer and songwriter. They had six children: Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Russell Allen Firestone, Leonard Firestone, Raymond Firestone, Roger Stanley Firestone, and Elizabeth Firestone. In 1904 Firestone joined Henry Ford to make rubber tires for the newly popular automobiles. The Ford-Firestone corporate marriage was later cemented when Henry's grandson William Clay Ford wed Martha Firestone, granddaughter of Harvey, who then became parents of current Ford Motor Company Chairman, William Clay Ford, Jr. The farmhouse where Firestone was born is now located in Greenfield Village (Dearborn, MI), a 90-acre (360,000 m2) historical site founded by Henry Ford. Firestone was concerned both with the manufacture of tires and with securing supplies of rubber from trees: At one point, the company had a rubber plantation in Liberia that covered more than 4,000 square kilometers (1 million acres). During World War II the company was called on by the U.S. Government to make artillery shells, aluminum kegs for food transport and other rubberized military products.
Pennzoil is an oil company founded in Oil City, Pennsylvania. In 1963, South Penn Oil merged with Zapata Petroleum to become Pennzoil. During the 1970s, the company moved its offices to Houston, Texas. It was then headquartered in Pennzoil Place, a recognizable skyscraper designed by the architect Philip Johnson. In 1998, the company merged with onetime rival Quaker State to form Pennzoil-Quaker State. In 2002, the Royal Dutch/Shell Group purchased Pennzoil-Quaker State to form SOPUS--Shell Oil Products US.
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Chili's Grill & Bar is a restaurant chain founded by Larry Lavine. The chain has over 1400 casual dining restaurants, mostly located in the United States and Canada. Chili's is currently owned by Brinker International, which also owns On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina, Maggiano's Little Italy, and Romano's Macaroni Grill.
Chili's first location, a converted postal station on Greenville Avenue in Dallas, Texas, opened on March 13, 1975. Lavine's concept was to create an informal full-service dining restaurant with a menu featuring different types of hamburgers offered at an affordable price. The brand proved successful, and by the early 1980s there were 22 more Chili's locations in the region, all featuring similar Southwest decor.
In 1983, Lavine sold the company to restaurant executive Norman E. Brinker, formerly of the Pillsbury restaurant group. Chili's now has locations in all 50 U.S. states and 24 international locations.
