Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain. Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News "Innovator of the Year" award, and was named one of Newsweek's "50 Men Who Changed America." Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is on the board of Anti-Aging Games. In 2012 he founded an educational software company called Brainrush, that is using video game technology in educational software.
Distribution is one of the four elements of the marketing mix. Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for the consumer or business user who needs it. This can be done directly by the producer or service provider, or using indirect channels with distributors or intermediaries. The other three elements of the marketing mix are product, pricing, and promotion.
The marketing mix is a foundation model. The marketing mix has been defined as the "set of marketing tools that the firm uses to pursue its marketing objectives in the target". Thus the marketing mix refers to four broad levels of marketing decision, namely: product, price, promotion, and place. Marketing practice has been occurring for millennia, but marketing theory emerged in the early twentieth century. The contemporary marketing mix, or the 4 Ps, which has become the dominant framework for marketing management decisions, was first published in 1960. In services marketing, an extended marketing mix is used, typically comprising 7 Ps, made up of the original 4 Ps extended by process, people, and physical evidence. Occasionally service marketers will refer to 8 Ps, comprising these 7 Ps plus performance.
GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and wireless services retailer. The company is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, United States, a suburb of Dallas, and operates 7,267 retail stores throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. The company's retail stores primarily operate under the GameStop, EB Games, ThinkGeek and Micromania brands.
The Charles Schwab Corporation is a bank and brokerage firm based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1971 by Charles R. Schwab. It is ranked 14th on the list of largest banks in the United States and it is also one of the largest brokerage firms in the United States. The company offers an electronic trading platform to trade financial assets including common stocks, preferred stocks, futures contracts, exchange-traded funds, options, mutual funds, and fixed income investments. It also provides margin lending, and cash management services, as well as services through registered investment advisers.
Navteq was an American Chicago-based provider of geographic information system (GIS) data and a major provider of base electronic navigable maps. The company was acquired by Nokia in 2007/2008, and fully merged into Nokia in 2011 to form part of the Here business unit.
EzyDVD, founded in Adelaide, Australia in 1999 by Jim Zavos, is Australia's largest online specialist DVD retailer.
A mission statement is a short statement of why an organization exists, what its overall goal is, identifying the goal of its operations: what kind of product or service it provides, its primary customers or market, and its geographical region of operation. It may include a short statement of such fundamental matters as the organization's values or philosophies, a business's main competitive advantages, or a desired future state—the "vision".
Sweetwater is the largest online retailer of musical instruments and pro audio equipment in the United States. Located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sweetwater's campus includes its corporate offices and warehousing facilities, along with recording studios, two performance venues, a music academy, Sweetwater's only retail store, and numerous customer and employee amenities.
Consumer Cellular is an American postpaid mobile virtual network operator founded by John Marick and Greg Pryor in October 1995. The company offers cellphones, no-contract cellphone plans, and accessories with a focus on users age 50-plus. Including its corporate headquarters in Portland, Oregon, Consumer Cellular is completely U.S. based, employing more than 1,800 people at two additional locations in Phoenix, Arizona, and a support center in Redmond, Oregon.
Extron Logistics, LLC is an American company that provides solutions to supply chain operations.
Anytime Fitness is a 24-hour health and fitness club headquartered in Woodbury, Minnesota. The company operates over 44,000 franchised locations in 50 countries. The gym facilities are open 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year. Chuck Runyon, Dave Mortensen, and Jeff Klinger founded Anytime Fitness in 2002. Runyon is the CEO of the company. According to Forbes, Anytime Fitness was the fastest growing health club franchise in 2014. In 2015, Entrepreneur Magazine ranked Anytime Fitness first on its global franchise list.
Chaos.com was an Australian online retailer based in Melbourne, that sells CDs, DVDs, Games, Books and Music Downloads over the Internet. Similar to Amazon.com, Chaos.com ships to all countries around the world. The website was founded in Sydney, Australia by its CEO Rob Appel in 1995, it was the first Australian retailer to sell music over the Internet.
Established in 1979, Advisors Asset Management, Inc. (AAM) has been a resource that provides investment products and portfolio support to broker-dealers and advisors. They work with both independent and large Wall Street firms providing access to fixed income investments, structured products, unit investment trusts, mutual funds, and separately managed accounts now exchange-traded funds. Additionally, the firm provides advisors with a variety of financial tools and services including portfolio reviews and analysis, capital markets and institutional fixed income trading, and education.
Kenexa, an IBM Company, provides employment and retention services for hiring and retaining workers. This includes recruitment process outsourcing onboarding solutions, employee assessment, abilities assessment for employment candidates ; and Kenexa Interview Builder, a structured interview archive with example questions.
Carenet Healthcare Services is an American provider of healthcare support services, healthcare navigation services, care management programs and consumer engagement solutions to private and public institutions including healthcare companies, hospital systems, employer groups, the US Military and government-sponsored programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Smashwords, based in Los Gatos, California, is an e-book-distribution platform founded by Mark Coker for independent authors and publishers. The company began public operation in 2008.
XPO Logistics, Inc. is a U.S. corporation and one of the world's 10 largest providers of transportation and logistics services. It operates as a third-party provider or 3PL in 32 countries and has approximately 50,000 customers, including 67 of the Fortune 100. XPO's corporate headquarters is located in Greenwich, Connecticut. Its European headquarters is located in Lyon, France.
Maximum Games is a boutique publisher and distributor of interactive video games. Founded in 2009, Maximum Games publishes video games on all leading platforms. Notable titles include: The Golf Club Collector's Edition, Alekhine's Gun, Farming Simulator 17, Mark McMorris Infinite Air, Loading Human, and The Technomancer.
Zentail is an ecommerce technology company based in Columbia, Maryland, USA that offers software and revenue optimization services to online retailers and brands. Zentail's cloud-based software integrates with Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Jet.com, eBay.com, Google Shopping, BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, SkuVault, Fishbowl Inventory, FedEx Supply Chain, Rakuten Super Logistics, Shipwire, Fulfillment Works and ShipBob.
