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Entrance to the Half Price Books Northwest Highway, the corporate headquarters, on E. Northwest Highway in Dallas, Texas Half Price Books in Berkeley, California. Founders Ken Gjemre (1921-2002) and Pat Anderson opened the first store in 1972 in a former laundromat in Dallas, Texas, filling the shelves with 2,000 books out of their personal libraries. [5]
Catterton took Restoration Holdings private on June 18, 2008. [8] That year, the company also launched its baby-and-child line. [9] In 2012, Restoration Hardware underwent an initial public offering, trading at $24 a share at its opening. [10] The company was renamed RH, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RH.
Half.com was a fixed-price online marketplace for books, textbooks, music, movies, video games, and video game consoles. It was acquired by eBay in 2000 and shut down in 2017, with the domain redirected to the eBay website. Half provided a platform where sellers could choose what price to sell their item for.
eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. (/ ˈ iː b eɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
In 2012, Conn's expanded into Arizona with a location in Tucson, Arizona, and later in July, they expanded to the Phoenix area with the opened a location in Mesa, Arizona. In 2014, they welcomed new states as Colorado, Tennessee, South Carolina and Mississippi. The company now has 125 retail locations ranging in a variety of states coast to coast.
In August 2017, McIngvale opened his stores to people affected by Harvey, a hurricane that flooded the city. [7]When Tropical Storm Imelda flooded Houston in 2019, McIngvale once again opened the doors of Gallery Furniture and partnered with Crisis Clean-Up to provide free meals and shelter at the North Freeway location.
Star Furniture, is an American home furnishing store headquartered in Houston, Texas that sells furniture, rugs, mattresses, draperies and accessories. [2] Star Furniture is the oldest operating furniture store in Texas and celebrated its 110th year in business in 2022. [3] Star Furniture is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
Rice Village is a shopping district in Houston, Texas, United States. Rice Village is a collection of shops, restaurants and pubs, situated about a half-mile west of the center of Rice University's 300-acre (1.2 km 2) campus. The core "Rice Village" extends over several city blocks, bounded by University Boulevard, Kirby Drive, Tangley Street ...