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Owner. Green family. Number of employees. 43,000+ (2020)[2] Website. www.hobbylobby.com. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., formerly Hobby Lobby Creative Centers, is an American retail company. It owns a chain of arts and crafts stores with a volume of over $5 billion in 2018. [1] The chain has 1,001 stores in 48 U.S. states.
By August 1972, the focus was on arts and crafts, and the business had thrived to such an extent that Green and his wife were able to open a 300 square-foot store in northwest Oklahoma City called Hobby Lobby. In 1975, Green left his 13-year career with TG&Y and opened a second Hobby Lobby location with 6,000 square feet of space. [2] [3]
Mart Green is the founder and CEO of Mardel Christian & Education and of Every Tribe Every Nation, and an heir to the Hobby Lobby family of companies founded by his father David Green. Mart Green's chain of Christian stores, Mardel, has 37 stores in seven US states and is headquartered in Oklahoma City. It is part of the Hobby Lobby group of ...
Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal. The Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal started in 2009 when representatives of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores received a large number of clay bullae and tablets originating in the ancient Near East. The artifacts were intended for the Museum of the Bible, funded by the Evangelical Christian Green family, which ...
Major companies based in Oklahoma City. Chesapeake Energy - Fortune 500 (163) [1] Continental Resources (NYSE) Devon Energy - Fortune 500 (270) and NYSE [2] Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores - Forbes Largest Private Companies (13) [3] OGE Energy - Fortune 1000 (523) and NYSE. Paycom - Fortune 100 (2) [4] (NYSE)
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Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014), is a landmark decision [1] [2] in United States corporate law by the United States Supreme Court allowing privately held for-profit corporations to be exempt from a regulation that its owners religiously object to, if there is a less restrictive means of furthering the law's interest, according to the provisions of the Religious Freedom ...