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In 1971 Leisure Dynamics broke the company in two, moved the model production to Minnesota, and left the engine production in Santa Ana, California. In 1976 Leisure Dynamics changed the company name to "Cox Hobbies Inc." In 1980 Leisure Dynamics filed for bankruptcy, taking Cox Hobbies Inc. with them. In 1981 Leroy Cox died on September 22, at ...
Upon Jim Cox Jr.'s death in 1974, he left his two sisters, Anne Cox Chambers and Barbara Cox, in control of 95% of the privately-owned company. [7] In 1982, CBC moved its headquarters to the Atlanta area and changed its name to Cox Communications, Inc. The company was eventually consolidated into Cox Enterprises.
The company, originally named The L. M. Cox Manufacturing Co, Inc., was founded in 1945 by the machinist Roy Cox in Placentia, California.Cox grew up in and around his father's bicycle shop, and he developed an interest in mechanical devices.
The subsidiary company, Cox Broadcasting Corporation (unrelated to the Cox Media Group, which focuses on radio stations and television stations), was not officially formed until 1964, when it was established as a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The company was renamed to Cox Communications in 1982.
The company said it intended to focus on larger markets or smaller markets that could be clustered together with other CMG properties. In April 2013, CMG launched the online-only new site Rare.us as a conservative media source, originally with the tagline "Red is the Center", and more recently "America's News Feed". [10]
In 1932, Henze rented a 3rd floor loft on 492 North Third Street in Philadelphia from a general machinist firm, William Schmitz & Company. [2] There he completed his first two reel designs, the Model F and Model K. In February 1933, the first Penn reels were sold to the Miller Auto Supply Company in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Encouraged by the ...
Cox Enterprises, a media and communications company Cox Communications, cable provider; Cox Media Group, a company that owns television and radio stations; Cox Automotive, an Atlanta-based business unit of Cox Enterprises; Cox Models, aka Cox Hobbies; Cox Sports, a regional sports network that served the United States New England region until 2012
In 2021, the company cut their number of employees from 10,200 to 7,500. [17] In 2022, Fossil Group appointed Lisa Marie Pillette as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. [18] In January 2024, the company announced that it would leave the smartwatch business. [19]