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Champion Homes was founded in 1953 as a single manufacturing facility in the small town of Dryden in rural Michigan by Walter W. Clark and Henry E. George. [4]In 2005, Champion was the first manufacturer to build privatized modular housing for the military.
Meritage Homes Corporation is a publicly traded American real estate development company that constructs a variety of single-family detached homes across the United States. It is the fifth largest home builder in the United States, based on 2023 home sales. [5] The company also develops active adult communities and luxury real estate in Arizona ...
Goodman was born as Charles Morton Goldman in New York City. Historian Elizabeth Jo Lampl identifies his parents as "Polish immigrants Harris Goldman and Jennie Blomsten," and notes that "Goodman's transcript from the Armour Institute of Technology records that he entered that program as Charles M. Goldman, but changed his name in 1934 to Charles M. Goodman."
Clayton Homes (or Clayton) is the largest builder of manufactured housing and modular homes in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway . [ 3 ]
The American System-Built Homes were modest houses in a series designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. They were developed between 1911 and 1917 to fulfill his interest in affordable housing but were sold commercially for just 14 months.
Hilton was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961. His father Samuel Hilton was a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw, Poland.Captured with Hilton's grandfather by German SS soldiers in 1943, his father spent two years in five different concentration camps in Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, before being liberated by Soviet soldiers at Theresienstadt outside of Prague.
Merit Group plc is a British publishing holding company founded in 2001. [2] Its largest shareholder is the Conservative politician and businessman Lord Ashcroft . It was formerly known as Huveaux plc (from 2001 to 2010) and then as Dods Group plc (2010–2021).
The Merit 25 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a slightly reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 2,900 lb (1,315 kg) and carries 1,050 lb (476 kg) of ballast. [1] [3]