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This is a list of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area.The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. [2]
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The company was founded in 1883 [1] in Chicago as a lumber company by Albert Blake Dick (1856 – 1934). It soon expanded into office supplies and, after licensing key autographic printing patents from Thomas Edison, became the world's largest manufacturer of mimeograph equipment (Albert Dick coined the word "mimeograph"). [3]
Essendant Inc., formerly known as United Stationers, is a national wholesale distributor of office supplies, with consolidated net sales of $5.3 billion. Essendant serves 30,000 reseller customers and stocks over 160,000 items, including traditional office products, office furniture, janitorial and break room supplies, industrial supplies, and technology products.
The building later became headquarters for Verizon New Jersey, Inc. [4] [5] [6] The building was sold in 2017 and has been converted to residential high-rise market rate apartments and renamed Walker House. Verizon still leases several floors in the building. [7] [8] It opened in 2019 as the Walker House, named for the architect who designed it ...
In 1986, the company's revenues amounted to $180 million. Its mail-order business was the most successful within the office supplies market, with more than 40 million catalogues and flyers sent to a customer base of approximately 600,000 businesses and organizations, and listing more than 9,000 various office supplies and products.
China Construction America (Chinese: 中建美国) Founded in 1985, China Construction America (CCA) is a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. (CSCEC) — the world's largest construction and real estate conglomerate and the biggest global contractor [1] — that operates on the East Coast of the U.S [2] [3] and the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, [4] and Latin ...
The new company combined the operations of 37 mining and calcining plants producing agricultural and construction plaster. [12] Directors of the new firm selected B.W. McCausland of Michigan for its first president; in 1905, he was succeeded by his previous Alabaster Company business partner's son, Sewell Avery, who served in the role for 35 years.