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Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9]
Mint, also known as Intuit Mint (styled in its logo as intuit mint with dotted 't' characters in "intuit" and undotted 'i' characters) and formerly known as Mint.com, was a personal financial management website and mobile app for the US and Canada produced by Intuit, Inc. (which also produces TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Credit Karma).
The Franklin Mint has undergone several changes in ownership over the years: 1980: Warner Communications acquired The Franklin Mint for approximately $225 million. Warner retained the Mint's headquarters and Eastern Mountain Sports, a retailer acquired by the Mint during the 1970s, while leasing the headquarters back to subsequent owners. [13]
The youngest brother, William Pearson, joined the family business in 1944, as did George Pearson, son of founder P. Edward Pearson. In 1951, Pearson's acquired the Trudeau Candy Company, which brought Mint Patties and the Seven Up bar to Pearson's product line. The company moved to a new manufacturing plant at its current address in 1959. [7]
In 2021, Mint Mobile was named "the fastest growing company in America", and listed among the best places to work by American City Business Journals. [4] [19]Mint Mobile ranks as the "Best for Cheap Long-Term Plans" among mobile phone plans in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.
Today the United States Mint is largest mint manufacturer in the world, operating across six sites and producing as many as 28 billion coins in a single year. [2] Its largest site is the Philadelphia Mint which covers 650,000 square feet [ 3 ] (6 hectares) and can produce 32 million coins per day.
The current United States Mint was created by Congress with the Coinage Act of 1792, and originally placed within the Department of State. Per the terms of the Coinage Act, the first Mint building was in Philadelphia, which was then the capital of the United States; it was the first building of the United States raised under the Constitution.
Sunshine Minting, Inc., is a privately held company based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, that processes silver, gold and other precious metals.It is known as a supplier of silver planchets to the United States Mint and as the manufacturer of the private Liberty Dollar coins.