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151. Baccarat Hotel
Original Headquarters: N/A
Purchased By: Sunshine Insurance Group
Country: China
The Baccarat is known as one of the most exquisite luxury hotels in New York City. It opened its doors to guests in 2015, and with its’ impeccable location—it is right by the Radio City Music Hall and the Museum of Modern Art— the hotel was bound to be a success.
Baccarat Hotel @BaccaratHotelNewYork/Facebook
While it is located at the heart of New York City, the hotel is actually owned by the Sunshine Insurance Group which is an insurance company whose headquarters are in Bejing, China. The Sunshine Insurance Group purchased the Baccarat Hotel for $230 million. Originally, the hotel was designed by the French designer team Gilles & Boisser.
152. Coors Brewing
Original Headquarters: Golden, Colorado
Purchased By: Molson, Inc.
Country: Canada
The American brewery and beer company Coors was established in 1873 in Golden, Colorado by German immigrants Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler. The two purchased the recipe for their signature beer from a Czech immigrant named William Silhan. The Coors Brewing Company is one of the few that managed to survive Prohibition without much of a loss.
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While The Coors Brewing Company started as a US business, in 2005 it merged with Molson, Inc., becoming Molson Coors. Molson Brewery is a Canadian brewery established in 1786 and based in Montreal.
153. Adidas
Original Headquarters: Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany
Purchased By: N/A
Country: Germany
The three stripes have become one of the most recognizable sports brand logos and because Adidas is so popular in the United States, many might assume that the company is American. However, Adidas was founded in Germany—and today it is s German multinational corporation.
Adidas @Adidas/Facebook
Adidas was founded by Adolph “Adi” Dassler and his brother Rudolph in 1924 under its original name Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik. Since then, the company has grown immensely and today it is considered one of the most famous sports brands, alongside Nike and Puma. The name Adidas comes from Dassler’s nickname Adi and the beginning of his last name.
154. Flatiron Building
Original Headquarters: N/A
Purchased By: Sorgente Group
Country: Italy
The Flatiron is surely one of the most well-known and recognizable buildings in the city that never sleeps. Located at 175 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the Flatiron was completed in 1902 and at the time—with 20 floors—it was one of the city’s tallest skyscrapers.
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In 2008, Italian real estate investor Valter Mainetti and the investment firm Sorgente Group bought a majority stake in New York City’s iconic building, with plans to turn the building into a hotel. The Flatiron building has been a National Historic Landmark since 1989.
155. Caribou Coffee
Original Headquarters: Edina, Minnesota
Purchased By: JAB Holding Company
Country: Germany
Caribou Coffee was founded in 1992 in Edina, Minnesota by John Puckett. Since then, it has managed to spread across the globe and become one of the most famous international coffee chains. In 2006, Bahrain’s Arcapita became the majority stakeholder of the company but it didn’t end there.
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In December 2012 the coffee chain was bought by the German equity company JAB Holding Company for $340 million. While Caribou Coffee is owned by a German conglomerate, its headquarters remained in Minnesota. As of 2021, Caribou Coffee has more than 700 locations all over the world.
156. Dial
Original Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Purchased By: Henkel KGaA
Country: Germany
Dial soap has been a staple in American households since it was founded in 1948. The soap was created by a chemist from the meat-packing company Armour and Company and it was the world’s first antibacterial soap. The soap promised to protect against sweat odor for 24 hours.
Dial @Dial/Facebook
Between 1970 and 1996, the brand was owned by The Greyhound Corporation. In 2004, the company was bought by the German conglomerate Henkel KGaA which has its headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany. Apart from Dial, Henkel also owns brands like Loctite, Persil, Fa, Pritt, and Purex.
157. Shell
Original Headquarters: N/A
Purchased By: N/A
Country: United Kingdom
Shell is one of the most well-known multinational oil and gas companies in the world and why many may assume that it’s from the United States—Shell isn’t American. The oil and gas company was formed in 1907 through the merger of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company from the Netherlands and the “Shell” Transport and Trading Company from the United Kingdom.
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Between 2005 and 2022 the oil and gas company had its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands but since 2022 Shell’s headquarters is located in London, United Kingdom. The company’s market capitalization in 2022 was $199 billion.
158. Dodge
Original Headquarters: Detroit, Michigan
Purchased By: Stellantis
Country: International
The American brand of cars Dodge was founded as the Dodge Brothers Company machine shop in the early 1900s in Detroit, Michigan by brothers Horace Elgin and John Francis Dodge. After their passing, their families sold the company to Chrysler Corporation in 1928.
Dodge @dodge/Facebook
Dodge—which was part of the Chrysler Group—merged with Fiat S.p.A in 2014 creating Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. In 2021, FCA merged with the PSA Group creating Stellantis, a multinational automotive manufacturing group that became the second largest automaker in Europe (after Volkswagen).
159. Miller Brewing
Original Headquarters: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Purchased By: Molson Coors
Country: USA/Canada
The Miller Brewing Company was founded in 1855 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Frederick Miller who emigrated from Germany with a unique brewer’s yeast. While the company grew immensely over the years, it remained a family business until 1996.
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In 2016, Molson Coors—the American-Canadian multinational drink and brewing company that was formed through the merger of Molson (USA) and Coors (Canada)— acquired Miller Brewing Company for $12 billion. While Miller Brewing is owned by a multinational company, its beer production continued on its original Miller Brewing Company complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
160. Exxon-Mobil
Original Headquarters: Irving, Texas
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
The American multinational oil and gas corporation Exxon-Mobil is known as one of the big oil companies which is why it isn’t surprising that it operates across the globe. According to US News, in 2011, Exxon-Mobil has $342 billion in revenue out of which 45% was from overseas. For comparison, in 2021, Exon-Mobil had $285.64 billion in revenue.
Exxon-Mobil @ExxonMobil/Facebook
ExxonMobil was created in 1999 through a merger of Mobil (originally the Vacuum Oil and Standard Oil Company of New York) and Exxon (originally the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey).
161. Bank of America
Original Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
The Bank of America is a multinational investment bank that was founded as the Bank of Italyby Amadeo Pietro Giannini in 1904 and bought by the NationsBank of Charlotte in 1999. In 2022, the headquarters of the Bank of America is located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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According to US News, in 2011, the Bank of America had $134 billion in revenue—and 20% of that was from overseas. Today, it is no secret that the company does business abroad as well, especially in Europe where plenty of their big corporate clients are located.
162. McKesson
Original Headquarters: Irving, Texas
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
McKesson Corporation is one of the biggest distributors of pharmaceuticals and medical suppllies in North America. It was founded in 1828 in New York City under the name Charles M. Olcott. Its founders Charles Olcott and John McKesson started the company to import botanical drugs.
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Per Us News, in 2011 McKesson had revenues of $112 billion—9% of which were from doing business overseas. In 2021, the company earned $238.2 billion in revenue. While McKesson mostly operated in the United States, it has also been familiar with the Mexican and Canadian markets.
163. UnitedHealth Group
Original Headquarters: Minnetonka, Minnesota,
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare and insurance company that was founded by Richard Taylor Burke founded in 1974 under the name Charter Med Incorporated. Three years later, the United HealthCare Corporation was created to reorganize the original company.
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According to Fortune, UnitedHealth Group is “the nation’s largest health insurer by revenue.” The insurance company partners with more than 1.3 million health care professionals and more than 6,500 hospitals nationwide. The company’s revenue in 2021 was $287,5 million and its market value was over $500 million. In 2022, UnitedHealth Group ranked 11th on the Fortune Global 500 list.
164. Dow Chemical
Original Headquarters: Midland, Michigan
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
In 1897, Dow Chemical was founded by chemist Herbert Henry Dow. In 2022, the company is among the three largest chemical producers in the world—alongside BASF and Sinopec. Because the company operates across the globe, plenty of its revenue also comes from overseas.
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As per Us News, in 2011 Dow Chemica made $54 billion in revenue and 67% of that was from foreign countries. Most of the company’s customers come from places where the demand for plastics and building materials is high such as China, eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
165. Intel
Original Headquarters: Mountain View, California
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
The multinational tech company Intel was founded in 1968 by chemist Gordon E. Moore and physicist Robert Noyce (the co-inventor of the integrated circuit). Today, the modern world is hard to imagine without the tech company as Intel is the supplier of microprocessors for brands such as Acer, Lenovo, HP, and Dell.
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Over 80% of Intel’s annual revenue comes from overseas. The company’s largest markets are Taiwan and China where plenty of tech companies have outsourced their production. Because of this many of those chips and processors do eventually make it back to the United States.
166. McDonald’s
Original Headquarters: San Bernardino, California
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
The chain McDonald’s is perhaps the most recognizable face of fast food. The first McDonald’s restaurant was a hamburger stand that was run by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald. The two opened it in San Bernardino, California, in 1940, and 60 years later the company has restaurants in over 100 countries across the globe.
McDonalds @McDonaldsGeo/Facebook
As of writing, McDonald’s is the largest restaurant chain by revenue in the world. US News estimates that over 60% of McDonald’s revenue comes from overseas, in particular from Europe and Asia. In 2022, McDonald’s headquarters are located in Chicago, Illinois.
167. Amazon
Original Headquarters: Bellevue, Washington
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
Amazon may be an American company but it earns approximately half of its revenue overseas, according to US News. The multinational tech company is known for e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and AI, and it is one of the Big Five USA IT companies—alongside Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
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Besides being a frontrunner in the industry in the United States, Amazon is also doing a lot of business in Canada, Europe, Japan, and even China. The company was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington. In 2022, Jeff Bezos is the third richest person on the planet.
168. Marriott
Original Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
The Marriott hotel chain which owns the Marriott, Courtyard, Fairfield Inn, Residence Inn, and Ritz-Carlton hotels across the globe is one of the most successful hospitality companies in the world. Considering that it has over 8,000 locations across the globe, it’s not surprising that the company makes plenty of revenue from overseas.
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The Marriott Corporation was founded in 1927 by John Willard Marriott and his wife, Alice Marriott who opened a root beer stand in Washington, D.C. The Marriott Corporation opened its first hotel in 1957 in Arlington, Virginia. Unfortunately, the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel (which was what it was originally called) was demolished in 1990.
169. Boeing
Original Headquarters: Seattle, Washington
Purchased By: N/A
Country: USA
Boeing makes almost half of its annual revenue from overseas—and considering that the company is the most well-known producer of airplanes in the world, that isn’t surprising. Big airlines from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East are some of the company’s most important customers.
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The Boeing Company was originally founded as the Aero Products Company in 1916 in Seattle, Washington by industrialist William E. Boeing. 1917 the company was renamed Boeing Airplane Company, a name that stuck (minus the airplane part). In 2021, Boeing—whose headquarters are now in Chicago, Illinois—made over $60 billion in revenue.
170. Ralph Lauren
Original Headquarters: New York City, New York
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
Fashion brand Ralph Lauren has been dominating runways since the late 1960s. With a stock price of $91.82 a share, currently, RL is doing incredibly well. It has retained its original New York City headquarters throughout the years, and it has a large market share of both the mid-range and luxury segments.
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Ralph Lauren’s products are made partially in the United States, but the company also outsources its production to China, Bangladesh, and Mexico, three countries known for their cheap labor. The brand makes some of its casual lines, like Polo and Lauren by Ralph Lauren, in China specifically.
171. Colgate
Original Headquarters: New York City, New York
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
If you’ve ever been to a store before, you’ve seen Colgate-Palmolive products. Colgate is best-known for its oral care products, including toothbrushes, floss, toothpaste, mouthwash, and more. The brand is headquartered, like many of the companies on this list, in New York City on Madison Avenue.
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Colgate has factories all around the world, including the U.S., Mexico, India, China, and Brazil. Colgate toothpaste, in particular, has had a long history, as the company has been making this product for more than a century. Colgate-Palmolive, as a conglomerate, owns a ton of subsidiaries, so it only makes sense that they’d spread out their manufacturing as much as possible.
172. Green Giant
Original Headquarters: Minnesota
Purchased By: B&G Foods
Country: U.S.A.
In 1903, Green Giant was founded as a small canned vegetable business called the Minnesota Canning Company. Green Giant, the food brand’s most well-known mascot, appeared for the first time in 1925. A century later, Green Giant is still a common site in the frozen foods aisles of most supermarkets.
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Green Giant is owned by B&G Foods, an American brand based in New Jersey that brings in revenue of around $1.968 billion a year. Previously, General Mills owned Green Giant. B&G has a lot less longevity than Green Giant, as it was founded in Troy Hills, New Jersey, in 1996.
173. Patagonia
Original Headquarters: Ventura, California
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
Patagonia, an outdoor gear and apparel company, is owned by Yvon Chouinard, a billionaire retail tycoon. Headquartered in Ventura, California, Chouinard has managed to grow Patagonia to a label worth billions, bringing in $1.5 billion in revenue a year.
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Patagonia has stores in more than ten countries around the world, and its growth has been impressive, considering that it is just five decades old. Chouinard was inspired to start his business because he was a dedicated rock climber. Patagonia is headquartered in the American West, but it makes its clothing all around the world. Thirteen of its 43 factories are located in China.
174. TikTok
Original Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
Purchased By: ByteDance
Country: China
TikTok is owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance, and its Beijing-based ownership has caused the hackles of many U.S. politicians to be raised. The video app is one of the fastest-growing in the world, with hundreds of millions of active users each month.
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ByteDance is valued at $360 billion, and it not only owns TikTok, it also owns Douyin, TikTok’s sister app, along with various enterprise software and educational ventures. There have been many U.S. calls to legislators to regulate (if not outright ban) TikTok because of its Chinese ownership and the threat, some say, of American data and information being stolen.
175. Royal Appliances
Original Headquarters: Cleveland, Ohio
Purchased By: Techtronic Industries Corp.
Country: China
Originally headquartered in Ohio, Royal Appliance Manufacturing Company is best-known for the Dirt Devil, a line of inexpensive yet effective vacuum cleaners. Royal means one of the oldest vacuum cleaner makers in the world, and, in 2002, it was purchased by Techtronic Industries Corp., a Chinese company, for $105 million.
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Techtronic also owns Homelite Lawn, Ryobi Power Tools, and many other similar companies. Royal, now known as TTI, makes floor care products that are sold throughout major retailers and venues. The company has changed a lot since it released the Dirt Devil in 1984.
176. Build-A-Bear Workshop
Original Headquarters: St. Louis, Missouri
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
There’s a good chance that, if you’re part of Gen X or later, Build-A-Bear Workshop was part of your childhood. For some, this was their favorite store in the mall—a place you could go to make your own stuffed animal from scratch (and love). Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Build-A-Bear brings in $358 million a year in revenue.
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Founded by Maxine Clark, an innovative pioneer in the industry, Build-A-Bear is not owned by anyone, but it does have quite a few subsidiaries, including Build-A-Bear Entertainment and Bear Factory Limited, to its name. Most of its products, however, are made in Asia, according to the company.
177. Ben’s Original Rice
Original Headquarters: London, England
Purchased By: Mars, Inc.
Country: U.S.A.
If you’ve ever been in a grocery store and gone to the dry goods section, you’ve probably seen Ben’s Original Rice. This rice brand has been a favorite for families who want to make an easy side dish, and the products are affordable, costing under $5, usually.
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Ben’s was first marketed in the 1940s, and, from the 1950s to the 1990s, it was the best-selling rice brand in America. Today, the brand is owned by Mars, Inc., the massive company with a ton of famous food brands under its name. Mars is headquartered in Houston, Texas’ Denver Harbor area.
178. Starwood Hotels
Original Headquarters: Stamford, Connecticut
Purchased By: Marriott International, Inc.
Country: U.S.A.
For a while, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide was one of the largest hospitality companies in the world. It owned, managed, and franchised countless timeshares, spas, residences, resorts, and hotels. In 2015, it was bringing in $5.763 billion in revenue a year, working with an operating income of $740 million.
Starwood Hotels @Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc./Facebook
Starwood was purchased by Marriott International, which is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The merger was in Starwood’s best interest, as it made the brand part of the Marriott Empire. Before it merged, Starwood owned eleven brands, consisting of 1,300 properties in 100 countries.
179. Coach
Original Headquarters: New York City, New York
Purchased By: Tapestry, Inc.
Country: U.S.A.
Coach New York is a brand owned by Tapestry, a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. Coach changed its name to Tapestry in 2017, and Tapestry also owns Stuart Weitzman and Kate Spade New York. Coach, like Ralph Lauren, its competitor, has a large market share of the mid- to luxury-goods segment.
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Tapestry brings in $5.88 billion in revenue a year, and it has an operating income of nearly $671 million. Headquartered in NYC, Tapestry went through a rebrand in order to better match the expanding, changing fashion industry and its customers. As of 2019, Tapestry had more than 20,000 employees.
180. Bob’s Red Mill
Original Headquarters: Milwaukie, Oregon
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
Bob’s Red Mill, compared to the other brands on this list, is a unique company. The food brand is entirely employee-owned by its 500+ workers. Bob’s Red Mill is dedicated to producing healthy foods, a mission inspired by its founder, Bob Moore, who was devastated when his father died of a heart attack before age 50.
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Bob’s is headquartered in Oregon, and it produces gluten-free milled grain, certified organic, and natural products. It distributes its foods throughout the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, producing more than 400 different items. Some of its milled grains come from mills more than a century old.
181. Shein
Original Headquarters: Nanjing, China
Purchased By: Nanjing Lingtian Information Technology Co., Ltd
Country: China
Shein is a China-based fast fashion retailer that has 47.3 million active users a month. The company brings in $10 billion in revenue a year, and it has more than 100,000 employees. Founded by Chris Xu, Shein is actually owned by a Nanjing-based information technology company.
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The company is known for its cheap, affordable clothing, and it is considered less a retailer than a drop shipping business. Shein isn’t involved in its clothing manufacturing or design, instead obtaining its products from wholesale clothing markets in the Guangzhou, China area. Shein, as of 2022, is the largest fashion company in the world, with business in 220 countries.
182. Haagen-Dazs
Original Headquarters: The Bronx, New York City, New York
Purchased By: Froneri, General Mills
Country: U.S.A.
Haagen-Dazs, despite the name, is an American brand. It was established by Rose and Reuebn Mattus in The Bronx, NYC in 1960. Haagen-Dazs started with just three flavors: chocolate, vanilla, and coffee. It opened its first retail store in the mid-1970s, and it has been growing ever since.
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Now, it has worldwide operations, and it produces a ton of different products with many different flavors. The Mattuses named Haagen-Dazs its unique name because they wanted it to sound Danish, as the couple admired Denmark for its great treatment of the Jewish people during World War II.
183. Costco
Original Headquarters: San Diego, California
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
Costco is the place to go if you want to buy in bulk. Headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, the bulk retailer was founded by Jeffrey Brotman and James Sinegal in 1983. It trades publicly on NASDAQ, and it brings in $226.95 billion a year in revenue. Its operating income is around $7.7 billion, and its members total 118.9 million.
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Costco might have a strong American history, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an international company. It has 839 warehouses around the world, with several-hundred in places like Canada, Mexico, the UK, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, France, China, Iceland, Sweden, and New Zealand.
184. Krispy Kreme
Original Headquarters: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Purchased By: JAB Holding Company
Country: Luxembourg
Krispy Kreme doughnuts: either you can’t get enough of them or you won’t let them in your house. Krispy Kreme was founded in 1937 by Vernon Rudolph, who rented a building in North Carolina and began making doughnuts and selling them to local grocery stores. Krispy Kreme had steady growth, becoming a public company from 2000 until 2016.
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In 2016, Krispy Kreme went private under JAB Holding Company, a firm in Luxembourg. Krispy Kreme is one of the most famous doughnut brands in existence, bringing in more than half a billion dollars in revenue a year. In total, it has 1,400 locations in operation right now.
185. Calvin Klein
Original Headquarters: New York City, New York
Purchased By: PVH Corp.
Country: U.S.A.
Calvin Klein, Inc. founded by Calvin Klein, is a fashion retailer that specializes in low-end luxury. CK became famous in the eighties for its denim and designer underwear lines, and its clothing spans all genders and age groups. CK also sells lifestyle accessories, shoes, home goods, cosmetics, and more.
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In 2003, PVH Corp. bought Calvin Klein for $300 million, and it helped expand the brand to have an even larger market share than it does now. Global retail sales under the CK brand, including its forty licensees, have amounted to $8.5 billion a year as of 2021.
186. Annie’s Homegrown
Original Headquarters: Hampton, Connecticut
Purchased By: General Mills
Country: U.S.A.
Annie’s Homegrown, better known just as Annie’s, is a New England organic food company currently owned by General Mills. It was founded by Annie Withey and her business partner, Andrew Martin (the same man who co-founded the Smartfood Popcorn brand with Ken Meyers). Annie’s is famous for its macaroni and cheese, and it is America’s second-best-selling mac ‘n cheese behind Kraft.
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Annie’s has grown quickly in the past three decades since its late-eighties founding. It was purchased in September of 2014 by General Mills for $820 million, and that international conglomerate has helped grow Annie’s even more.
187. Olay
Original Headquarters: South Africa
Purchased By: Procter & Gamble
Country: U.S.A.
Olay is a mainstay in the personal care aisles of supermarkets and other stores. It is owned by Procter & Gamble, who are probably happy they made that purchase, as Olay accounts for $2.8 billion of P&G’s annual revenue. The skincare brand actually originated in South Africa, where it was called Oil of Olay.
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A Unilever chemist, Graham Wulff, started Olay in 1952, and the key ingredient in the product was lanolin. It was different in its early days, as it was a pink fluid in a heavy glass bottle rather than a cream in a plastic package. Olay’s marketing was also deliberately vague—Oil of Olay never said what it actually did, only hinting that it would make someone “younger” with its “beauty secret.”
188. Champion
Original Headquarters: Rochester, New York
Purchased By: Hanesbrands
Country: U.S.A.
Champion is a brand of sportswear that originated in the early 1900s. It was first called the Knickerbocker Knitting Company, and, later, Champion Knitting Mills, Inc. The company was private until 1989, when it was bought by the Sara Lee Corporation. Hanesbrands, an apparel corporation based in North Carolina, bought Champion from Sara Lee in 2006.
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In the past, Champion has had a lot of partnerships with American sports organizations, including the NBA. It made uniforms for the National Basketball Association until 2004, when it was usurped by Reebok. Until 2017, Champion also sponsored FIBA, an international sports association, too.
189. Oral-B
Original Headquarters: Redwood City, California
Purchased By: Procter & Gamble
Country: U.S.A.
Oral-B was founded by a periodontist named Dr. Robert W. Hutson in 1950. Hutson invented a new type of toothbrush, one using thin, nylon filaments that could clean teeth effectively while being gentle on the gums. Hutson filed for his patent in 1950, and it was granted the same year.
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Oral-B grew from there, becoming part of Gillette, a company known for its personal care products, in 1984. Since the 2000s, Oral-B has been part of the Procter & Gamble Co., a business that brings in $83.1 billion in sales revenue a year and owns sixty-five brands.
190. Sperry
Original Headquarters: Waltham, Massachusetts
Purchased By: Wolverine Worldwide
Country: U.S.A.
Sperry was founded by Paul Sperry, a man who was obsessed with the idea of creating the perfect boat shoe. He achieved his dream in the mid-1930s with the Sperry Top-Sider, a shoe made from a canvas upper, a white outsole, and herringbone siping. The white-colored outsole kept the shoe from leaving scuff marks on the deck of the boat.
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Now, Sperry is owned by Wolverine Worldwide, a publicly-traded American footwear brand based in New England. Sperry has forty outlet stores and two specialty stores across America, and, in 2009, Footwear News named its Top-Sider the shoe Brand of the Year.
191. Jelly Belly
Original Headquarters: Belleville, Illinois
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
Jelly Belly Candy Company was founded by a German immigrant called Gustav Goelitz, who started his confectionery business in the late 1860s in Illinois. After his younger brothers came over, Jelly Belly was able to grow even more. Though Jelly Belly is now known for its gourmet jelly beans, it was, at first, most successful in its initial product, mellowcreme candies.
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Now, Jelly Belly is based in California, and it has another manufacturing facility in Illinois. In 2008, it opened up a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Thailand’s Rayong City, where it makes its confections for an international market.
192. Guess
Original Headquarters: Los Angeles, California
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
The Marciano Brothers started the Guess Brand in the early 1980s, introducing its famous black-and-white, award-winning ads in the mid-eighties. Guess trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange, and it has around 1,638 locations. It has its headquarters in L.A., and it brings in around $2.59 billion in revenue a year.
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Guess has gone through its ups and downs over the years, as have all retail companies, but the brand appears to currently be going strong, with 12,500 employees and a net income of $171.3 million a year. Guess manufactures its clothes in Bangladesh, China, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Turkey, and Japan.
193. Chobani
Original Headquarters: South Erndeston, New York
Purchased By: N/A
Country: U.S.A.
Turkish businessman Hamdi Ulukaya founded Chobani in 2005. The brand specializes in thick, strained, Greek-style yogurt that nutritionists love because it has more protein than normal yogurt. Chobani is credited with being one of the companies to popularize the Greek yogurt craze in America.
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Chobani went from a 1% market share in 2007 to a 20% market share in 2021, and it is now the best-selling Greek yogurt brand in the States. It has more than 2,000 employees, and it brings in $1.4 billion in revenue a year as of 2021, up $400 million from its total in 2010.
194. New Balance
Original Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
Purchased By: Jim Davis
Country: U.S.A.
In 1972, a man named Jim Davis purchased a small shoe store in Boston, Massachusetts. Through ingenuity and hard work, he turned it into New Balance, a brand with $4.4 billion in sales. Davis, to this day, serves as chairman of New Balance, while his wife, Anna, is the vice chairman.
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The Davis family owns 95% of the private company, and David himself has a net worth in the billions. New Balance tries to commit to domestic manufacturing, and it has five factories in Massachusetts and Maine. New Balance claims that 25% of its shoes are produced in U.S. factories employing “American workers.”
195. Wilson Sporting Goods
Original Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Purchased By: Anta Sports
Country: China
Quintessential American brand Wilson Sporting Goods was owned by Amer Sports Corporation, a Finnish company for many years. However, Amer Sports was acquired by a Chinese consortium led by Anta Sports in 2019. Anta Sports is a Chinese sportswear company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets sports footwear, apparel, and accessories.
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The company is headquartered in Jinjiang, Fujian, China, and operates through its numerous brands, including Anta, Fila, and Descente. Anta Sports has a strong presence in China and has been expanding its reach globally through strategic partnerships and acquisitions. As for Wilson, it may be technically owned by China, but the HQ is still in Chicago, Illinois.
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