Which company, opened in 1971, shares its name with a Moby Dick character?
"wants to sight Moby Dick first. Below deck, Queequeg tells Greenhorn that he is dying and asks that a coffin be built for him. Pip begins to sing a lament, in which Greenhorn joins in. The storm now surrounds the ""Pequod"". Ahab sings defiantly, whilst lightning bolts engulf the ship and the masts glow with St. Elmo's fire. Ahab demands that the men hold their posts, stating that the white flame is a sign from heaven to guide them to Moby Dick. This freshy inspires the crew, to Starbuck's dismay. ""Scenes 4-7. Day Four: The next morning"" The ""Pequod"" has"
"The Aladdin Company The Aladdin Company was a pioneer in the pre-cut, mail order home industry. Its primary competitors were Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Company in the US and Eaton's in Canada. Two other kit home manufacturers, Lewis and Sterling, were also based in Bay City. Aladdin began operations in 1906 and ceased operations in 1987. In 2014 the rights to the company name and logo were acquired by Charles Munro and sold to GreenTerraHomes in 2018 Aladdin was founded by two brothers, W. J. Sovereign and O. E. Sovereign in Bay City, Michigan after W. J. observed"
"2, 2006. The merger has since yielded co-branded building block toys. Toys are still sold under the separate labels Best-Lock and Cobi, but many Cobi sets appear in North American retailers such as Toys R' Us and Amazon.com under the Best-Lock brand. In 2011, Character Options announced that it would team up with Cobi to make ""Doctor Who"" sets. The sub-brand was called Character Building and it lasted until 2014. Cobi (building blocks) Cobi is a Polish toy company with its headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. Cobi's most prominent toys are building blocks with an interlocking stud and tube system similar"
"and one brother, Mark Lorberbaum of Miami Beach. He graduated with a B.A. from the University of Denver. Jeffrey joined the family business, carpet and rug manufacturer Aladdin Mills, in 1976, after graduating from the University of Denver. Lorberbaum held a number of leadership positions, eventually serving as Vice President of Operations from 1986 to 1994. In 1994, Aladdin merged with Mohawk Industries, which had gone public in 1992, creating one of the largest flooring manufacturers in the United States - and his father became Mohawk’s largest shareholder. Jeffrey and Alan Lorberbaum then joined Mohawk's Board of Directors. In 1995,"
"Maurice ""Moe"" Strauss Maurice ""Moe"" Strauss was one of the four founders of the Delaware Valley-based automotive parts retailer Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack. After mustering out of the Navy in 1921, Strauss and three friends from World War I, Emanuel ""Manny"" Rosenfeld, Graham ""Jack"" Jackson, and Moe Radavitz, chipped in $200 each to open a single auto parts supply store at 63rd & Market Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Strauss reportedly came up with the name of the company and commissioned the Manny, Moe, & Jack caricatures that serve today as the PepBoys logo after visiting a dress"
"Wrebbit Wrebbit, Inc was a puzzle-making company best known for its ""Puzz-3D"" puzzles. The company was founded in Montreal, Quebec, by Paul Gallant, and marketed itself as ""The Puzzle Innovators"". Its namesake appears to stem from the fact that the company's mascot is a green frog, and ""Wrebbit"" is either an alternative spelling or possibly a play on words of the word ""ribbit"". In the late 1990s, 3-dimensional puzzles were a successful fad, leading to a rapid growth in the company. In 2001, the business was bought by Irwin Toy. When Irwin Toy filed for bankruptcy a year later, Gallant"
"his style of roasting beans. The company took the name of the chief mate in the book ""Moby-Dick"": Starbuck, after considering ""Cargo House"" and ""Pequod"". Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with ""st"" were powerful. The founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with ""st"". Someone pulled out an old mining map of the Cascade Range and saw a mining town named ""Starbo"", which immediately put Bowker in mind of the character ""Starbuck"". Bowker said, """"Moby-Dick"" didn't have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound"
"Jack Jackson (businessman) W. Graham (Jack) Jackson was one of the four founders of the Delaware Valley-based automotive parts retailer The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack. After mustering out of the Navy in 1921 he and three friends from World War I, Maurice ""Moe"" Strauss, Emanuel ""Manny"" Rosenfeld and Moe Radavitz, chipped in $200 a piece to open their auto parts supply store on 63rd and Market Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Reportedly, even though the company and one of the three logo caricatures still bears his name Jack's likeness was replaced with that of Moe's brother, Isaac (Izzy)"
"The Learning Company The Learning Company (TLC) is an American educational software company, currently owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It produced a grade-based system of learning software and tools to improve productivity. Products for preschoolers through second graders include ""Reader Rabbit"", and software for more advanced students include ""The ClueFinders"". The company is also known for publishing licensed educational titles featuring characters such as Arthur, Scooby-Doo, ""Zoboomafoo"", and ""Caillou"". The learning company was founded in 1980 by Ann McCormick, Leslie Grimm, Teri Perl, and Warren Robinett, a former Atari employee who had programmed the popular game ""Adventure"". They saw the"
"Mego Corporation The Mego Corporation was a toy company founded in 1954. Originally known as a purveyor of dime store toys, in 1971 the company shifted direction and became famous for producing licensed action dolls (including the long-running ""World's Greatest Super Heroes"" line), celebrity dolls, and the Micronauts toy line. For a time in the 1970s, their line of 8-inch-scale dolls with interchangeable bodies became the industry standard. In 1982 Mego filed for bankruptcy, and by 1983, the Mego Corporation ceased to exist; today, Mego dolls and playsets can be highly prized collectibles, with some fetching hundreds, or even in"
"Mego Corporation The Mego Corporation was a toy company founded in 1954. Originally known as a purveyor of dime store toys, in 1971 the company shifted direction and became famous for producing licensed action dolls (including the long-running ""World's Greatest Super Heroes"" line), celebrity dolls, and the Micronauts toy line. For a time in the 1970s, their line of 8-inch-scale dolls with interchangeable bodies became the industry standard. In 1982 Mego filed for bankruptcy, and by 1983, the Mego Corporation ceased to exist; today, Mego dolls and playsets can be highly prized collectibles, with some fetching hundreds, or even in"
"Moby Lines Moby Lines (Moby Lines S.p.A.) is an Italian shipping company that operates ferries and cruiseferries between the Italian or French mainland and the islands of Elba, Sardinia and Corsica. The company was founded in 1959 under the name Navigazione Arcipelago Maddalenino (NAVARMA for short). In 2006 Moby Lines purchased Lloyd Sardegna. The company is known for using Warner Bros. Looney Tunes characters as the external livery of its ships. NAVARMA was founded in 1959 by Achille Onorato, and started traffic from Sardinia to the islands on coast of Sardinia with the small ferry M/S ""Maria Maddalena"" purchased from"
"themed sets from Disney, Hello Kitty, Robocar Poli and Pororo. Oxford manufactures Kre-O bricks on behalf of Hasbro. Oxford sets are commonly copied by Chinese toy companies Sluban and Woma, sometimes with slight changes. The company produces small block sets in several themes including: Oxford (toy company) Oxford Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean toy company, based in Busan, that makes interlocking brick toys. The company was first founded in 1961 as Dongjin Ind. Corp. In 1971, toy sales company Daegoo Lucky toy corp was established. In 1972, toy sales company Busan Lucky toy corp was established. In 1984,"
"York"" (1937), as the movie begins they are celebrating New Year's Eve 1938 in Times Square. People are parading down the street and pass directly in front of an Adam Hats store. With the introduction of the Mercury Cougar in late 1966, Adam Hats produced a ""Cougar""-styled hat which contained a small Mercury Cougar emblem on the band of the fedora. Adam Hats Adam Hats Corporation was an American manufacturer and retailer of hats. It was founded in 1924 by Elias Lustig and expanded until it eventually operated between 87 and 97 retail stores across the United States. Adam Hats"
"and faster tonnage, including the newbuilt fast cruiseferries ""Moby Wonder"", ""Moby Freedom"" and ""Moby Aki"". Around 2003 Moby Lines entered an agreement with Warner Bros. to paint their vessels in liveries featuring Looney Tunes characters. However, only the larger ships have such liveries, the company's smaller ships either have similar graphics not featuring the Looney Tunes characters, or simply the Moby Lines' whale logo. Moby Lines Moby Lines (Moby Lines S.p.A.) is an Italian shipping company that operates ferries and cruiseferries between the Italian or French mainland and the islands of Elba, Sardinia and Corsica. The company was founded in"
"Mobay Mobay Chemical Corporation, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a joint venture of Monsanto Company and Bayer to market polyurethanes in the United States. Founded in 1954, Bayer bought out Monsanto's shares in the company in the 1970s. Mobay, along with Miles Laboratories, was a member of Bayer's menagerie of companies in the US while Bayer did not own the US rights to its name. After a first failed attempt of appearing under the ""Bayer USA Inc."" name in the US, Bayer consolidated its US operations under the ""Miles"" name in 1992. Mobay was one of the suppliers of the"
"firm was acquired by Ellerbe Associates, and the merged firm continued as Ellerbe Becket until the end of 2009, when it was acquired by AECOM. It is now known as Ellerbe Becket, an AECOM Company. Becket's buildings used unusual facade materials such as ceramic tile and stainless steel grillwork, repetitive geometric patterns, and a heavy emphasis on walls clad in natural stone, particularly travertine and flagstone. With The Walt Disney Company and the United States Steel Corporation, Becket's firm co-designed Disney's Contemporary Resort, which opened in 1971 at Walt Disney World Resort. The Contemporary was designed as a 14-story steel"
"Strauss after Jackson left Pep Boys in mid-1920s. Jack Jackson (businessman) W. Graham (Jack) Jackson was one of the four founders of the Delaware Valley-based automotive parts retailer The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack. After mustering out of the Navy in 1921 he and three friends from World War I, Maurice ""Moe"" Strauss, Emanuel ""Manny"" Rosenfeld and Moe Radavitz, chipped in $200 a piece to open their auto parts supply store on 63rd and Market Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Reportedly, even though the company and one of the three logo caricatures still bears his name Jack's likeness was"
"L. Dolan exited TWC's board of directors and is replaced by hedge fund billionaire and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry. Later on August 1, Opus Bank's media and entertainment banking division funded a $400 million credit facility into TWC. On August 18, 2017, TWC launched Mizchief, a film label dedicated to producing animated films. When Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of TWC, was explaining on the origin of the name of Mizchief, he said that it was based on how one of his kids pronounced the word, ""Mischief"". The first film to be released under the label was the French-Canadian computer-animated film"
"M. F. Enterprises M. F. Enterprises was a 1966–67 comic book publisher owned by artist and 1970s pulp-magazine entrepreneur Myron Fass, whose holdings also included the black-and-white horror comics magazine imprint, Eerie Publications. M.F.'s best-known character was Captain Marvel (no relation to the Fawcett Comics, DC Comics or Marvel Comics superheroes of that name), a crimefighting alien android who could detach his head, limbs and hands and send them flying off in all directions whenever he shouted ""Split!"" and reattach them when he shouted ""Xam!"". M. F. Enterprises also published ""Henry Brewster"", a teen-humor comic created by artist Bob Powell,"
"scripting and drawing characters for a new cartoon about a community of fatsos and a dog named Polgas. In 1987, he worked as an architect for a firm in San Juan, Metro Manila. In September 1992, he co-founded Pugad Baboy, Inc. with seven other people. The company adopted ""Ad Astra Per Aspera"" for its motto, inspired by Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Three years later, the company folded when Pol Medina left in order pursue a career in the advertising industry. Currently he has another company, Pol Medina Jr. Novelties, dedicated to merchandise based on the"
"based in Somerset, started production. It was formally named 'The Willows' in March 2014, after the nearby Willow Man sculpture. Mulberry (company) Mulberry is a luxury fashion company founded in the United Kingdom in 1971, known internationally for its leather goods. The company was founded in 1971 by Roger Saul and his mother Joan, and in 1973 they opened a factory in Chilcompton, Somerset, England. The area was already established for leather fabrication, notably by Clarks shoes. Mulberry established itself as a British lifestyle brand, noted for its leather poacher bags including the binocular bag and dispatch bag. The range"
"1972, with the Dinky and Meccano businesses being acquired by Airfix. The company kept producing toys made of wood such as dolls' houses, toy forts, a Noah's ark with wooden animals as well as a small range of wooden soldiers. Lines Bros had its own railway system, the Rovex system, marketed as Tri-ang Railways. In 1964, Meccano Ltd, which manufactured the Hornby Dublo range, collapsed. Lines Bros. purchased the company, and in 1965 the combined model railway was marketed as Tri-ang-Hornby although the vast majority of the system was all Tri-ang 2 rail. In 1966 a controlling interest was acquired"
"Oxford (toy company) Oxford Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean toy company, based in Busan, that makes interlocking brick toys. The company was first founded in 1961 as Dongjin Ind. Corp. In 1971, toy sales company Daegoo Lucky toy corp was established. In 1972, toy sales company Busan Lucky toy corp was established. In 1984, toy manufacturer PAPA toy Ind. Corp. was established. In 1992, PAPA was renamed to Oxford co., ltd. The company's small sized blocks are compatible with Lego brand bricks, and the company makes blocks in larger sizes for younger children. Oxford has licenses to make"
"foray into the comic book publishing industry. The characters appeared on the covers of the comic books, and each contained an adventure, such as Robin Hood. The characters were revived with an updated, more contemporary look for a brief advertising campaign in the 1980s and 1990s. Caleres Caleres Inc. is an American footwear company that owns and operates a variety of footwear brands. Its headquarters is located in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Founded in 1878 as Bryan, Brown & Company in St. Louis and undergoing several name changes, for a time, the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company was the"
"told the Army, ‘It is policy—so sue us.’” Mobay Mobay Chemical Corporation, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a joint venture of Monsanto Company and Bayer to market polyurethanes in the United States. Founded in 1954, Bayer bought out Monsanto's shares in the company in the 1970s. Mobay, along with Miles Laboratories, was a member of Bayer's menagerie of companies in the US while Bayer did not own the US rights to its name. After a first failed attempt of appearing under the ""Bayer USA Inc."" name in the US, Bayer consolidated its US operations under the ""Miles"" name in 1992."
"The Smiley Company The Smiley Company is a brand licensing company that holds the rights to smiley face symbols in over 100 countries (notably not including the United States). The company is considered one of the top 100 licensing companies in the world and creates products including textiles, puzzles, party goods, stationery, automobile accessories, and toys for licensed brand partners and retailers. The company's signature smiley, which closely resembles the iconic smiley face created by U.S. graphic artist Harvey Ross Ball in 1963, was created by journalist Franklin Loufrani in 1971 as a way to indicate to readers of the"
"website went down, effectively ending Marvel Toys. Toy Biz Toy Biz (formerly stylized as ToyBiz and later re-branded as Marvel Toys) was an American toy company, a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, best known for producing toys, mainly action figures of licensed brands and characters. The company originated in Montreal, Quebec, as Charan Toys. In 1988, Charan Toys was renamed to ToyBiz and became an American firm. In 1990, it obtained the master toy licence for Marvel Entertainment Group, and by 1993 would partially be owned by Marvel. In 1998, ToyBiz merged with Marvel Entertainment Group to form Marvel Enterprises, with"
"Warby Parker JAND, Inc., doing business as Warby Parker, is an American online retailer of prescription glasses and sunglasses, based in New York City. Warby Parker primarily sells products through their website, but also feature retail locations in the U.S. and Canada. The company was founded in 2010 in Philadelphia by Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, David Gilboa, and Jeffrey Raider, and is headquartered in New York City. The name ""Warby Parker"" derives from two characters that appear in a journal by author Jack Kerouac. The company's official corporate name is JAND Inc. and ""Warby Parker"" is the company's trade name."
"in ""Lonesome Ghosts"" (1937) where Mickey, Donald and Goofy work for Ajax Ghost Exterminators. Other examples include Ajax Locksmiths, Ajax Door Fixers, Ajax Hairbow Wear Sale and Ajax Lost and Found. The name Ajax Corporation makes many appearances in the television series ""Mickey Mouse Works"" and ""Disney's House of Mouse"". It is roughly equivalent to Warner Bros.' Acme brand. It bears no relationship to either the real-world Ajax company, a manufacturer of railroad car brake equipment, or the Ajax line of household cleaning products made and marketed by Colgate-Palmolive company, and pre-dates the introduction of Ajax cleanser by Colgate-Palmolive in"
"and NYU MBA), and seven grandchildren, one named Fred who is a ""Max Prestige"" Call of Duty player, and got up to 3rd place on slither.io. Charles E. Cobb Charles Elvan Cobb, Jr. (born May 9, 1936) is an American businessman. He is currently the chief executive officer and senior managing director of Cobb Partners, Ltd., an investment firm. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Arvida Corporation and Disney Development Company during the 1970s and 1980s. Arvida was a public company and then a subsidiary of Penn Central and later of Walt Disney Company. He also served"
"The type of animatronics used in the ShowBiz pizza chain – which featured an overall-clad, hillbilly bear named Billy Bob as one of its central characters – distinguished it from its rival which offered many of the same services. Following Pizza Time Theatre's bankruptcy filing in 1984, however, ShowBiz bought the struggling franchise and formed ShowBiz Pizza Time Inc., a combination of the former companies' names. By 1992, all ShowBiz Pizza Iocations were rebranded as Chuck E. Cheese's. Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, responsible for bringing the first widely recognized video game ""Pong"" to the mainstream, headed a project in the"
"Bombay Company The Bombay Company is an American furniture and home accessories retailer. In Canada, it operates retail stores owned by the B&C Group. In the United States, the brand is owned by Hermes-Otto International in NYC. It was part of a larger American chain based in Fort Worth, Texas, but the U.S. outlets were closed. The Bombay Company was founded in 1978 by Brad Harper in New Orleans as a mail-order company and Greg McGroarty was allocated the Canadian operations by his good friend Brad Harper. Harper later opened two retail stores in New Orleans. In 1980, Harper sold"