Circle K

Circle K is America’s largest and most expansive convenience store chain. Every year since opening, they’ve had nothing but growth. Lately, they’ve been expanding heavily in advertising, and store quality….

New Balance

Not as big as Nike or Adidas, they still have a decent presence in the shoe market. Plus they signed Kawaii Leonard to a shoe deal.

General Electric

The decline of General Electric would be a very interesting topic.

Gap / old Navy

Long extensive history. A company with many ups and downs

American Express

One of the most well-known credit card companies that doesn’t seem to have as strong a presence globally and has the highest fees for store owners. But it’s regarded as…

Under Armour

It has grown into one of the biggest sportware companies

Firehouse Subs.

It’s a small sub shop franchise popular mainly in the American South. Each shop has a mural of Firefighters and other first respondents but with details of the city it’s…

Super 8 Motel

Super 8 was a knockoff of Motel 6 (ok maybe do Motel 6) started in Aberdeen, SD. They grew fast, at one point opening a new motel every few days….

Rainforest Cafe

They’re a restaurant chain that feels like it’s been around forever, yet seems to only do business within tourist destinations & theme parks. They’ve always just seemed odd to me…

The Disney Channel

It began in the eighties as a public network mostly comprised of Walt Disney related programming mixed with family programming. By the turn of the millennium it had become strictly…