Sentences with phrase «own company towns»

«We've got a lot invested in our brand,» John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, told a company town hall after the Amazon deal was disclosed.

The ecommerce giant may turn another (undetermined) city into a company town when it builds a second headquarters that will staff 50,000 employees.

Since then, the concept of the company town has evolved.

In 1948, Kaiser Steel Corporation (led by noted industrialist Henry J. Kaiser) founded the company town of Eagle Mountain, California.

At their peak a century ago, there were more than 2,500 company towns housing 3 % of the US population, according to The Economist.

Meanwhile, Amazon recently announced that it will build a second headquarters that could effectively turn the chosen city into a company town — much like what happened to Seattle when the online retail giant came to Seattle in the late 1990s.

Since the 19th century, companies have built company towns across the United States — municipalities where they own large percentages of the housing, stores, schools, churches, roads, and parks.

More modern company towns, like Hershey, Pennsylvania (named after famed chocolatier Milton Hershey's candy corporation), gave residents say in what the town prioritized.

Now a ghost town, Table Rock, Wyoming was founded by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town to house workers during the region's housing shortage in the late 1970s.

Facebook is one of the few companies in recent years to continue the legacy of the traditional company town, where the corporation master - plans a new community for its employees to work and live in.

Much of present - day Astoria, Queens in New York City started as Steinway Village, a company town developed by the piano company Steinway & Sons.

And as CityLab notes, Hershey's Utopian, progressive vision for a company town could be why the present - day community is (relatively) economically healthy.

When it began, Irvine was not a traditional company town, since most residents did not work at the Irvine Company, a real estate developer.

In addition to company town - hall meetings twice a year and live Q&A s to keep every employee up - to - date, our team also uses tools like TINYpulse and CultureIQ to stay current on each employee's opinions.

The managers of Singapore Inc. tend to treat local citizens somewhat like the employees of an old - fashioned company town.

Frisco, Texas, is proposing turning its small city — a population of about 160,000 over 62 square miles — into a company town dominated by Amazon.

The nation's capital may be the seat of government, but it's hardly a one company town.

Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has become a company town for the garment trade, building its hopes of economic growth to a staggering degree on the manufacture and export of clothes.

While other companies, like Capital One and Lockheed Martin, have headquarters nearby, Washington is a company town — with the company being the government.

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Company town — company church: The era of subordination to the Adams family was remembered primarily by its attention to linkages: the physical and economic associations of the church with the Adams Company, the replication in Wiltshire of a historic Anglican church structure, the adherence of the church to the lives and fortunes of the Adams lineage.

They make caskets in Batesville, a company town of 4,700 people that sits astride Interstate 74 some 45 miles northwest of Cincinnati.

We must also consider that many defense industries are company towns with responsibilities for the full range of social amenities that their workers and staffs enjoy.

At 8 p.m., the documentary «Company Town» makes its first theatrical debut at Cinema Village, with an introduction from state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Cinema Village, 22 East 12th St., Manhattan.

A lot of rural voters in the hill country of the South particularly, but in small towns across the county, live in what amount to company towns where one or two modest sized factories provide most private employment.

In any company town, when the major employer is planning layoffs, people get worried.

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North Richmond, Calif.'s political climate is transforming from polluted company town to vanguard in the quest for environmental equity

Ride more than 20 paved miles along the Hocking River — through woods, countryside, and the Ohio University Campus — on what USA Today called one of 15 scenic bike rides in the U.S. Along the way, you'll pass historic sights like the old Eclipse Company Town mining village and the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway.

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It used to be a company town until car manufacturer Studebaker closed its plant in 1963, leaving a gaping economic hole.

Company Town (Unrated) Eco-documentary chronicling one man's mission to save his hometown of Crossett, Arkansas plagued by cancer clusters ostensibly caused by Georgia - Pacific, a corporate polluter owned by the Koch brothers.

Implement a process through which all questions and concerns — whether generated online, at company town - hall meetings or impromptu learning events, are filtered to the highest levels within the organization

It's a former oil company town — in the «60s, Sinclair stations with their friendly green dinosaur logos were plentiful in my hometown of Milwaukee.

Bakerton is a company town built on coal, a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters» breakfasts and firemen's parades.

His second collection, Hard Light, a retelling of his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of half a century ago, conjures a world of hard work and heavy weather, shot through with humour, endurance and love; in its imagery and sensibility it compares to Michael Turner's poems about a British Columbia salmon cannery in Company Town.

At about 20 minutes drive from Bergamo, Crespi d'Adda is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a great example of the 19th and 20th century «company towns» which were built in Europe and North America by industrialists in order to meet the workers» needs.

Aside from the park and the sheer beauty of the drive, there are other historic finds along the way, such as the lookalike cottages in the tiny town of Scotia, once a booming «company town» for the local lumber company.

Centred on the wreckage of an old theatre in Pripyat, the company town whose onetime residents managed and cared for the reactor, Thater's installation recreates the geometries of the theatre's walls and gives us a panoramic loop that changes like Chernobyl's diminished seasons.

The works on view represent a recently rediscovered series of works from 1981, all inspired by Lipschutz's hometown of Eagle Mountain, CA, an desert Army training ground turned into a Kaiser Steel mining company town before being abandoned for good in 1981.

Thomas Sturgill was born and raised in Pound, Virginia, a rural company town whose heyday had long passed.

These sites — former boomtowns established around specific industries and occupied by laborers — are the subject of Lee Anne Schmitt's haunting new film, California Company Town.

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One way to establish this, she says, would be to convince the court that the multiplayer game environment could be considered a sort of «company town» for First Amendment purposes:

Is Facebook the digital equivalent to the company town?

But the executives» silence seemed to attract more attention to Facebook's woes — especially after neither Zuckerberg nor Sandberg appeared at a company town hall meeting Tuesday.

The LAT «s Company Town cites a single source saying Yahoo had approached Hulu about a possible acquisition but this isn't necessarily what touched off the internal discussions at Hulu.

He recuses himself when Facebook issues come up before the commission, and also recuses himself from the question of whether Facebook is turning into a one - company town.

Company towns can be found the world over.

By the 1960s, the era of the company town in America was fading, even as countries like China picked up the notion.