Category: California

Kia America

About Kia America, Inc. (formerly Kia Motors America) is the official US sales, marketing, and distribution subsidiary of Kia Corporation — the South Korean automaker headquartered in Seoul and a key member of the Hyundai Motor Group — with its American headquarters at 111 Peters Canyon Road, Irvine, California 92606. Kia America was incorporated in California on October 21, 1992, as Kia Motors America, Inc., and began selling vehicles in the US in 1994 with the Sephia sedan — entering a market long dominated by Japanese and American brands. The company was rebranded to “Kia America” in 2021 as part of Kia Corporation’s global brand identity refresh. Kia America serves as the nerve center for all US sales operations, dealer

Read More »

Panda Express

About Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. — the parent company of Panda Express, Panda Inn, and Hibachi-San — is the largest Asian-American restaurant company in the United States, headquartered at 1683 Walnut Grove Avenue, Rosemead, California 91770, in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. Panda Express was founded on December 9, 1983 by Andrew Cherng and his wife Peggy Tsiang Cherng, when they opened the first Panda Express in the Glendale Galleria food court in Glendale, California — building on the success of Andrew’s father’s upscale sit-down restaurant, Panda Inn, which had opened in Pasadena in 1973. Andrew was born in China and raised in Taiwan; Peggy was born in Myanmar and raised in Hong Kong — both immigrated

Read More »

Public Storage

About Public Storage is an American publicly traded self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT) headquartered at 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, California 91201 — a campus it has occupied since its 1972 founding — and is the world’s largest self-storage company by facility count and market capitalization, a member of the S&P 500, and listed on NYSE under the ticker PSA. In March 2026, Dallas-based HALL Group announced that Public Storage will relocate its corporate headquarters from Glendale, California to HALL Park in Frisco, Texas later in 2026 — joining a wave of major California companies relocating to lower-tax, lower-cost Texas business environments. Public Storage was founded in 1972 by B. Wayne Hughes and Kenneth Volk Jr. in El Monte, California,

Read More »

In-N-Out Burger

About In-N-Out Burger, Inc. is an American privately owned fast-food hamburger chain currently headquartered at 4199 Campus Drive, Suite 900, Irvine, California 92612 — but announced in February 2025 that it will close the Irvine office by the end of 2029, consolidating its West Coast corporate operations to Baldwin Park, California (the city of its 1948 founding, less than a mile from its original restaurant) and opening a new East Coast/eastern territory headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee (expected to open in late 2026). In-N-Out was founded on October 22, 1948 in Baldwin Park, California by Harry and Esther Snyder — making it the first drive-through hamburger stand in California and one of the pioneering fast-food concepts in American history. The chain

Read More »

eBay Inc.

About eBay Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce corporation headquartered at 2025 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, California 95125 — a Silicon Valley campus in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, which has served as eBay’s primary corporate home since 2000. eBay was founded on September 3, 1995 by Pierre Omidyar in San Jose, California — originally as “AuctionWeb” operating from Omidyar’s living room — before growing into the world’s first and largest peer-to-peer online marketplace. eBay is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker EBAY, is a member of the S&P 500, and is led by CEO Jamie Iannone. eBay operates one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms — connecting 132 million+ active buyers with millions of sellers across

Read More »

Ross Stores

About Ross Stores, Inc. is an American publicly traded off-price retail chain headquartered at 5130 Hacienda Drive, Dublin, California 94568 — a purpose-built, four-acre corporate campus in the Tri-Valley area of the San Francisco East Bay — which has served as Ross’s corporate home since 2014, following the company’s relocation from Pleasanton, California (where it was headquartered from 2003–2014) and originally from Newark, California (8333 Central Avenue, the founding HQ). Ross Stores was founded in 1957 and has grown from a six-store regional chain into a $21.1 billion Fortune 500 company — the largest off-price apparel and home fashion retailer in the United States — operating under two banners: Ross Dress for Less (flagship off-price stores) and dd’s DISCOUNTS (value-priced

Read More »

Gusto

About Gusto, Inc. is an American HR technology and payroll SaaS company headquartered at 525 20th Street, San Francisco, California 94107 — a purpose-designed 55,000 square foot office inside the historic American Industrial Center (Pier 70 area) in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, a former shipbuilding hub that blends industrial architecture with modern collaborative workspaces. Gusto was founded in 2012 under the name ZenPayroll by Josh Reeves, Tomer London, and Edward Kim — originally as a simplified payroll platform for small businesses — before rebranding to Gusto in 2015 to reflect its broader expansion into HR, benefits, and compliance services. The company is privately held and has raised over $750 million in venture funding. Gusto’s platform serves 400,000+ small and medium-sized

Read More »

Instacart

About Instacart — legally Maplebear Inc. — is an American online grocery delivery and retail media company headquartered at 50 Beale Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, California 94105, in the Embarcadero district. Founded in 2012 by Apoorva Mehta, Instacart went public on NASDAQ under the ticker CART in September 2023, and today serves millions of customers across the US and Canada through partnerships with major grocery retailers. The company employs 3,000+ people and maintains offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Toronto, and Halifax. Quick Facts Founded 2012 (San Francisco, CA, by Apoorva Mehta) Industry Online grocery delivery & retail media technology Revenue ~$3.4B annually Employees 3,000+ Offices San Francisco (HQ), New York, Toronto, Halifax HQ Address 50 Beale Street,

Read More »

Fashion Nova

About Fashion Nova, Inc. is the world’s leading ultra-fast fashion brand, with its global headquarters now at 407 North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90210 — a 175,000-square-foot modernist office campus purchased off-market by Founder and CEO Richard Saghian from Tishman Speyer for $118 million in an all-cash transaction announced in August 2024, with Fashion Nova officially relocating its global HQ to Beverly Hills in late 2024. The new Beverly Hills campus houses more than 500 corporate employees and features two signature concepts: the Nova Social Club — an exclusive hub for influencers, creators, and celebrities featuring a fitness studio, wellness spa, content and podcast studios, and a fashion showroom — and the Nova Founders Lab — an incubator-accelerator for

Read More »

Green Dot Bank

About Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) is an American financial technology and bank holding company, and the world’s largest prepaid debit card company by market capitalization, with its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas — relocated from Pasadena, California in May 2021. Green Dot was founded in 1999 and has served more than 33 million customers directly, operating primarily as a “branchless bank” — meaning it provides FDIC-insured banking products and services entirely without physical branch banking locations for consumers. Green Dot operates a dual-address structure that is important to understand: the corporate holding company (Green Dot Corporation) is headquartered in Austin, Texas, while the FDIC-chartered banking subsidiary — Green Dot Bank, doing business as Bonneville Bank — maintains its sole

Read More »
Scroll to Top