Category: Georgia

Arby’s

About Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. is the second-largest sandwich restaurant brand in the world, headquartered at 3 Glenlake Parkway NE, Sandy Springs, Georgia 30328 — a suburb of Atlanta that uses Atlanta mailing addresses. Arby’s shares this campus with Inspire Brands, its parent company, which also owns Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Sonic Drive-In, Jimmy John’s, and Baskin-Robbins under the same roof. Arby’s was founded on July 23, 1964 by brothers Forrest and Leroy Raffel in Boardman, Ohio — the name “Arby’s” derived from the initials “R.B.” standing for Raffel Brothers. The brand built its identity around slow-roasted beef sandwiches and expanded nationally over the following decades before being acquired by Wendy’s/Arby’s Group (later renamed Arby’s Restaurant Group) and eventually becoming

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Mercedes-Benz USA

About Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is the official US distributor for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars, SUVs, Mercedes-AMG performance vehicles, Mercedes-Maybach ultra-luxury vehicles, the EQ electric vehicle lineup, and Mercedes-Benz Vans — headquartered at One Mercedes-Benz Drive, Sandy Springs, Georgia 30328, in the affluent northern Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs (Fulton County), approximately 15 miles north of Downtown Atlanta. MBUSA was founded in 1965 after Mercedes-Benz cars had previously been sold in the US through Mercedes-Benz Car Sales, Inc., a subsidiary of Studebaker-Packard Corporation. MBUSA is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mercedes-Benz Group AG (formerly Daimler AG), headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany — one of the world’s oldest and most storied automotive manufacturers, founded when Carl Benz patented the first gasoline-powered automobile

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NAPA Auto Parts

About NAPA Auto Parts — formally the National Automotive Parts Association — is the largest automotive parts distribution network in the United States, operating as a division of Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC), an Atlanta-based Fortune 500 company headquartered at 2999 Wildwood Parkway SE, Atlanta (Marietta/Cobb County), Georgia 30339. NAPA was established in 1925 in Atlanta, Georgia, by a group of independent auto parts distributors who recognized the need for a coordinated national supply chain for replacement automotive parts — making it one of the oldest and most recognized names in the US automotive aftermarket. Today, the NAPA network spans nearly 6,000 US auto parts stores (a mix of company-owned and independently operated stores), supported by approximately 57 company-owned distribution

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Zaxby’s

About Zaxby’s is an American fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in chicken — operating under two primary corporate entities: Zaxby’s Holdings, L.L.C., headquartered at 1040 Founders Boulevard, Suite 100, Athens, Georgia 30606 (the founding city and home of the Holdings and parent corporate entity), and Zaxby’s Franchising LLC, with its primary operational and franchising headquarters at 2002 Summit Boulevard, Floor 12, Atlanta, Georgia 30319 (the active franchising and brand operations center). Zaxby’s was founded in 1990 in Athens, Georgia by Zach McLeroy and Tony Townley — originally as a single restaurant in Athens — and has grown into one of the most recognized fast-casual chicken chains in the American South and Southeast, serving signature Chicken Fingerz™, Zalads®, bone-in and boneless wings,

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Orkin

About Orkin, LLC is America’s largest and most recognized pest control company, headquartered at 2170 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30324 — a campus shared with its parent company, Rollins, Inc. (NYSE: ROL), the world’s largest pest control holding company. Orkin was founded in 1901 by Otto Orkin in Walnutport, Pennsylvania — originally as a door-to-door rat poison salesman before evolving into a full-service pest control company — making it one of the oldest pest management companies in the United States, now with over 120 years of operating history. Rollins, Inc. acquired Orkin in 1964, and Orkin has been the flagship brand of the Rollins portfolio ever since. The Rollins family — through CEO Glen Rollins and the broader Rollins

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