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Georgetown Bagelry
Georgetown Bagelry is a bagel bakery in the Washington, D.C. area, founded in 1981. Its first location was on M street downtown, and it is now located in Bethesda, Maryland. For several years, it was voted by the ''Washington City Paper'' as having the best bagels in the area. The company specializes in New York style bagel, New York–style bagels which are made by boiling dough. History Founder The founder of the Bagelry was Erik Koefoed; when he was 27, he dropped out of school at Cornell University and opened the Georgetown Bagelry. At that time there were only two bakeries in the Washington D.C. area. He decided to make New York–style bagels. In Ithaca, New York he learned to make New York style bagels during the day and he studied music at night. The business was not doing well in the late 1980s, and Mary Beall Adler took over the bakery and moved it to River Road. She has been the owner of the business Georgetown Bagelry since 1991. In 2014, Georgetown Bagelry was name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |