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JM Family Enterprises Inc.
JM Family Enterprises, Inc. (JMFE) is a diversified automotive company. It is ranked by ''Forbes'' as the 17th largest privately held company in the U.S. The company is ranked on the ''Fortune (magazine), Fortune'' "100 Best Companies to Work For" list, and was No. 9 on the ''InformationWeek'' 500 list of the nation's leading information technology innovators. History Founded in 1968 by James M. (Jim) Moran, JM Family has grown from a core distribution business importing Japanese cars into a diversified automotive corporation whose principal businesses focus on vehicle distribution and processing, financial services, finance and insurance products, retail sales and dealer technology products and services. The company employs more than 4,000 people nationwide. Deerfield Beach became JMFE's corporate headquarters in 1981. Jacksonville architect Robert C. Broward designed the campus. Best Company to work for In 2016, JMFE was ranked 13th on Fortune magazine's article, "30 Best Work ... [...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] |