A business man, an entrepreneur, enterpriser, there’s a small range of things H. Wayne Huizenga is not. From building an empire of sports franchises, including baseball’s Florida Marlins; hockey’s Florida Panthers; and football’s Miami Dolphins, to turning struggling companies into huge enterprises like blockbuster and waste management, there is no doubt the limitations of H Wayne Huizenga. Many would claim Huizenga is an alchemist, because of his history of turning anything into gold. Harry Wayne Huizenga was born on December 29, 1939, at the Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, a small town in Chicago. Huizenga’s parents were Dutch immigrants who moved to the U.S. seeking work. His dad, Gerrit Harry Huizenga was a …show more content…
After that, Huizenga decided to join the army briefly and arrived back to receive a job as a garbage truck driver from his dad’s friend in Pompano Beach, Florida. Huizenga received advice from his dad “You can’t make any real money working for someone” and he decided to take it and start his own garbage collection business in 1962, and named it Southern Sanitation Service. With a little financial help from his father-in-law, he started with one garbage truck and due to the expeditious growth in Southern Florida, his business skyrocketed. In 1968, Huizenga renamed his business Waste Management which today is the world’s biggest garbage collection company. After much success with waste management, including buying 90 competing trash collection companies and annual revenue at excess of $1 billion a year, Huizenga decided to leave WM and went on to buying hotels, warehouses, pest control companies, office building, etc. In 1987, a former associate a WM had persuaded Huizenga to look into blockbuster. Huizenga then bought 43% of the company at $18 million. By 1991 blockbuster had expanded world-wide with more than 2,000 stores. In 1994 Huizenga sold his shares of blockbuster for $8.4 billion to Viacom Inc. (owners of MTV). Huizenga then switched his focus to sports. Huizenga bought 15% of the Miami Dolphins and would later go on to purchasing the rest of the team, as well becoming the owner of the Marlins. He sold the team before their 1997 World Series win, but made it up to the city of Miami by spending $50 million to win a NHL expansion team, the Florida panthers. Today H Wayne Huizenga is worth 2.6 billion with business ties ranging from Theme parks, auto motives, and entertainment groups, along with being chairman of growing hotel chain; Extended
Oscar De La Hoya is a famous professional boxer. He is known all over the world for his looks, talent in the ring and his great sportsmanship. He is one of the best fighters in the field of boxing and a good role model for young children in the world today. PERSONAL Oscar De La Hoya lives and was born in East Los Angeles, California on February 4, 1973. His parents names are Joel, a former professional boxer from Durango, Mexico, and Dona Cecilia De La Hoya.
That evidence was clear Monday as Redbox, the nation's largest DVD rental company, agreed to spend up to $100 million to acquire Blockbuster-branded DVD kiosks operated by its largest rival, NCR Corp., adding about 9,000 machines to its existing 35,400 (LA times 2012).
In 1985, Blockbuster opened its first store in Dallas, Texas. After the first few stores opened, founder David Cook built a six million dollar warehouse, which could pull and package multiple stores in a day. Blockbuster’s ability to customize a store to its neighborhood, loading it up with films geared specifically to demographic profiles in addition to the popular new releases, and a sizable collection of catalog titles. Blockbuster had instant success. In the early 1980’s and 1990’s Blockbuster put neighborhood mom and pop video stores out of business by offering better selection and convenience. However, success like that enjoyed by Blockbuster can foster arrogance. For Blockbuster, arrogance meant they believed they could do anything within their stores. For example, Blockbuster purchased Sound Music and Music Plus chains. This move took Blockbuster from movies to music. Secondly, this Blockbuster Music meant they were no longer renting now they were selling.
Blockbuster LLC is a video rental company that was founded in 1985 by David Cook. In 1986, Blockbuster went public and was sold to Viacom in 1994. Blockbuster was able to maintain high ratings through 1980s and 1990s, but as the millennium approached competition arose and Blockbuster’s market value began to decline.
Howard Robert Hughes was born in Huston, Texas in 1905(Moore 92). His father, Robert Hughes, became well known for building oil drilling tools for major corporations such as Standard oil (Nicholas 48). His mother Jane was a frail woman who had a serious case of obsessive compulsive disorder towards hygiene and lived and made her son live in fear of germs for his whole life (Simikin 10). At the age of 52, Robert Hughes died of stomach cancer and left his company to his son Howard (Nicholas 48). Having no interest in the oil machinery business, Howard left the company to his cousins and left Texas.
Many individuals who go through challenging things in life, change and grow eventually. People who are going through these phases and problems without any help are accustomed to being self dependent. They become more mature, and learn how to handle things at their own rate. As for others, taking in difficult things in life, can be hard for them. They don’t necessarily handle things correctly, leaving them to ignore these challenges and find other ways so they won’t have to deal with them. Because of this, some people may be emotionally drained and messed up in the head, leaving them to get no help at all. They become isolated, and their lifestyle becomes hard. Some become heartless, leading them to be mean to others. Haymitch who appears to
Tom Harkins was born November 19, 1939 in Cummings, IA with his three brothers and two sisters. He’s a father with two kids, went to Iowa State University, and an Navy Veteran. His father was a coal miner and his mother was a immigrant from Slovenia who died when he was only ten. He also worked a variety of jobs. “In his youth such as a farmer, a newspaper boy, in construction, and at a bottling plant(“TomHarkin”). Learning the meaning of hard work and how extremely important family is to one. He also
Howard Pyle was born on March 5 1853 in Wilmington, Del and died on November 9, 1911 on Florence. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Mr. Pyle was an “American illustrator, painter, and author, best known for the children’s books that he wrote and illustrated.”(Editors of EB). Paul Giambarba, writer of 100 Years of Illustration states that “Academics usually refer to Howard Pyle as one of the greatest illustrators of his time.”(Giambarba) and in his personal opinion “was the greatest and the best” (Giambarba) illustrator. Paul goes onto to state that “Pyle was not content to continue copying himself in the same old way as they did for the most part, and he was at least as prodigious, turning out two illustrations a week, or 3,300 published illustrations during a 35-year career. Included among these were almost 200 stories that he wrote as well as illustrated.”(Giambarba)
business. He began as a backyard mechanic and now ten years later runs a very
[1] Information was mainly taken from the Harvard Business Case Study “The Walt Disney Company: The Entertainment King”
Richard Lovelace was one of the most attractive and witty poets of the early 17th century. During this century his poems spoke of love and the honor of oneself to stand for what you truly stand for. Lovelace was an attractive looks and political mind that took him too many places in his life. Lovelace lived a life of poetic success in his life. Some of his life decisions brought him down from his former glory days. Lovelace political works led him to be a poet, political strategist and influential teacher (NNDB) .
On October 26,1993, NFL owners selected the Carolina Panthers as the 29th franchise team since 1976. Fans were wildly excited hearing this news. “This is a dream come true for me and my panthers and for the 10 million people in the Carolinas," said Carolina Panthers Owner/Founder Jerry Richardson, who became just the second former player to own an NFL team along with George Halas of the Chicago Bears.
Blockbuster founded in 1985 by David Cook, the first store opened in Dallas, Texas. At its peak, Blockbuster had up to sixty thousand employees and more than nine thousand stores.[4] “With more than 8,000 VHS tapes in more than 6,500 titles, Blockbuster store was three times larger than its nearest competitor. Unlike other video chains that stored movies behind the counter, Blockbuster displayed titles on shelves.” [2] It became the giant movies and video games rental chain. So, why such a giant entertainment provider ended up filed for bankruptcy and closing thousands of it stores? It leaves you with a weird memory and hard to get worked up about a once massive corporation, but still dewy-eyed recalling a trip to brin...
To facilitate the growth trends shown by Blockbuster since its inception, David Cook contacted H. Wayne Huizenga, a former colleague, as an investment opportunity. Huizenga bit at the opportunity and invested his own time and money as well into the expansion of Blockbuster. To summarize the extent of the growth of Blockbuster stores from the 1980s to 2002, gross revenue went from about $75,000 in the 1980s to over $6,000,000,000 by 2006. From the start of several stores in the 1980s, Blockbuster grew to as many as 5,803 as of the end of 2004. Additionally, the company has expanded into 29 countries including countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. It has been estimated that there are more than 43 million American households with a membership to Blockbuster.