Maybe you’re interested in making an investment and you want to find out more about a particular company. Or maybe you’re like me, and you live for trivia lists. They’re a good way to get a lot of fun information quickly. You would be surprised at how often you’re able to work the information into a conversation or answer a question at trivia night with some little-known fact you dug up online.
Whatever brings you here, in this article we’re going to look at five fun facts about Lear Capital – and one of them may surprise you!
California Dreaming
If you’re wondering where the company is located, I’ll tell you! It is right in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the United States, Los Angeles. That’s right. Just a hop, skip, and a jump away from Graupman’s Chinese Theater and the Star Walk is a new investment company.
The sun shines more than three hundred days a year in Los Angeles. There are many different neighborhoods that make up the city. You may have heard about Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Century City, Silverlake, Westwood, or Los Felis on television. That’s because they are all neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Wave hi on your way to the beach!
Nineties Kids Remember
Our next fact about the business is that it was founded in 1997. That means that if the company were a person, it would now be eligible to vote and to drink. Of course, a company is not a person. Instead, it only exists as a means to exchange capital between two or more interested parties. How would it even begin to try to drink a beer?
Much of the world has changed since 1997. Gas was under two dollars a gallon back then. Now it’s more than four and rapidly rising. Back then, few people had access to the internet in their homes. Now, we carry the internet around with us in our back pocket at all times.
This comes in handy when we absolutely need to find out how much Happy the Hippo beanie baby is worth without delay.
Lights, Camera, Action!
You may have heard about the company through their television ads. Did you know that over sixteen billion dollars are spent on television advertising in the United States every year?
If you’ve been paying attention when you watch TV shows and movies, you may have noticed that not all of that money is spent on commercials. When products are featured in a show or a movie, many times it is because the company has paid for it to be there.
More people than ever are streaming their entertainment online, and many of these services offer a way to opt out of commercials or skip them easily. So, when you see someone drinking a Slippery Apple diet iced tea drink, you can bet it was because the company paid for it to be there.
For more information about commercials, click here. Did you know that the number of commercials has increased since 2010, but the length has decreased? Networks have also started showing sped up reruns so they can show more commercials in the same amount of time. They pitch-correct the actors so their voices don’t sound strange, but it still seems odd.
Growing Pains
Since the company predates widespread internet usage, it has had to grow with the times. Like many companies, you can do most of your transactions online. That means you can make decisions and track changes any time, day or night. If you’re a night owl like me, that’s a plus!
Now their website is a valuable resource for those interested in learning more about the company and the services it offers. Maybe they took a page from TY, Inc, the company that had such a huge hit with beanie babies in 1997. They were one of the first to make product information available online. This created an active fanbase that helped to propel their profits into the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Accreditation
Did you know that the Better Business Bureau offers accreditation? Think of it like getting verified on Twitter. Just like the blue check mark on a profile lets you know that you’re reading the real Taylor Swift’s account, an accreditation lets you know that the business has been registered with the government in order to make things more transparent for you, the consumer.
Click this link: https://www.bbb.org/ to visit the Better Business Bureau’s site and find out more about the services they offer. Their current scam tracker is a great resource and could prove to provide information you or a loved one might need about scammers and their tactics.
It’s always fun and exciting to learn more information about a company everyone has heard about. Next time you need an icebreaker at a party, you’re all set!