Amazon is a cloud computing giant and the largest American e-commerce company. It was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. Originally known for selling books through its website (and later digital versions via its Kindle e-reader), Amazon has built up a customer service, inventory, and shipping empire that allows the site to offer everything from clothes to lawn furniture to janitorial supplies. It also sells digital content like movies, music, and apps. Its Amazon Web Services arm is a multi-billion-dollar provider of cloud-based services for millions of business customers around the world, including government agencies and universities. And it’s a major player in consumer electronics—not only by offering devices such as Fire tablets and TV boxes but also via its Alexa AI assistant service, which made news at the CES 2017 gadget show by being built into everything from LG refrigerators to Ford cars. Amazon is even a Hollywood player, taking home two awards at the 2017 Golden Globes.

Yet the basics of Bezos's business philosophy—focusing on long-term customer loyalty over short-term profits and never-ending expansion into new businesses—have been surprisingly consistent over the years. And Amazon's obsession with efficiency explains why it's now delivering products in just two hours via its Prime Now service, and why it hopes to be among the first e-commerce companies to deploy its own fleet of drones with Amazon Prime Air, a future fleet of autonomous aerial vehicles that will deliver packages under five pounds. In an interesting twist, Amazon opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle and plans to open more in 2017. The stores are substantially different from the hundreds of traditional bookstores that it has obliterated since entering the market: The Amazon stores are largely showrooms and include machines that allow shoppers to read online user reviews for each item. Top perks for employees: Amazon is well known for not indulging in much in the way of flashy perks.

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The Warmack Co. also began making steel lawn furniture for all of those postwar families and new houses with backyards springing up throughout the country. Demand increased for metal lawn chairs, gliders, matching steel lawn tables, and swivel-based platform rockers. The company soon became the biggest steel lawn furniture manufacturer in the U.S. Some lines were designed exclusively for the Sears department store and were featured in their seasonal catalogs. In 1954, Flanders Industries bought the metal lawn furniture company from Warmack and continued production until 1996. By then, the more sophisticated outdoor casual furniture industry was in full swing, and consumers wanted large, comfortable, upholstered patio furniture to fill up their outdoor rooms. The less expensive casual furniture--including those metal lawn chairs--had been replaced by plastic and resin chairs that were lightweight and stackable. In 2002, a nostalgia-minded couple named Louis and Kathy Torrans and their appropriately named Torrans Manufacturing Company reintroduced the same collection of iconic metal lawn furniture, along with some tweaks and updates.

They have the molds and tooling to produce several different styles of vintage-inspired chairs and gliders. Minor modifications have been made to improve upon Warmack's classic designs, and the Torrans consider the chairs and other pieces to be "continuations and not reproductions or copies" of the originals. One change: Torrans Manufacturing Co.'s metal chairs are heavier, sturdier, and generally more substantial than the original Mid-century models. Torrans' metal garden furniture receives an exterior-grade UV-resistant powder-coated finish that they maintain is comparable in hardness to the finish of contemporary automobile paints. There's much more of a variety of colors available with the new lines of stamped metal furniture: turquoise, lime, green, white, blue, maroon, orange, purple, red, seafoam, aqua, honeydew, raspberry, tangerine, huckleberry, lemon, pear, sunkiss, coral, honeycomb, and yellow. Capitalizing on the retro theme of their products, Torrans' lines include Mad Men-era-sounding names like the Bellaire, the Thunderbird, the Americana, the Parklane, the Belvedere, the Skylark, and the Riviera collections.