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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | August 1972 |
| Headquarters | Oklahoma City, OK |
| Key people | CEO: David Green |
| Employees | 18,000 |
| Website | HobbyLobby.com |
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Hobby Lobby is a privately held retail chain of arts and crafts stores based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is formally called Hobby Lobby Creative Centers.
Founded by David Green on August 3, 1972, the chain has more than 456 stores in 39 states. Hobby Lobby headquarters are located in a 3,400,000-square-foot (320,000 m2) manufacturing, distribution and office complex.
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Business practices
Stores do not use a barcode system and therefore rely on the hand pricing and ordering of items. The Website states they ″do not feel it is right for us at this time.″[1]
Hobby Lobby delivers the same music to its individual locations via satellite from headquarters. This music blends light jazz, classical, bluegrass, and contemporary music styles (a large percentage of the chosen music is instrumental adaptations of traditional Christian hymns) into one single playlist which loops continuously. [2]
Hobby Lobby locations have general operating hours from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Except for the Distribution Center on certain days during the winter holiday season, all locations are closed on Sundays, out of respect for the founder's Christian beliefs.[3] References to Christianity are often made in their stores and advertisements.[4] Full page ads are purchased in each location's local papers on Christmas & Easter each year. This is in addition to the sales ads that are published each week, also on a Sunday in most areas.
Affiliated companies
- Mardel - a Christian bookstore chain
- Hemispheres - a home furnishings company
- Crafts Etc! - a craft wholesaler and online retailer
- H.L. Construction - which handles the construction and renovation of Hobby Lobby stores
- Ethnographic Media - formerly Bearing Fruit Communications - an advertising agency
- Hong Kong Connection - Chinese sourcing and buying office
Hobby Lobby International
Hobby Lobby Creative Centers is not related to Hobby Lobby International, a dealer specializing in radio controlled model aircraft.
References
- ^ "Hobby Lobby Frequently Asked Questions". Hobby Lobby. http://www.hobbylobby.com/customer_service/faq.cfm#scanner. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Hobby Lobby. Archived from the original on 2006-12-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20061228052859/http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/store/music.cfm. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
- ^ "Hobby Lobby Frequently Asked Questions". Hobby Lobby. http://www.hobbylobby.com/customer_service/faq.cfm#sunday. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
- ^ Hobby Lobby Buys Ads Nationwide to Explain Easter, Christian Post, April 4, 2010
External links
- Hobby Lobby website
- Voices of Oklahoma interview with David Green. First person interview conducted with David Green, Founder/Owner of Hobby Lobby on October 6, 2009. Original audio and transcript archived with Voices of Oklahoma oral history project.Hobby Lobby
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