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Cellular Sales is a wireless retailing company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Company Overview of Cellular Sales Of Knoxville, Inc. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Company Overview )〕 It is recognized as the largest Verizon wireless retailer in the United States. Cellular Sales operates more than 560 retail stores across 28 states in the U.S. In 2012, the company was ranked on ''Inc. Magazine's'' Inc 5000 list as the 60th fastest growing U.S retailer.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Top Retail Companies on the 2012 Inc. 5000 )〕 Dane Scism is the company CEO, and its headquarters is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.〔 == Company history == In the early 1990s, Cellular Sales opened a retail kiosk in a mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Cellular Sales of Knoxville )〕 Dane and Margaret Scism purchased Cellular Sales in 1993. The main cellphone store was based in Knoxville and later moved to Kingston Pike. In 1996, the company bought out one of its contract partners, Mike Collins, and added its 4th and 5th locations. Cellular Sales continued to grow through the late 1990s and early 2000s by making its original independent sales representatives partners in new territory markets it opened. The company set itself apart from other cellular agents in the market by impressing a strict professional dress code. Cellular Sales marketed service on behalf of Cellular One and GTE Wireless prior to the advent of Verizon Wireless in April 2000. In 2009, the company opened 68 new stores across the country. Following its rapid growth, Cellular Sales was named to ''Inc. Magazine’s'' Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies, and was featured consistently from 2008 to 2011.〔 The company opened its 300th store in Blount County, Tennessee in April 2010.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Cellular Sales goes from a single cell phone store to the nation's largest retailer of Verizon Wireless )〕 Cellular Sales made $488.5 million in revenue in 2010.〔 The following year, the store opened its 400th store in Hope Mills, North Carolina.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Wish granted to Fayetteville girl during Cellular Sales Grand Opening event )〕 In 2012, following a 242% growth over a 36-month period, marked by a revenue increase of $207.3 million to $708.6 million. In 2013, the company’s revenue was over $1 billion.〔 In December 2015, the Cellular Sales consolidated four of its five Knoxville-area locations into one corporate headquarters. The building houses 350 of the company’s 4,500 employees〔〔 and includes a call center with 140 employees.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cellular Sales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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