{"id":44,"date":"2012-11-07T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2012\/11\/company-snapshot-aarons-inc\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:23:00","slug":"company-snapshot-aarons-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/11\/company-snapshot-aarons-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Aaron&#039;s Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span>Address:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span>309 E. Paces Ferry Rd, N.E.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Atlanta, Georgia 30305<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span>Telephone:<\/span><\/strong><span><br \/>\n404 231-0011<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span>Fax:<\/span><\/strong><span><br \/>\n404 240-6520<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span>Year Founded:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1955<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span>Total Stores:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n2<span>010<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span>Total Annual Sales:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n$<span>2,024,049,000<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span>Senior Executives:<\/span><\/strong><span><br \/>\nR. Charles Loudermilk, Sr.- Chairman Emeritus<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Ronald W. Allen- President and Chief Executive Officer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.75pt;\"><span>Aaron&#8217;s, Inc. was founded in 1955 by R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr., and a partner after they borrowed $500 to purchase three hundred lawn chairs and rented them for ten cents apiece per day to auction houses. \u2018Aarons Rents\u2019 has been a phrase associated with the company ever since. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.75pt;\"><span>Mr. Loudermilk recently stepped into his current role as Chairman Emeritus after vacating his long held title as Chairman just this year, fifty-five years after he founded company. At about the same time the company opened its 2,000<sup>th<\/sup>store.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron&#8217;s, Inc. was founded in 1955 by R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr., and a partner after they borrowed $500 to purchase three hundred lawn chairs and rented them for ten cents apiece per day to auction houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}