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〔 | num_employees = 5,500 〔 | homepage = }} L.L.Bean, Inc.,〔 branded as L.L.Bean, is an American, privately held, mail-order, online, and retail company founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean. The company is currently based in Freeport, Maine, United States. It specializes in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment. Its annual sales were USD $1.56 billion in 2013.〔 ==Company history== The company L.L.Bean was founded in 1912 by its namesake, avid hunter and fisherman Leon Leonwood Bean in Freeport, Maine. The company began as a one-room operation selling a single product, the Maine Hunting Shoe (known currently as the L.L.Bean Boot). Bean had developed a waterproof boot, which is a combination of lightweight leather uppers and rubber bottoms, that he sold to hunters. He obtained a list of nonresident Maine hunting license holders, prepared a descriptive mail order circular, set up a shop in his brother's basement in Freeport, Maine, and started a nationwide mail order business. By 1912, he was selling the "Bean Boot", or Maine Hunting Shoe, through a four-page mail-order catalog, and the boot remains a staple of the company's outdoor image. Defects in the initial design led to 90% of the original production run being returned: Bean made good on his money-back guarantee, corrected the design, and continued selling them.〔 In the past five years, L.L.Bean has donated over $6 million toward conservation and land stewardship. The 220,000 sq. ft. L.L.Bean retail store campus in Freeport, ME, is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and welcomes more than 3 million visitors every year. A privately held company, L.L.Bean does not publicly disclose financials. Leon L. Bean died on February 5, 1967, in Pompano Beach, Florida. He is buried in Freeport's Webster Cemetery.〔Rogak, Lisa (2004), ''Stones and Bones of New England: A guide to unusual, historic, and otherwise notable cemeteries'', Globe Pequat ISBN 0-7627-3000-5〕 The company passed into the directorship of Bean's grandson, Leon Gorman, from that time until 2001, when Gorman decided to take the position of Chairman, leaving the position of CEO to Christopher McCormick, the first non-family member to assume the title.〔 On May 19, 2013 Shawn Gorman, 47, a great-grandson of the company’s founder, was elected L.L.Bean’s chairman. The company announced a $125,000 donation to a new scholarship fund upon Leon's death in 2015, representing about 2.5 years of tuition at his alma mater, Bowdoin College. 〔http://www.pressherald.com/2015/10/01/l-l-bean-announces-donations-in-leon-gormans-name/〕 Stephen Smith was named CEO in November 2015. This is the first time in 103 years that a CEO has been hired from outside the company. 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「L.L.Bean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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