INDEX: Verizon Merchandising Display Fixtures

INDEX:
Verizon Merchandising Display Fixtures

Verizon Merchandising Display Fixtures

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This Verizon Merchandising Display Fixtures index page aggregates links
to all post and photos of retail merchandising, display, and outfitting
as well as deep Background courtesy of Wikipedia.

BACKSTORY: Verizon Communications Inc. (/vəˈraɪzən/ və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City.^[3] It is the world’s second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 146 million subscribers as of December 31, 2024.^[10]

The company was formed in 1983 as Bell Atlanticas a result of the breakup of the Bell System into seven companies, each a Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC), commonly referred to as “Baby Bells.”^[11] The company was originally headquartered in Philadelphia and operated in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

In 1997, Bell Atlantic expanded into New York and the New England states by merging with fellow Baby Bell NYNEX. While Bell Atlantic was the surviving company, the merged company moved its headquarters from Philadelphia to NYNEX’s old headquarters in New York City. In 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE, which operated telecommunications companies across most of the rest of the country not already in Bell Atlantic’s footprint. Bell Atlantic, the surviving entity, changed its name to Verizon, a portmanteau of veritas (Latin for “truth”) and horizon.^[12]

In 2015, Verizon expanded into content ownership by acquiring AOL,^[13]^[14] and two years later, it acquired Yahoo! Inc.^[15] AOL and Yahoo were amalgamated into a new division named Oath Inc.,^[16] which was rebranded as Verizon Media in January 2019, and was spun off and rebranded to Yahoo! Inc. after its sale to Apollo Global Management.

As of 2016, Verizon is one of three remaining companies with roots in the former Baby Bells. The other two, like Verizon, exist as a result of mergers among fellow former Baby Bell members. SBC Communications bought the Bells’ former parent AT&T Corporation and took on the AT&T name, and CenturyLink acquired Qwest (formerly US West) in 2011 and later became Lumen Technologies in 2020.

Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 at $50 per share, for a deal valued around $4.4 billion.^[141]^[142] The following year, Verizon announced it would acquire the core internet business of Yahoo! for $4.83 billion.^[15]^[143]^[144] Following the completion of the acquisitions, Verizon created a new division called Oath, which includes the AOL and Yahoo brands.^[16] The sale did not include Yahoo’s stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan.^[145]^[146]

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam in 2017 confirmed the company plans to launch a streaming TV service.^[147] The integrated AOL-Yahoo operation, housed under the newly created Oath division, would be organized around key content-based pillars.^[148]

Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo for $4.48 billion on June 13, 2017.^[149]

Verizon sold its media group, including AOL and Yahoo, to Apollo Global Management for $5 billion in 2021,^[150] with Verizon retaining a 10% stake in the division.^[151]

For the fiscal year 2024, Verizon reported earnings of US$17.95 billion, with an annual revenue of US$134.788 billion, an increase of 0.6% over the previous fiscal cycle. Verizon’s shares traded at over $45 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$163.96 billion in January 2025.^[152] Verizon is currently ranked #31 in the Fortune 500 for 2023 and #68 in the Fortune Global 500.

The company offers Internet, traditional landline phone or VoIP, Home Security, Premium Television, Web Hosting and wholesale data in nine states’ footprint across the eastern United States.^[153]^[154]^[155] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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