title: Quill Corporation
Discovery Toys
Kuwait Petroleum International
Watkins Incorporated
Joseph Ray Watkins
Carolina Actors Studio Theatre
Direct Sales and Anti-Pyramid Scheme Act 1993
Isagenix International
Carol Kalish
Smarketing
sentences: Quill Corporation is a United States office supply retailer, generating over one billion in sales and headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
 Quill.com has a growing assortment of over 1 million products, which it offers to more than 1 million small and mid-sized US business through Quill’s catalog, direct sales organization, 1-800 number and online at Quill.com.
 Over 70% of Quill's sales are conducted online.
 It is considered to be among the largest business-to-business direct markets of office supplies in United States, but it also sells products in other categories such as technology, cleaning & breakroom supplies, furniture, safety products and professional medical equipment through its Quill Healthcare unit.
 Quill is owned by Staples, Inc.,considered to be a part of its North American Commercial segment, and is recognized as their most profitable division, accounting for about 25% of the company's net income.
 Between 1998 and 2009, Quill grew from $500 million in revenues to over one billion.It employs only about 500 people and has 12 distribution centers.
 Opened in 1956, in 2016 Quill.com celebrated its 60th anniversary.
 It is also considered to be an A+ accredited business.
 The company is one of Staples' most profitable divisions and is led by Sergio Pereira, President of Quill Corporation.
Discovery Toys is a direct sales company specializing in educational toys.
 It functions with the typical direct sales model using party plan marketing, offering incentive trips and the earning of free merchandise.
 Its products are sold in the U.S. and Canada, and its headquarters are in Livermore, California.
Kuwait Petroleum International, often referred to by its trademark Q8 (pronounced Que-Eight, or Kuwait), refines and markets fuel, lubricants and other petroleum products in Europe.
 Established in 1983, it is the international subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
, It supplies 4,000 retail filling stations, as well as direct sales operations delivering fuel and heating oil to domestic and industrial users.
 Q8 also operates an International Diesel Service (IDS) - a secure fuel card service supported by automated technology for international road transportation companies - in more than 700 located sites throughout Europe.
 Q8 also has a significant aviation business marketing jet fuel at more than 40 airports worldwide and a lubricants business with five lubricants blending plants, direct sales and marketing activities across Europe and export sales to over 75 countries worldwide.
Watkins Incorporated is a manufacturer of health remedies, baking products, and other household items.
 The entire catalog includes 400 products.
 It is based in Winona, Minnesota, United States, which utilizes an Omni channel marketing strategy which includes a national retail sales force which focuses on selling to the retail channel as well as an independent sales force of 25,000 people to distribute its products.
 This independent sales force sells the products using various methods, including the Internet, person to person, trade shows, party planning, and fund-raising.
 In order to increase overall awareness for the brand, the company began offering products in national retail outlets such as Walmart, Target, Walgreens, Kroger and other mass, drug and grocery retail stores in 2005.
Joseph Ray Watkins (August 21, 1840 – December 21, 1911) was an American entrepreneur and founder of Watkins Incorporated with his homemade medical products – liniment, extracts, and salves.
 He offered the United States's first money back guarantee for his products and is credited as the founder of the direct sales industry.
Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) was an independent non-profit theatre company located at 2424 North Davidson Street in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 It was founded in 1992 by Charlotte acting instructor Ed Gilweit as an actor's teaching school.
 In 2000 Gilweit's company partnered with a video and stage production company run by Michael Simmons called Victory Pictures, Inc., and then with the fledgling theatre group Another Roadside Performance Company run by Robert Lee Simmons, Michael Simmons's son.
 Through this series of mergers, Gilweit and the Simmonses became the founders of the Carolina Actors Studio Theatre.
 After Gilweit's death in 2002, Michael Simmons became the Managing Artistic Director.
The Direct Sales and Anti-Pyramid Scheme Act 1993 (Malay: "Akta Jualan Langsung dan Skim Anti-Piramid 1993" ), is a Malaysian laws which enacted to provide for the licensing of persons carrying on direct sales business, for the regulation of direct selling, for prohibiting pyramid scheme or arrangement, chain distribution scheme or arrangement, or any similar scheme or arrangement, and for other matters connected therewith.
Isagenix International LLC is a direct sales company that markets dietary supplements and personal care products.
 The company, based in Gilbert, Arizona, was founded in 2002 by John Anderson, Jim Coover, and Kathy Coover.
 As of 2013 the company reported having over 200,000 active sales associates.
 In 2012, the company reported revenues of approximately $335 million.
 The majority of Isagenix's sales come from the United States.
Carol Kalish (February 14, 1955 – September 5, 1991) was an American writer, editor, comic book retailer, and sales manager.
 She worked as Direct Sales Manager and Vice President of New Product Development at Marvel Comics from 1981 to 1991.
 She is credited with pioneering the American comics direct market when it was in its adolescence, in part through a program wherein Marvel helped pay for comic book stores to acquire cash registers.
 She was the winner of an Inkpot Award in 1991, and in 2010 was posthumously awarded the first ComicsPRO Industry Appreciation Award, beating nominees such as Will Eisner, Julius Schwartz and Phil Seuling.
Smarketing is the process of integrating the sales and marketing processes of a business.
 The objective is for the sales and marketing functions to have a common integrated approach.
 This can lead to annual revenue growth of up to 20%, according to a study in 2010.
 The objective is to promote the product or service to potential buyers and at the same time integrate this process with the sales department's activities.
 Sales and marketing departments should meet frequently and agree on a common terminology, and using data throughout the entire sales and marketing process to identify good prospects and to follow up on how well they are followed up.
 Smarketing works best when a firm does "closed loop reporting" by tracking its success with particular prospects from the marketing stage through direct sales efforts.
 According to one source, Smarketing began around 2000 as a result of improved web browsing capabilities.

Question: Question: Where is the location of the company run by the founder of the direct sales industry? 

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 Discovery Toys is a direct sales company specializing in educational toys.
 It functions with the typical direct sales model using party plan marketing, offering incentive trips and the earning of free merchandise.
 Its products are sold in the U.S. and Canada, and its headquarters are in Livermore, California. 

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 Kuwait Petroleum International, often referred to by its trademark Q8 (pronounced Que-Eight, or Kuwait), refines and markets fuel, lubricants and other petroleum products in Europe.
 Established in 1983, it is the international subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
, It supplies 4,000 retail filling stations, as well as direct sales operations delivering fuel and heating oil to domestic and industrial users.
 Q8 also operates an International Diesel Service (IDS) - a secure fuel card service supported by automated technology for international road transportation companies - in more than 700 located sites throughout Europe.
 Q8 also has a significant aviation business marketing jet fuel at more than 40 airports worldwide and a lubricants business with five lubricants blending plants, direct sales and marketing activities across Europe and export sales to over 75 countries worldwide. 

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 Watkins Incorporated is a manufacturer of health remedies, baking products, and other household items.
 The entire catalog includes 400 products.
 It is based in Winona, Minnesota, United States, which utilizes an Omni channel marketing strategy which includes a national retail sales force which focuses on selling to the retail channel as well as an independent sales force of 25,000 people to distribute its products.
 This independent sales force sells the products using various methods, including the Internet, person to person, trade shows, party planning, and fund-raising.
 In order to increase overall awareness for the brand, the company began offering products in national retail outlets such as Walmart, Target, Walgreens, Kroger and other mass, drug and grocery retail stores in 2005. 

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 Joseph Ray Watkins (August 21, 1840 – December 21, 1911) was an American entrepreneur and founder of Watkins Incorporated with his homemade medical products – liniment, extracts, and salves.
 He offered the United States's first money back guarantee for his products and is credited as the founder of the direct sales industry. 

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 Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) was an independent non-profit theatre company located at 2424 North Davidson Street in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 It was founded in 1992 by Charlotte acting instructor Ed Gilweit as an actor's teaching school.
 In 2000 Gilweit's company partnered with a video and stage production company run by Michael Simmons called Victory Pictures, Inc., and then with the fledgling theatre group Another Roadside Performance Company run by Robert Lee Simmons, Michael Simmons's son.
 Through this series of mergers, Gilweit and the Simmonses became the founders of the Carolina Actors Studio Theatre.
 After Gilweit's death in 2002, Michael Simmons became the Managing Artistic Director. 

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 The Direct Sales and Anti-Pyramid Scheme Act 1993 (Malay: "Akta Jualan Langsung dan Skim Anti-Piramid 1993" ), is a Malaysian laws which enacted to provide for the licensing of persons carrying on direct sales business, for the regulation of direct selling, for prohibiting pyramid scheme or arrangement, chain distribution scheme or arrangement, or any similar scheme or arrangement, and for other matters connected therewith. 

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 Carol Kalish (February 14, 1955 – September 5, 1991) was an American writer, editor, comic book retailer, and sales manager.
 She worked as Direct Sales Manager and Vice President of New Product Development at Marvel Comics from 1981 to 1991.
 She is credited with pioneering the American comics direct market when it was in its adolescence, in part through a program wherein Marvel helped pay for comic book stores to acquire cash registers.
 She was the winner of an Inkpot Award in 1991, and in 2010 was posthumously awarded the first ComicsPRO Industry Appreciation Award, beating nominees such as Will Eisner, Julius Schwartz and Phil Seuling. 

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 Smarketing is the process of integrating the sales and marketing processes of a business.
 The objective is for the sales and marketing functions to have a common integrated approach.
 This can lead to annual revenue growth of up to 20%, according to a study in 2010.
 The objective is to promote the product or service to potential buyers and at the same time integrate this process with the sales department's activities.
 Sales and marketing departments should meet frequently and agree on a common terminology, and using data throughout the entire sales and marketing process to identify good prospects and to follow up on how well they are followed up.
 Smarketing works best when a firm does "closed loop reporting" by tracking its success with particular prospects from the marketing stage through direct sales efforts.
 According to one source, Smarketing began around 2000 as a result of improved web browsing capabilities. 

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Answer: Winona, Minnesota, United States