1919 headquarters cincinnati ohio website http organizedliving.com organized living former industry retail founded kansas 1985 revenue usd est. 75 100 million in 2004 05 1 number of employees 1000 in 2004 05 2 website organizedliving.com organized living formerly known as schulte corp. 3 is a company that manufactures storage and organization products for the home sold through independent dealers in the united states and canada . 4 prior to 2007 organized living was a specialty retail chain in the united states that sold storage solutions for home and office . in 1985 mark ferrel founded the company as containers unlimited in kansas 1 2 with its first location in overland park . 5 in 1993 the then two store chain changed its name from containers and more to organized living . 6 by mid 1996 the chain had three stores the original location plus two others in st. louis and next expanded by adding two stores in las vegas in early 1997 . 5 as it grew the company consciously decided to focus expansion on markets not already served by the container store its primary competitor . 7 as of mid 2000 the chain had grown to 11 stores . 8 the store eventually grew to 25 stores before filing for bankruptcy in 2005 after planned financing did not come to fruition . 9 1 after private equity firm saunders karp & megrue bought a majority stake in the company 2 the former head of bath & body works beth pritchard was hired in january 2004 to grow the chain into a national presence . 10 pritchard also moved the company s headquarters from lenexa kansas in the kansas city area to westerville ohio near columbus . 1 pritchard was released in may 2005 during the bankruptcy proceedings . 11 pritchard cited changes in saunder karp s commitment to finance growth as the cause of the collapse . 2 schulte corp. one of the company s biggest creditors obtained rights to the organized living name in the bankruptcy proceedings and operated organizedliving.com as an online retailer through 2012 . 12 on january 1 2013 schulte corp. changed its corporate name to organized living and relaunched organizedliving.com as its new website . 13 14 see also edit hold everything store retail storage chain that closed in 2006 storables the container store references edit a b c d goins tony june 24 2005 . organized living liquidating stores . columbus business first . retrieved oct 26 2009 . a b c d buchanan doug july 1 2005 . sad deal as organized living fails . columbus business first . retrieved oct 26 2009 . what s in a name for this brand everything . . cincinnati enquirer . retrieved 27 march 2014 . about us . organizedliving.com . retrieved 27 march 2014 . a b organized living goes west expanding in las vegas nevada . hfn . june 24 1996 . retrieved oct 27 2009 . business plus bulletin board . st. louis post dispatch . january 11 1993 . retrieved october 26 2009 . organized living stresses solutions . hfn . september 21 1998 . retrieved october 27 2009 . upscale organized living opening at the summit . birmingham business journal . june 9 2000 . retrieved oct 26 2009 . dead link organized living chapter 11 petition pdf . pacermonitor . retrieved 7 june 2016 . organized living names new ceo . kansas city business journal . january 16 2004 . retrieved october 26 2009 . goins tony may 16 2005 . organized living cuts chief in chapter 11 . columbus business first . retrieved october 26 2009 . firm shelves brass pipes for organized living chain . business courier of cincinnati . march 30 2007 . retrieved oct 26 2009 . organized living launches a new website and rebrands benefiting from 90 years of schulte experience . digital journal . retrieved 27 march 2014 . about us . organizedliving.com . retrieved 15 april 2014 . external links edit organizedliving.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title organized living & oldid 743395625 categories companies based in cincinnaticompanies that have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcyonline retailers of the united statesretail companies established in 1985companies that filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005manufacturing companies established in 1919hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from december 2010pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 13 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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