Toll Brothers

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Toll Brothers NYSE: TOL is a Horsham, Pennsylvania based company and the largest builder of luxury homes and luxury communities in the United States.

Toll Brothers
Type Public (NYSE: TOL)
Founded 1967
Headquarters Horsham, Pennsylvania

United States
Key people Robert I Toll, Chairman, CEO
Zvi Barzilay, COO
Bruce E Toll, Vice Chairman
Joel H Rassman, CFO
Products Homes
Revenue image:green up.png$5.86 billion USD (2005)
Employees 5,581 (2005)
Slogan America's Luxury Home Builder
Website www.tollbrothers.com

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[edit] Company Perspectives

Toll Brothers Inc. is the leading U.S. homebuilder, constructing some 8,000 homes annually. Most are single-family luxury residences. Toll is distinguished in its industry by a long record of profitability and revenue growth. Subsidiaries produce homebuilding supplies such as lumber products and offer a variety of consumer services ranging from insurance to cable television. Toll is active in about 300 communities in 20 states and is strongest in the Mid-Atlantic.

[edit] Key Dates

1967: The business is formed in Pennsylvania by Robert I. Toll and Bruce E. Toll. 1979: Annual revenues approach $50 million. 1982: Toll Brothers expands to New Jersey. 1986: A public offering raises $40 million. 1995: Geoffrey H. Edmunds & Associates is acquired, and the company expands into the Sunbelt. 1999: Detroit's Silverman Companies is acquired. 2003: Jacksonville, Florida-based Richard R. Dostie, Inc., and The Manhattan Building Company are acquired.

[edit] History

[edit] Markets

Toll Brothers operates in the following states:

[edit] Principal Subsidiaries

Advanced Broadband L.P.; Westminster Insurance Agency, Inc.; Westminster Mortgage Corporation; Westminster Title Company, Inc.; Toll Intergrated Services (TIS); Toll Landscape

[edit] Principal Competitors

Companies often competing in the same markets as Toll Brothers include Centex, D.R. Horton, KB Home, Lennar Corporation, Pulte Homes Inc., and Ryland Group Inc.

[edit] Sources

"Toll Brothers Inc.: Introduction." International Directory of Company Histories. Ed. Tina Grant. Vol. 70. Thomson Gale, 2005. eNotes.com. 2006. 24 Oct, 2006 <http://business.enotes.com/company-histories/ toll-brothers-inc>

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Philadelphia-based Corporations
(Within the Delaware Valley)
Philadelphia-based Fortune 500 Corporations (by size):
Sunoco | Comcast | CIGNA | Aramark | Rohm and Haas Company | Crown Holdings Incorporated | Lincoln National Corporation
Philadelphia-based Fortune 1000 Corporations (by size):

Companies listed above, plus Sovereign Bancorp | Pep Boys | FMC Corporation
Delaware Valley-based Fortune 1000 Corporations (by size):

Companies listed above, plus AmerisourceBergen | DuPont Company | Campbell Soup | Toll Brothers | Unisys | Jones Apparel Group | UGI Corporation | Ikon Office Solutions | Universal Health Services | SunGard Data Systems | Teleflex | Airgas | Vishay Intertechnology | Charming Shoppes | Commerce Bancorp | Hercules Inc. | Genesis HealthCare | Ametek
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GlaxoSmithKline (US Operations) | Burlington Coat Factory | Forman Mills


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