Friday, March 22, 2013
A committee supporting Harold Sanger is leading the Clayton mayoral race in total fundraising.
A committee supporting Harold Sanger's bid to become the next mayor of Clayton has raised several thousand dollars more than each opponent's committee. Sanger, a former Clayton alderman, raised $28,403 in contributions through Feb. 21, according to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with St. Louis County. Documents show that Ward 2 Alderwoman Michelle Harris raised $18,225 through Feb. 21 and Ward 3 Alderman Alex Berger III raised $13,710 through Feb. 20. Jack Taylor, the founder of Enterprise, and former State Rep. Barbara Fraser were among the notable contributors to Sanger's campaign. Sanger received 15 separate contributions of $500 or more, including a $2,000 contribution from Taylor. See a full list of contributions for…
Friday, December 21, 2012
Forbes released its list of top private American companies. Enterprise Holdings in Clayton is among the largest.
Enterprise Holdings, North America's largest car rental company, is also one of the largest private companies in the United States. The Clayton-based company is the 20th largest private American company, according to a ranking from Forbes that was reported by the St. Louis Business Journal on Wednesday: Enterprise Holdings ranked No. 20 this year on Forbes' list with 2012 revenue of $13.5 billion and more than 74,000 employees companywide. Enterprise ranked No. 15 on the Forbes list last year and topped the Business Journal's Top 150 Privately-Held Companies list this year. To see which other St. Louis companies made the list, read the full article on the St. Louis Business Journal website. Enterprise has been headquartered in Clayton …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The company started by this Clayton High School graduate began with two employees. Enterprise Holdings now employs 70,000 people worldwide, and thousands of them work in Clayton.
Enterprise Holdings founder Jack Taylor grew up in St. Louis, graduated from Clayton High School and attended Westminster College and Washington University in St. Louis, a company biography states. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and he served as an F6F Hellcat fighter pilot while based with the U.S.S. Essex and U.S.S. Enterprise. After he came back to St. Louis, he started a trucking company in Clayton before accepting a sales job with Lindburg Cadillac in 1948, the biography states. Less than a decade later, he launched his own company—then called Executive Leasing—in the same building. While he no longer works actively with Enterprise, a family connection remains: His son, Andrew C. Taylor, is its chief …
