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Orphaned at age 12, Bean began to develop his entrepreneurial skills by doing odd jobs and by selling soap door-to-door. The founder of the company was a 40-year-old Maine out-doorsman named Leon Leonwood Bean. Early 20th-century Origins: The Maine Hunting Shoe Bean also enjoys a high reputation, among its corporate peers as well as its customers, for order fulfillment. The e-commerce web site has been operational since 1996. Bean Store in McLean, Virginia ten factory outlet stores and more than 20 independently owned retail stores in Japan) reached $206 million. Kids Store, adjacent to the flagship store a second L.L. Retail sales for 1999 (including those for the L.L. Bean stands for quality, value, and enduring style -so much so that each year more than three million visitors make pilgrimages to the company ’s original retail store, in Freeport, Maine, to soak up the Bean ambiance and the Bean bargains. For the solitary fisherman or the busy baby boomer, the name L.L. The 1999 catalogs, 70 in all, offered approximately 16,000 different items, most tied to the pursuit of outdoor, active lifestyles. Bean catalogs, a tradition since the company ’s founding, are the engine that drives company sales in 1999 the company took in $854 million from catalog sales alone. catalog company and the largest catalog supplier of outdoor gear in the world. Houses 451110 Sporting Goods Stores 448140 Family Clothing Stores NAIC: 454110 Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order