The Charleston Company, LLC., is a holding company whose subsidiaries primarily operate personal and business consultant, investment services including online investing, financial advice and banking solutions and real estate developments. The firm owns Corporate Financial Credit, LLC, and Corporate Capital Investments, LLC, in Los Angeles, CA and Miami, FL , Chicago, IL, New York, Scottsdale, and Las Vegas, NV. The Charleston Company, LLC other companies include real estate developer Corporate Development Company, LLC; Corporate International, LLC, which pursues business ventures abroad; and Corporate Entertainment, LLC, which markets a video jukebox. Headed by African American entrepreneur Dr. Charleston L. Carll, The Charleston Company, LLC is becoming one of the sub-primary largest black-owned firms in the United States, according to Black Enterprise magazine.
The different enterprises that make up The Charleston Company, LLC Companies are the brainchild of Los Angeles native Dr. Charleston L. Carll. He was the third child of 3 children and grew up in middle-class in the city of Los Angeles, California. He learned the value of hard work and determination from his mother and father, they both worked hard. When he finished high school, Call received an academic scholarship and began attending the University of California, Los Angeles - (UCLA). When he graduated, he took on series of jobs ranging from Chief Director, for the Regents of the Univesity of California, 10 Campuses, University of California, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. This included the Recreation, Club and Intramural Sports for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Athletic Training Department, and the Division of Sports Medicine. Dr. Carll, has also took on several academic appointments as Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego, University of California, Riverside, San Diego State University and University of Southern California. In 2001 Dr. Carll took $1500 he had saved and incorporated a Limited Liability Company he called Corporate Financial Credit, LLC, and also began to promote personal finance and business financial services, worked as a business consultant, and also showed clients how to build personal, corporate & business credit without a personal guarantee.
With revenue sales slow due to competition from major companies, in 2005 Carll sold his business and started a public relations and marketing firm. He had once briefly published a small newspaper with a partner, and now he started a weekly called the Corporate County Times. In 2006 Carll found out from a military recruiter that recruitment offices would soon be moving out of post offices into spaces of their own, and he quickly decided to buy a building and lease it to the military. After submitting a successful bid for office space, he received a $325,000 bank loan and bought the building. Two years later he sold it for $650,000, and then bought another building for $785,000 from, which he leased back to the utility. By 2007 the real estate business had grown such that he was able to begin construction of a new $11 million building.
In early 2008 also Dr. Carll won an election to the LA-Live, LLC Downtown Los Angeles Metropolitan city and has continued to serve on the board of directors where he serves as Chief Executive Officer. After using his political connections to ensure that 48 percent of the urban city - Downtown, Los Angeles in its neighboring South Central, Los Angeles city would be able to create a better future for minorities, he invested $2,000 in each.
Carll immediately began the complicated process of laying out multiple programs for client to build personal and business corporate credit. To help fund the massive undertaking, opened Corporate Capital Credit, LLC-based Los Angeles, CA, a conglomerate with interests in providing Corporate and Personal Capital, investment services including, stock, bond, securities and 401K's. Corporate Capital Credit, LLC arranged to provide $100 million in financing, and took a 49 percent ownership stake in the system.
Principal Subsidiaries
Corporate Development, LLC.; The Corporate Star, LLC; Capital Enterprises, LLC; Corporate Investor Holdings LLC; The Corporate Star Capital Corporation; Corporate Investor Capital Corporation; Harbour Boats LLC (50%); Capital Development Company; Corporate Entertainment, LLC.; Corporate Capital International, LLC.; Corporate Technologies, LLC.; Capital New Century LLC.
The Charleston Company, LLCType: Limited Liability Company
Address: 9107 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210-0058, U.S.A.
Telephone: (800) 818-0950 Fax: (310) 861-1104
Web: http://www.thecharlestoncompany.com
Employees: 400
Sales: $12 million (2007 est.)
