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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	$5.86 billion USD (2005)
Employees	5,581 (2005)
Slogan	America's Luxury Home Builder
Website	www.tollbrothers.com

Contents 1 Company Perspectives 2 Key Dates 3 History 4 Markets 5 Principal Subsidiaries 6 Principal Competitors 7 Sources 8 External links

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.

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.

Toll Brothers operates in the following states:

• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Illinois
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio (Stopped building here around 2004-2005)
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Texas
• Virginia
• West Virginia

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

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.

"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>

• Corporate website
• Ocean's Edge at Singer Island - Florida Condos
• Hampton Hall - A South Carolina Golf Course Community
• Hampton Pointe - A South Carolina Golf Course Community
• Quick Delivery Homes

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
Philadelphia-based and Delaware Valley-based non-public or externally owned corporations (by size): GlaxoSmithKline (US Operations) | Burlington Coat Factory | Forman Mills