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Ford Motor Company
Ford MotorsFord Motor Company started the last century with a single man envisioning products that would meet the needs of people in a world on the verge of high-gear industrialization.Ford Motor Company entered the business world on June 16, 1903, when Henry Ford and 11 business associates signed the company's articles of incorporation. -
The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC)
APOCIn 1911 the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), which was developing oil fields in Iran, requested permission to negotiate a concession from Kuwait. -
Metal Office Furniture Company
Furniture Co.
Peter M. Wege Sr., Walter Idema and 10 other stockholders form the Metal Office Furniture Company on March 14, 1912 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The company has 15 employees and specializes in filing cabinets and safes. First year`s sales are $76,000. -
British airways started operations
British AirwaysBritish Airways can trace its origins back to the birth of civil aviation, the pioneering days following World War I. In the 90 years that have passed since the world's first schedule air service on 25 August 1919, air travel has changed beyond all recognition. -
Swingline Company
Swingline Co.
Founded in 1925, Swingline is the stapling and paper punch division of ACCO Brands, Inc. Swingline earned the prestigious title of “#1 Brand of Staplers” by building quality and durability into every product. -
Aluminum production increases
Aluminum production........along with production of toxic by-product sodium fluoride. -
Businesses were bad as the Great Depression hits hard.
DepressionDimension The winter of 1930 was bitter cold. The January IBEW Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators was filled with members’ reports of accumulations of snow from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Sacramento and Los Angeles, California. For the millions of men and women without work, it was especially harsh. -
A decade of depression.
A decade of depressionThe Depression hit the building trades especially hard. Construction fell by 78%, and the average annual earnings of a full-time construction worker in 1933 were less than half of what they were in 1929. -
McDonald’s restaurant started in 1940
McDonaldsThe business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California. -
American automobile industry
Automobile industryOf the four companion makes introduced by General Motors in the 1920s and 1930s, Pontiac was the only one to survive past 1940. -
Post-depression/World war 2 eras
PostDepression/World War 2The 1940's were dominated by World War II. European artists and intellectuals fled to the United States from Hitler and the Holocaust, bringing new ideas created in disillusionment. War production pulled us out of the Great Depression. Women were needed to replace men who had gone off to war, and so the first great exodus of women from the home to the workplace began. Rationing affected the food we ate, the clothes we wore, the toys with which children played. -
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The first domestic jet-airline passenger service is begun.
Passenger jetWithin the United States, National Airlines became the first to begin jet service, using leased Boeing 707s, on December 10, 1958. -
Motown music business booms in the 60s
MotownThe late 1950s-1960s presented a time in America that may never come again. -
Barnes and Noble booksellers started operation
Barnes and NobleLeonard Riggio, the company's chairman, began his bookselling career while attending New York University in the early 1960s. Working as a clerk in the university bookstore, he became convinced that he could do a better job serving students, and he opened a competing store of his own. With a small investment, Mr. Riggio established the Student Book Exchange (SBX) in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1965. -
The business of sports in this century.
<a href='Big Business dominated the sports world in the Seventies. Professional athletes, previously "owned" by their teams, demanded and received the right to “free agency”, whereby they would be able to market themselves to the highest bidder ' >Sports business</a>Big Business dominated the sports world in the Seventies. Professional athletes, previously "owned" by their teams, demanded and received the right to “free agency”, whereby they would be able to market themselves to the highest bidder -
Cigarette advertisements are banned from U.S. television
Cigarette is bad for your healthThe Senate, Commerce Committee, on December 5, 1970, voted out a bill banning cigarette commercials from the air as of January 1, 1971. -
Bechtel Group, Inc. Surviving a Global Downturn.
[Bechtel Group](. http://www.bechtel.com/BAC-Chapter-6.html )The new decade got off to an auspicious start as Bechtel posted $11.3 billion in new bookings for 1980, more than double the previous year and the highest ever, to that point. -
World’s smallest VCR created
Smallest VCRDeveloped the world's smallest, lightest 4mm video tape recorder in 1986. -
AT&T merges with McCaw Cellular company in 1994
[AT&T](. http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Mccaw-Cellular-Communications-Attmccaw-Merger-Negotiation/139781)Our case study titled, The AT&T and McCaw merger negotiation, provides us with an opportunity to negotiate the terms of the merger between McCaw cellular and AT&T. McCaw was the largest competitor in the rapidly growing cellular telephone communications industry. -
Acid fuel cell
Acid fuel cellAcid fuel cellWorld's first portable phosphoric acid fuel cell developed by Sanyo in 1992. -
IntraLinks corporate development of 2009.
IntraLinksMore than one third of corporate M&A professionals from Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific (APAC) say they are optimistic for the future of deal activity in the next 12 months, according to a recent survey by IntraLinks and mergermarket. -
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