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Martini & Rossi is an Italian alcoholic beverage company primarily associated with the Martini brand of vermouth and also with sparkling wine (for example, Asti). It also produces the French vermouth, Noilly Prat. The company, in one form or another, has been producing products since 1863 (with a vermouth bottling plant in Pessione since the …
Dirt Devil is a brand name household vacuum cleaner. It is an icon and one of the best selling in the United States. There are two main units Power for large houses, and RV unit for smaller houses or apartments. In 1955 they built the first household vacuum with a patented Cyclone system. Since then …
Brooks Sports, Inc. was founded in 1914 by Morris Goldenberg and is a privately held company that produces high performance shoes and apparel for runners. Brooks originally produced bathing shoes in 1917 before moving into sports by producing baseball cleats in 1920 and football cleats in the 1930’s. In 1979 the world champion Pittsburgh Pirates …
Western Union was founded in Rochester, New York in 1851 as The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. After a series of acquisitions of competing companies by Hiram Sibley & Don Alonzo Watson the company changed its name to Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 at the insistence of Ezra Cornell, one of …
The acquisition of GTE by Bell Atlantic, on June 30, 2000, which formed Verizon, was among the largest mergers in United States business history. It was the result of a definitive merger agreement, dated July 27, 1998, between Bell Atlantic, based in New York City since the merger with NYNEX in 1996, and GTE, which …
The initial design for what became Sun’s first Unix workstation was conceived by Andy Bechtolsheim when he was a graduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He originally designed this “68000 Unix system” for the communications project Stanford University Network, building it from spare parts resourced from the Department of Computer Science and …