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The founder of Taco Bell, Glen Bell, started with a hot dog stand in San Bernardino, California in 1946. After experimenting with alternative food items, he opened three Taco-Tia (named after his daughter) stands between 1954 and 1955, which he later sold to his partners. He then opened the first Taco Bell in Downey, California …
John Boot was born in Radcliffe-On-Trent in 1815 and his early life was spent as an agricultural labourer on local farms. He travelled to attend services at the Wesleyan chapels in the Lace Market area of Nottingham and by the time of the 1851 Census had moved to Woolpack Lane in Hockley. It was a …
The story of Absolut goes back to 1879. That was the year when the swedish “king of Vodka” Lars Olsson Smith started making his “Absolut Rent Brännvin”. The vodka was produced using a revolutionary new destillation method, called “rectification” and that method is still used today. In the beginning, the vodka was produced in LO …
By 1990 both Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Television and the BSB alliance were beginning to struggle with the burden of massive losses. The collapse of BSB in November 1990 led to a merger, which was in effect a takeover by Sky quality programming and superior technical quality had been no match for shrewd, aggressive marketing …
Established in 1986 by Mossimo Gianulli, the company started out as a board shorts brand, as its designer sold his brand to retailers along the South Californian coast. In the late eighties/early nineties, Mossimo’s sales spread into the southeastern states when veteran sales rep Mark Andrews Rose persuaded the young company to give him the …
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball. More specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates North American professional baseball’s two major leagues, the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure which has existed between them since 1903. On an organizational …