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In 1833 Marcus Samuel opened a small shop in London, selling sea shells to Victorian natural history enthusiasts. It soon became a thriving import-export business. On a visit to the Caspian Sea coast, Marcuss son recognised a huge opportunity to export oil for lamps and cooking to the Far East. He commissioned the first special …
The origins of Domino’s Pizza began in 1960 when Tom Monaghan and his brother James bought a local pizzeria in Ypsilanti, Michigan, named Dominick’s Pizza. The deal was secured by a $75 down payment, and the brothers borrowed $500 to pay for the store. Eight months later, James quit the partnership and traded his half …
It all began in 1972 with Atari creator Nolan Bushnell’s dream of creating electronic games which would harness a television set or rastor display as a playing field. With help from friends Ted Dabney and Larry Bryan, Nolan took advantage of his amusement park background and experience with electronics and created what would grow to …
Our company today has an emblem, the red star with the green T which, all over the globe, means superior quality, D.P. Stewart, manager of Texacos Advertising Division, wrote in 1947. He had reason for pride: Since its inception, the Texaco Star has been among the worlds most distinctive logos, evolving over a century of …
Xerox was founded in 1906 as “The Haloid Company”,manufacturing photographic paper and equipment. The company came to prominence in 1959 with the introduction of the first plain paper photocopier using the process of xerography (electrophotography) developed by Chester Carlson, the Xerox 914. The company subsequently changed its name to “Haloid Xerox” in 1958. The 914 …
NIVEA is a large global skin- and body-care brand, owned by German company Beiersdorf. The company began in 1911 when Beiersdorf developed a water-in-oil emulsifier as a skin cream with Eucerit, the first stable emulsion of its kind. The company’s owner, Oskar Troplowitz, named it NIVEA, from the Latin word nivius (meaning snow-white). During the …