History of GSK

There are four main companies in the history of GSK: Burroughs Wellcome & Company, Glaxo Laboratories, Beecham, and SmithKline and French. In 1880, Burroughs Wellcome & Company was founded. Wellcome Tropical Researches Laboratories was opened in 1902. McDougall & Robertson Inc. was bought by the Wellcome Company to be more active in animal health. Glaxo …

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History of Hasselblad

Hasselblad is a Swedish manufacturer of high-quality still photography cameras based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company was established in 1841 as a trading company. In the 1890s, Hasselblad began distributing photographic products from Eastman. The photography branch grew, and during the second world war Victor Hasselblad was commissioned to develop an aerial camera for the …

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History of Johnnie Walker

Originally known as Walker’s Kilmarnock Whisky, the brand is a legacy left by John ‘Johnnie’ Walker after he started to sell whisky in his grocer’s shop in Ayrshire, Scotland. The brand became popular, but it was his son Alexander Walker and grandson Alexander Walker II who were largely responsible for establishing the whisky as a …

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History of Melitta

Melitta Coffee company began in 1908 when a young German housewife changed the way in which coffee was made. Melitta Coffee company founder was Melitta Bentz. She had a revolutionary idea. Why not use paper to filter out unwanted coffee residues? So she punctured the bottom of a brass pot and lined it with blotting …

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History of Palm

Pilot was the name of the first generation of personal digital assistants manufactured by Palm Computing in 1996. The first two generations of PDAs from Palm were referred to as . Due to a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the Pilot Pen Corporation, since 1998 handheld devices from Palm have been known as Palm Connected …

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History of Sara Lee

Sara Lee Corporation is an American consumer-goods company based in Illinois. Sara Lee is also the brand name of a number of frozen and packaged foods, often known for the long-running slogan “Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee”. In 2006, Sara Lee announced a new company wide campaign: “the joy of eating.” The campaign is part …

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