Rolex SA was founded in 1905 by the German Hans Wilsdorf and his brother-in-law, Alfred Davis. Contrary to popular belief, Hans Wilsdorf was neither Swiss, nor a watchmaker. Wilsdorf & Davis was the original name of what later became the Rolex Watch Company. They originally imported Hermann Aegler’s Swiss movements to England and placed them …
BASF AG is a German chemical company and the largest chemical company in the world. [1]BASF originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory). Today, the four letters are a registered trademark and the company is listed on both the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. The BASF Group …
Benetton Group S.p.A. is a global upmarket clothing brand, based in Treviso, Italy. The name comes from four members of the Benetton family who founded the company in 1965. Benetton Group is listed on the Borsa Italiana, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. The success story began in 1955 when Luciano …
In 1921 the Washburn Crosby Company (later named General Mills) invented the character Betty Crocker to personalize letters in response to customers. Betty Crocker’s name and signature soon became a representative for the company’s flour and other “home economics” projects, including a chain of cooking schools throughout the United States that were encouraged to test …
When Intel introduced the first x86 CPU (central processing unit) some 25 years ago, a handheld was a transistor radio, computers were big immobile machines, and the Internet was used by a few of research scientists. How things have changed! Based on combined desktop, laptop and server shipment data from industry analyst firm Mercury Research*, …
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. Considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time, he became the most effectively marketed athlete of his generation and was instrumental in spreading the appeal of the National Basketball Association around the world in the 1980s and …