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EBAY LOGO
The online auction website was founded as AuctionWeb in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar’s original site was called AuctionWeb. A section of that site was called Echo Bay Technology Group, and when Omidyar went to register that name, echobay.com was taken. Then further he decided [...]
PARAMOUNT LOGO
Adolph Zukor, the founder of Paramount Pictures, spent most of his life establishing and supervising one of the largest and most successful motion-picture companies in the history of the entertainment industry. Zukor was born in Hungary in 1873, but immigrated to the United States at age 15. In 1912 Adolph Zukor releases the first four-reel [...]
BACARDI LOGO
In 1829 Don Facundo Bacardi Masso emigrated from Spain to Santiago, Cuba, bringing with him an inventive mind and a love for drinking. Immediately he discovered that the drinks, namely the rum that was popular on the island, was of a dark, rich, almost overwhelming nature. The development of the new Bacardi rum, in 1862 [...]
AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY LOGO
The company’s history traces to 1926, when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and several other firms founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) to operate a nationwide radio broadcasting network. NBC expanded so rapidly that by 1928 it found itself with an excess of affiliates in the same cities, so it split its programming into [...]
PFIZER LOGO
Pfizer is named after German-American cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhardt who launched their chemicals business Charles Pfizer and Company from a building at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Bartlett Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1849. There, they produced an antiparasitic called santonin.
STARBUCKS COFFEE LOGO
The original Starbucks was opened in Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, in 1971, when three friends with a passion for fresh coffee, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, opened a small shop and began selling fresh-roasted, gourmet coffee beans and brewing and roasting accessories. In 1992 Starbucks Corp. went public on the NYSE [...]
ROLEX LOGO
In 1905 Hans Wilsdorf and his brother-in-Law Alfred Davis founded “Wilsdorf and Davis” in London. Their main business at the time was importing Swiss Movements, Sources dials and manufactures watches and watchcases to England. In 1908 Wilsdorf registered the trademark “Rolex” and opened an office in Switzerland.
PIZZA HUT LOGO
The history of Pizza Hut began in 1958 when Frank and Dan Carney opened the first store in Wichita Kansas. Frank and Dan were brothers and best friends. In 1958, they asked their mother to borrow 600.00 and they successfully started the now world renowned restaurant called Pizza Hut. The brothers decided that they wanted [...]
