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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 film in the United States. And in 1916 Zukor and Lasky buy controlling rights to Paramount Film Company. In 1924 Zukor opens first international Paramount Theater in Paris. And in 1929 Paramount Pictures film Wings wins first Academy Award for Best Picture.
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In 1938, Lee Byung-Chul established Samsung. Samsung headquarter situated in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung was a small trading company, started with 40 employees in Seoul. Lee produced a sugar refinery in 1953; it was first Korean manufacturing facility after the Korean War. In 1969, Samsung Electronics had been started under the Lee’s philosophy, “Making Samsung the leader in industry”. Lee started his business with 40 employees, that number reached 263,000 in 2007.
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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 Bacardi purchased a tin roofed factory building in which he planned to start a distillery. In 1944 Bacardi Imports was opened in New York City, opening the huge U.S. market to the quickly growing Cuban company.
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In 1906, Xerox was launched in Rochester, New York as “The Haloid Company”. Company manufactured photographic paper and equipment. This name has been changed by “Haloid Xerox” in 1958 and then simply “Xerox” in 1961.
Xerox is a global document management company, which manufactures and sells a wide range of color and black & white printers, photo copiers etc. Xerox headquarters situated in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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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 two separate networks called the Red and the Blue networks.
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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.
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Yataro Iwasaki was launched the first Mitsubishi Company in 1870. It was a shipping firm. Mitsubishi is a combination of two words. First one is “Mitsu”, which means ‘three’, and the other one is “hishi” meaning ‘water chestnut’. Mitsubishi Corporation is a member of the Mitsubishi Group. As of 2007, Mitsubishi Corporation is Japan’s largest general trading company.
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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 with 166 stores–ten years later, it had almost 6,000.
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Gerard Philips was established the company named Philips in 1891. Gerard Philips was a maternal cousin of Karl Marx in the Netherlands. Light bulb was his first product. Other products such as vacuum tubes, was started to manufacture by the Philips Company in 1920. Electric Razor was introduced By the Philips Company in 1939.
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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.
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