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William Westerfeld, a German-born confectioner, arrived in San Francisco in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he had established a chain of bakeries. He hired local architect Henry Geilfuss [3] [4] to design for his family of six a 28-room mansion with an adjoining rose garden and carriage house. The house was constructed in 1889 at a cost of $9,985 ...
Whitbread is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England.The business was founded as a brewery in 1742 by Samuel Whitbread in partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell, with premises in London at the junction of Old Street and Upper Whitecross Street, along with a brewery in Brick Lane, Spitalfields.
As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been ...
A. Schilling & Company was an American foodstuffs company founded in San Francisco, California, in 1881, by German emigres August Schilling and George F. Volkmann. [1] [2] [3] They engaged in the processing of coffee, tea, baking powder, spices, extracts, and other unrelated products which they supplied to the grocery trade.
Levison Brothers / California Jewelry Co. San Francisco - defunct; Link TV - merged with KCET in 2012; McKesson Corporation - relocated to Irving, Texas in 2019; Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997; Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
The company also invented molded pulp egg cartons and the window envelope, which was first used by the billing unit of San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). In 1928, the Zellerbach Paper Company merged with the Crown Willamette Paper Company to form publicly-traded Crown Zellerbach Corp.
The brands competed locally in the San Francisco Bay Area. [2] As a result of Hostess liquidating the company, Colombo shuttered its operation in November, 2012. [3] [4] The SFFBC, through Colombo's bakery, was the maker of Emperor Norton San Francisco Sourdough Snacks, which ceased production in 2012, prior to the Hostess liquidation. [5]
140 New Montgomery Street is a 26-floor Art Deco mixed-use office tower located in San Francisco's South of Market district, close to the St. Regis Museum Tower and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [2]