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global.brother. Brother Industries, Ltd. (stylized in lowercase) (Japanese: ブラザー工業株式会社, Hepburn: Burazā Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Its products include printers, multifunction printers, desktop computers, consumer and ...
Robert Louis Johnson (born April 8, 1946) is an American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor. [1][2][3][4][5][6] He is the co-founder of BET, which was acquired by Viacom in 2001. [2][3] He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in various business sectors. [3][7] Johnson is the former ...
1910 – "The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company" was founded by S. Duncan Black (1883–1951) and Alonzo G. Decker (1884–1956) as a small machine shop in Baltimore in September. Decker, who had only a seventh grade education, had met Black in 1906, when they were both 23-year-old workers at the Rowland Telegraph Company.
Unit. United States Navy SEALs. Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman, investor, and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater. He served as Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and as its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010.
BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company. Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with US$10 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. [ 1 ]
Hewitt Associates – Ted Hewitt. Hewlett-Packard – William Hewlett and David Packard. Hillman – William Hillman. Hilton Hotels – Conrad Hilton. HKS – Hiroyuki Hasegawa and Goichi Kitagawa (plus Sigma Automotive) Hodder & Stoughton – Matthew Hodder and Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton. Hohner – Matthias Hohner.
Brodie Duke (half-brother) James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing, [1] and his involvement with Duke University. He was the founder of the American Tobacco Company in 1890.
Fred Chase Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which – under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David – would be listed by Forbes as the second-largest privately held company in the ...