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This is a list of Georgia companies, current and former businesses whose headquarters are, or were, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Companies based in Georgia [ edit ]
He founded Georgia-Pacific, a formerly publicly traded corporation on the New York Stock Exchange from 1949 to 2005, now a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Biography [ edit ]
State National Corporation: NBD Bancorp: $103 million JPMorgan Chase: 1987 U.S. Bancorp: Peoples National Bank of Washington U.S. Bancorp: U.S. Bancorp: 1987 First Union Corp. Atlantic National Bank of Florida First Union Wells Fargo: 1988 Bank of New York: Irving Trust Company: Bank of New York: Bank of New York Mellon: 1988 Shawmut Corp ...
Here's a look back at some of the big names that were founded from ... patented in 1974, on display in the National Museum of American History ... The corporation even took the Foot Locker name in ...
Paulson announced his retirement in January 1992 and his shares in the company were purchased by Forstmann Little. [9] Plaque honoring Paulson at the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame. In 1990, Paulson and a Gulfstream flight crew set 35 international records for around-the-world flight in a Gulfstream IV aircraft.
After taking time off and traveling in Canada, he returned to Georgia-Pacific and served as President of the company from 1957 until his retirement in 1976. [1] Robert B. Pamplin took Georgia-Pacific through a period of tremendous growth. When he started as President in 1957, annual sales were $121 million and profits were $7.4 million.
In 1906, Lane and his associates purchased Southern Bank of Georgia enabling them to merge the two banks as the new C&S Bank. [4] The newly merged banks were officially named the Citizens and Southern Bank of Georgia. In 1922 Citizens and Southern absorbed Central Bank and Trust Corp., the bank founded by Coca-Cola co-founder Asa Griggs Candler ...
In 1932, in what became known as the “Great Gesture,” Col. Woodward transferred all his ownership to and became a co-founder of the non-profit corporation known as Georgia Military Academy. The Academy, now a corporation with a governing board, remained in College Park, Georgia and was founded “not for pecuniary gain to stockholders, but ...