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The merged company claims legacy Wells Fargo’s history (dating to 1852) as its own, and also adopted legacy Wells Fargo's ticker symbol, WFC. However, it retains Norwest's pre-1998 stock price history and corporate structure, and all pre-1998 SEC filings are under Norwest, not Wells Fargo.
Continuing the Norwest tradition of making numerous smaller acquisitions each year, Wells Fargo acquired 13 companies during 1999 with total assets of $2.4 billion. The largest of these was the February purchase of Brownsville, Texas -based Mercantile Financial Enterprises, Inc., which had $779 million in assets.
Wells Fargo & Company was an American banking company based in San Francisco, California, that was acquired by Norwest Corporation in 1998. During the California Gold Rush in early 1848 at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, California, financiers and entrepreneurs from all over North America and the world flocked to California, drawn by the promise of huge profits.
The following video is from Tuesday's MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill, along with analysts Joe Magyer and Matt Argersinger, discuss the top business and investing stories of the day.
Wells Fargo Corp. Crocker National Bank: Wells Fargo Corp. (combined California bank uses Crocker's charter) Wells Fargo: 1987 Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. Texas Commerce Bank: Chemical Banking Corporation (TX banks continued to operate as Texas Commerce) $1.2 billion JPMorgan Chase: 1987 NBD Bancorp: USAmeribancs: NBD Bancorp: $250 million ...
Norwest would ultimately merge with Wells Fargo in 1998, and the bank has been the firm’s primary LP ever since. Norwest’s story seems to be one of a slow, deliberate expansion—and it could ...
Map of Wells Fargo branches in August 2015 Wells Fargo branch in Berkeley, California A former Wachovia branch converted to Wells Fargo in the fall of 2011 in Durham, North Carolina American Express Co. early receipts (1853, 1869) Stagecoach with Christmas gifts at a Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco Wells Fargo & Co. Express building circa 1860, Stockton, California Mud wagon — Wells Fargo U ...
Wells Fargo, the third-largest bank in the U.S., announced it is closing a division devoted to issuing what they call "non-prime" mortgages, car loans, and credit-card