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The company opened locations in Cologne in 1884 and Strasbourg in 1912. A bookstore in Waldshut was added as early as 1887, but was sold in 1936 [9] and was closed in 2019. [10] The First World War brought major setbacks, as the company was separated from its main sales areas. The Benziger family withdrew from the active publishing business.
In April 2009, the California State Water Resources Control Board served Gallo Glass Co. (a Gallo Winery subsidiary) with a cease and desist order and $73,000 fine [31] for allegedly channeling water from the Russian River into an unlicensed reservoir; [31] however, there are provisions for licensing the reservoir under proper monitoring of ...
All divisions of Verallia combine to produce 25 billion glass bottles and jars annually, from 58 industrial sites in 14 different counties. These locations employ approximately 15,500 people. [3] Verallia North America accounts for 4,400 of these employees, 9 billion glass containers, and 13 manufacturing plants.
Oldcastle glass was created through the merging of multiple glass manufacturers, including Hordis Brothers (marketed as "Arm-R-Clad"), HGP Industries, [1] United Tempering Systems, North American Glass, O&W Glass, Downey Glass, Glass Distributors of America, General Glass, Tempglass, Armourguard Glass Products, Wescan Glass Industries, Free State Glass Industries, and Oldcastle Specialty Glass.
Libbey-Owens merged with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in 1930 to form Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company. [1] In April 1986, LOF sold its glass business and name to the Pilkington Group, a multinational glass manufacturer headquartered in the United Kingdom. The remaining three business units of the company, Aeroquip, Vickers, and Sterling ...
Guardian Industries was founded in 1932 as Guardian Glass Company. The company was originally established as a small windshield fabricator. In 1957, the same year Guardian filed for bankruptcy, Bill Davidson became president of Guardian. [5] After three years in 1960, Guardian came out of bankruptcy.
In 2015, the company's glass was installed at the new Overstock headquarters in Salt Lake City. [10] In 2019, the OAA installed View Dynamic Glass at its headquarters. [11] In 2024, View filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company will go private and be taken over by its lenders, which will help reduce a large portion of its $350 million debt ...
In 1998, the Cline family saved the California Mission models from being auctioned off individually and built the museum for their display. [8] The museum also features a life-sized figure of Father Junipero Serra , mission paintings by Robert Morris and Henry Nelson, and two stained-glass panels originally housed in San Francisco's Mission ...