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Bell Atlantic - after merger with NYNEX, headquarters moved from Philadelphia to New York City; a significant workforce remains in the area Breyers - acquired by Kraft Foods and then by Unilever Jones Apparel Group - moved to New York City
WolfBlock LLP (formerly Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen [3]) was a large U.S. law firm and lobbying group based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The National Law Journal ranked WolfBlock the 149th-largest firm in the United States, and the 10th-largest in Philadelphia, by number of attorneys. The firm was known for being one of the oldest law ...
As faculty members of the landscape architecture department of the University of Pennsylvania, Laurie Olin and Robert Hanna founded the partnership Hanna/Olin, Ltd.. Through their collaboration in academia, in 1976 Olin and Hanna took on their first project, the design of the Johnson & Johnson Baby Products Corporate Center in Skillman, New Jersey, executed in collaboration with I. M. Pei ...
Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG) is a privately held, global trading and technology firm.SIG comprises a number of affiliated entities specializing in trading and proprietary investments in equities, fixed income, energy, commodity, index and derivative products, private equity and venture capital, research, customer trading and institutional sales.
CDI Corporation was founded in Philadelphia in 1950 as Comprehensive Designers, Inc. [2] The company provided temporary technical services to manufacturing industries, including servicing the growing automotive and defense industries.
The company was founded by Sylvan M. Cohen (1914-2001) in 1960 following the passage of the Real Estate Investment Trust Act, which allowed real estate trusts to access money from public investment.
The first, The Kling-Lindquist Partnership, Inc., was founded by Vincent Kling (1916–2013) in 1946, and grew to become the largest firm in Philadelphia. One of the most recognizable buildings designed by Kling is the Bell Atlantic Tower , [ 2 ] which was completed in 1991 and remains among the tallest buildings in Philadelphia.
The federal government has several institutions in Philadelphia. The city served as the capital city of the United States, before the construction of Washington, D.C. Today, the East Coast operations of the United States Mint are based near the historic district, and the Federal Reserve Bank's Philadelphia division is based there as well.