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The L.H. Hamel Leather Company Historic District encompasses the largest tract of intact historical industrial buildings in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts.The monumental factory complex of the L.H. Hamel Leather Company is located just west of Haverhill's central business district, and is roughly bordered on the west by the right-of-way for the former Boston & Maine Railroad, Essex Street ...
SRC was established in 1983 when 13 employees of International Harvester purchased a part of that company that rebuilt truck engines, [3] with $100,000 of their own money and $8.9 million in loans, with the goal of saving 119 jobs. [4] By 1988, SRC's debt to equity ratio was down to 1.8 to 1, and the business had a value of $43 million.
The Illinois Watch Company was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois, by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bunn (1831–1920), and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob Bunn Jr., (1864–1926) took over and ran the company until his death in 1926. The Bunn family surname was used in their most famous railroad ...
The Abington Shoe Company was renamed The Timberland Company and incorporated in 1978. [3] [9] Jeffrey Swartz, grandson of founder Nathan Swartz, joined the company in 1986. [10] The following year the family took the company public. [11] [12] Herman Swartz led the company until he retired in 1986. He was succeeded as CEO by his brother Sidney ...
United States Leather Company. The United States Leather Company (1893 [1] -1952), was one of the largest corporations in the United States circa 1900, and one of the original companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It was often referred to by contemporary sources as the "Leather combine" [2] or "Leather trust". [1]
Milton-Bradley Company (building) / 42.10028°N 72.58361°W / 42.10028; -72.58361. The Milton-Bradley Company is a historic former factory complex at Park, Cross, and Willow Streets in Springfield, Massachusetts. The factory was built beginning in about 1880, and expanded over the next decades to include a variety of brick multi-story ...
Johnston & Murphy is an American footwear and clothing company based in Nashville, Tennessee. Johnston & Murphy designs, sources, markets and distributes footwear, apparel, leather goods and luggage. A subsidiary of Genesco Inc., the Johnston & Murphy Group operates retail and wholesale businesses.
spalding.com. Spalding is an American sports equipment manufacturing company. It was founded by Albert Spalding in Chicago in 1876 as a baseball manufacturer, and is today headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It sells softballs through its subsidiary Dudley Sports. In the past, Spalding has manufactured balls for other sports, including ...