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Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (28 February 1825 – 8 April 1889) was a cornetist, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini 's virtuosic technique on the violin and successfully proved that the cornet was a true solo instrument by developing ...
The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on the American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average). The index includes about 80 percent of the American market by capitalization.
Justerini & Brooks Ltd. (J&B) is a fine wine and spirits merchant founded in St. James's in 1749, originally to provide wine and spirits to the aristocratic households of London. Is mostly known for their J&B Rare Scotch whisky. The firm has been a supplier to every British monarch since the coronation of King George III in 1761. [1]
On July 12, 2007, JBS purchased Swift & Company in a US$1.5-billion, all-cash deal. The acquisition made the newly consolidated JBS Swift Group the largest beef processor in the world. Prior to the deal, JBS had a market capitalization of US$4.2 billion and sales revenue of $2.1 billion, and operated in 23 plants in Brazil and five in Argentina.
Owned by Germany's Reimann family, [30] 90% of JAB belongs to four of the nine adopted children of the late Albert Reimann Jr. (1898–1984). [31] They trace their wealth to chemist Ludwig Reimann, who, in 1828, joined with Johann Adam Benckiser (founder of the namesake chemical company).
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Berkshire Hathaway was the first company to introduce 517,500 new Class B shares into the market in 1996. [15] The company demonstrated the differences between Class A and B shares clearly—stating that the Class B common stock has the economic interests equivalent to 1/30th of a Class A common stock, [16] but has only 1/200th of the voting rights of a Class A common stock.
JBWere is an Australian Investment Management firm. It was founded in Melbourne in 1840 by Jonathan Binns Were. [1]Staniforth Ricketson, a descendant of Were, was made a partner in J. B. Were & Son Ltd in 1914 and eventually became sole proprietor.