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"Starbucks... admits that yes, this is one of the original shields of the house of Lusignan."
"It laid the foundation for a company that would go on to develop some of the most widely viewed computer animated content on television."
"Nokia... was a player in the wood processing business for over 35 years before expanding into electricity in the early 1900s."
"Working for a company known as Blue Umbrella, an organization that was actually started only a few years after the original Umbrella went belly-up."
"The ATI name might no longer be around, but at least the products seem to be still good as always – a survivor."
"These incredible technologies you'll hear about today are built on this 20-year history of making information more accessible and helpful for people."
"We believe in transformation, not destruction."
"The more we look into it the more we can really see that these companies have done this before and maybe these second gen examples are proof that it has been done before."
"The move was completed in 1975. The next year, revenues grew 13% and profit, 97%."
"Procter and Gamble, to this day the largest consumer goods company on earth, was founded in Cleveland."
"From feuding founders to false advertisements, to horrendous work conditions, Kelloggs has definitely had one hell of an interesting history."
"Perhaps nowhere is Nikola's short and turbulent history as a company represented better than in the roller coaster ride its stock price has taken since going public."
"Nokia is one of the most interesting turnaround stories in business history."
"Ultimately, Nickelodeon is 40 years younger than Disney, so they had a lot less time to figure this out."
"One of my favorite stores…actually the largest furniture store in the world, IKEA, started in Sweden."
"General Motors does have a strong legacy of innovation."
"Boeing's surprise win: chosen as the company, not the design."
"The warehouse speaks for itself and still speaks just as loud as it started back in 1999."
"It's crazy how we've stuck in this from 100 to where it is now."
"Nvidia's impact on the wider industry from nearly going bankrupt in 1995 is a remarkable turnaround."
"The story of LEGO is rife with chaos, uncertainty, and legal disputes."
"I personally believe it's gonna be tough to compete with the days for Amazon when COVID was at its peak."
"There's really something special about what Norton is doing after all they've been through."
"By 1996, Philips had already sold its gaming subsidiaries Philips Media."
"In the late '90s, Volkswagen acquired the Bugatti brand name."
"Four kids was so successful that the company itself was even listed on the New York Stock Exchange."
"1991 was going to be a huge year for Sony, and at CES that summer, the company made an announcement that would change history forever."
"Sony wasn't even supposed to be part of this gaming market."
"A part of this deal was Microsoft making a 150 million dollar investment in Apple, which many have claimed single-handedly saved the company from bankruptcy. But this actually isn't the case at all."
"Toy site hit the scene in the late 90s and early 2000s after their parent company BDNA created several successful lines of Nintendo products."
"Sega found massive success and could have continued their growth but it all came crumbling down."
"The Volkswagen story is a wonderful parable, about the renewal of hope."
"AGCO has a great history in Europe, South America, Australia, Africa, China, and many other places around the world."
"IBM, once dubbed 'Big Blue,' dominated the computing landscape."
"The trademark for iPhone and iOS were actually not owned by Apple but instead by a networking company called Cisco."
"Yahoo could have been the most valuable company in the world."
"AMD has this great history of pushing the industry, pushing innovation."
"Nintendo had worked hard to establish itself in the United States after the failure of Atari left many people skeptical of video games."
"That was 70, 80 years ago. I mean, this is the person, the people that own the company now have absolutely nothing to do with that."
"Well, Amazon does have quite a history of controversial products."
"TD has never missed a dividend payment in 162 years."
"But it was around this time that insomniac found themselves in the exact same situation they were in back at the turn of the century."
"What company out there has grown their dividend every year consecutively for longer than any other company?"
"It's incredible to look back on the past two decades and see everything that Stratus has achieved."
"A lot of that is because we have a factory mentality. Our parent company has been manufacturing products for over 51 years."
"I don't believe the reputation excuse at all especially when you look at the history of big banks."
"Tesla's Fremont Factory, one of the best deals in corporate history."
"Company officials look back on Harley Quinn, not as a failure, but as a learning experience."
"Gerber has been making knives since 1939 in Portland, Oregon, a really quality knife company."
"Beyond campaigning, Ford and Firestone also had a long, weird history of camping together."
"There's something beautiful maybe even poetic about 30 years of history behind a big name all the ups and downs..."
"The explosion of the steel industry directly led to the world's first corporation valued at over 1 billion dollars."
"Amazon workers voting to form the first union in the company's history."
"Mazda has been around since 1929, but they weren't making cars right away—they actually were a producer of all things cork, believe it or not."
"Disney's illustrious history on full display."
"Infinity doing the business since 1989, that premium brand of Nissan."
"Hopefully you now know a bit more about how it got to where it is today."
"It's arguably one of the best eras in Electronic Arts history."
"Phase one through three, that was put in place back during the Paramount era before it got sold to Disney and they don't know what they're doing."
"We gave people one of those moments and in 2024 we get back to giving him moments like that."
"Rolls-Royce makes some of the most expensive cars in the world and yet this seven billion dollar company was founded by a boy who grew up in poverty with almost no education."
"Steve Jobs suggested the name 'Apple' because he thought it was simple and friendly."
"Through Rapid expansion countless lawsuits and internal uprisings Walmart has fought its way to the top of the world."
"The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major turning point for the company, which was forced to confront the significant environmental risks of its operations."
"In 1999, Exxon and another oil giant, Mobil, merged to form ExxonMobil Corporation."
"Things started changing when Michael Eisner, formerly the president and CEO of Paramount Pictures, was given the position of CEO of the Walt Disney Company."
"Taco Bell claims it was the first restaurant chain to hire women as managers."
"Ricoh, an older Japanese company that shared much of its history with the Asahi Pentax brand, purchased the Pentax company with the intent to build cameras to honor the Pentax name, history, and legacy."
"Without Bank of America, we may not have the Golden Gate Bridge, Disney, or even credit cards in the way that we have them today."
"We've been the innovator of international freight services for more than 20 years."
"Eddie Stobart is one of the most famous huge companies in Britain; for almost half a century, they've been delivering the goods that keep the UK running."
"The company has been in business over 100 years."
"Chrysler's been doing this since the 1980s and now for model year 2024, it's crazy to think that this is the only vehicle that Chrysler is selling brand new here in the United States."
"Nabisco, it's short for the National Biscuit Company."
"The name Nike was adopted in 1971 after the company severed ties with Onitsuka."
"The story of how NSO came to be a Cisco product is a good one."
"The structure that stands at 200 Park Avenue in New York City has a different corporate name on it today, but to all former employees and especially those who work there, it will ever be remembered and referred to in our hearts as the Pan Am building."
"It's been one of the best growth decades for Home Depot."
"Some of the most innovative companies throughout history have been pretty impressive."
"For over half a century, HP was an electronics juggernaut and virtually everyone knew the iconic logo."
"The rise and fall of DuMont is a story full of triumph and bitter, bitter defeat."
"The Rogers company has its roots in places like New York State, Farmingdale, New Jersey."
"What if I told you Starbucks is closely related to Moby Dick, and that Italy played a part in creating one of the most successful corporations in the world?"
"It's also the 100th anniversary of the Disney Corporation."
"The actual official 100 of the company is October 16th, 1923. That's 100 years."
"Millions of lives have been touched during the company's 50-year history."
"Listen carefully, Playtime Co is the product of a great man by the name of Elliot Ludwig."
"Revlon got huge, way bigger than I think those two brothers ever could have imagined."
"The story of Piedmont Airlines' growth since its beginning in 1948 is quite remarkable."
"Good companies tend to recover, especially those with long histories."