Companies Established in 1951 - Valmet, Jack in the Box, Wang Laboratories, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Shoprite, Tetra Pak (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Valmet, Jack in the Box, Wang Laboratories, Tokyo Electric Power Company, ShopRite, Tetra Pak, Iron Mountain Incorporated, Kanesue, Circle K, Pannonia Film Studio, Caldor, U.M.&M. T.V. Corp., AAR Corporation, The Hat, MacMillan Bloedel, TransCanada Corp., URS Corp., Scott Wilson Group, SRT Communications, Island Savings, St-Hubert, Grove Press, Max Mara, Mark VII Limited, Redstone Federal Credit Union, Suspa, Snelling Staffing Services, PAMS, APBA, Scientific Atlanta, Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House, Intra Bank, Chubu Electric Power, Ceriani, Sidel, Nishat Group, Gifford, Globe Life And Accident Insurance Company, Hornbacher's, Hitachi Construction Machinery, Stemcor, Joyces 365, Bosnalijek, Levy-Gardner-Laven, Bick's Pickle, American Benefit Plan Administrators, Hinshaw's, Sanders Associates, Howco, Rigaku, Merryland Studio, Sencore, De Haan's Bus & Coach, Hill and Stewart, Trondheim Bilruter, Ashley-Famous, Kyushu Electric Power, Angle Ring, Egmont Ehapa, Foster Hewitt Broadcasting, National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, DSK Bank, Wonderland Music Company, The Senshu Bank, Kyeongnam Constructions Company, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Nippon Shinpan. Excerpt: Wang Laboratories was a computer company founded in 1951 by Dr. An Wang and Dr. G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge (1954-1963), Tewksbury (1963-1976), and finally in Lowell, Massachusetts (1976-1997). At its peak in the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had annual revenues of $3 billion and employed over 33,000 people. The company was always directed by Dr. Wang, who played a personal role in setting business strategy and product strategy; he also took steps to ensure that the Wang family would retain control of the company even after going public. He created a second class of stock, class B, with higher div...