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American subsidiaries of foreign companies
- Random HouseIn 1927, two businessmen named Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer established Random House as an imprint of Modern Library.
- HarperCollinsJames Harper and his brother John opened a small printing shop in New York City on the 1st of January 1817. They operated under the name J & J Harper before…
- Den of GeekLondon, 2007. Simon Brew opened the doors to a new website called Den of Geek. The project began as a digital hub for pop culture news and reviews in the…
- Dark Horse ComicsMike Richardson opened Dark Horse Comics in Milwaukie, Oregon, during 1986. He used money from his chain of comic book shops called Pegasus Books to start…
- ChryslerWalter Chrysler arrived at the ailing Maxwell-Chalmers company in the early 1920s. He had been hired to overhaul the troubled operations after a similar…
- Sony Music PublishingIn 1958, Associated Television acquired a fifty percent stake in Pye Records. Lew Grade founded the British television broadcasting company that year.
- U.S. SteelIn 1901, J. P. Morgan orchestrated a merger that created the United States Steel Corporation with a capitalization of $1.4 billion.
- Sony Interactive EntertainmentIn 1993, Sony and Sony Music Entertainment Japan jointly established Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in Tokyo to handle the company's ventures into the…
- Middle-earth EnterprisesIn 1976, The Saul Zaentz Company acquired the film and merchandising rights to J. R. R. Tolkien's works from United Artists.
- GenentechIn January 1976, a twenty-eight-year-old venture capitalist named Robert Swanson walked into the laboratory of biochemist Herbert Boyer at the University of…
- Nestlé Purina PetCareWilliam H. Danforth established a small feed business in St. Louis, Missouri, during 1893. The enterprise began by supplying grain to local farmers and their…
- GKIDSEric Beckman established GKIDS in 2008 within New York City. The company name stands for Guerrilla Kids International Distribution Syndicate, a phrase that…
- Viz MediaSeiji Horibuchi arrived in California from Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, in 1975. He spent two years living in the suburbs before moving to San Francisco to…
- Future USFuture US began its life in 1994 when Future plc purchased GP Publications, a struggling publisher based in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- Tiffany & Co.In 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young opened a stationery store at 259 Broadway in Lower Manhattan with just $1,000 from Charles's father.