Curated category
American subsidiaries of foreign companies
- Random HouseRandom House began with a casual remark that became a company name. In 1927, Bennett Cerf told his new partner Donald Klopfer that they were simply going to…
- HarperCollinsHarperCollins traces its name to two companies that never met until one man decided to buy them both. James Harper and his brother John founded J & J Harper…
- Den of GeekDen of Geek launched in 2007 from London, founded by Simon Brew as a pop culture website aimed at readers who took their fandom seriously.
- Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics was founded in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 1986, and it began not with investors or a corporate mandate but with the proceeds from a chain of…
- ChryslerChrysler, the automaker founded in 1925 from the ruins of the Maxwell Motor Company, has survived bankruptcy twice, a wartime conversion to tanks and…
- Sony Music PublishingSony Music Publishing controls more than six million songs as of the end of March 2025, making it the largest music publisher on earth by catalog size.
- U.S. SteelU.S. Steel was created in a single transaction in 1901, when J. P. Morgan merged Carnegie Steel, Federal Steel, and National Steel for $492 million.
- Sony Interactive EntertainmentSony Interactive Entertainment began as a joint venture between Sony and Sony Music Entertainment Japan, founded in Tokyo in 1993 to do something neither…
- Middle-earth EnterprisesMiddle-earth Enterprises holds one of the most commercially contested intellectual properties in modern fiction. Behind every licensed Lord of the Rings…
- GenentechGenentech was founded in 1976 by a venture capitalist and a biochemist who believed they could turn a laboratory technique into a company. Robert A.
- Nestlé Purina PetCareNestlé Purina PetCare traces its origins to 1893, when William H. Danforth first turned his attention to feeding farm animals in St. Louis, Missouri.
- GKIDSGKIDS, Inc. walked into the Academy Awards in 2010 with a French film about two princes on a quest, and the animation world has never quite looked at New…
- Viz MediaViz Media commands nearly a quarter of the graphic novel market in the United States, yet the company traces back to a single man from Tokushima Prefecture…
- Future USFuture US started life not in New York or San Francisco, but in Greensboro, North Carolina, where a struggling video game magazine publisher called GP…
- Tiffany & Co.Tiffany & Co. began its life in 1837 not as a jeweler but as a stationery and fancy goods emporium, funded by just $1,000 borrowed from a cotton mill owner.