Skip to content
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. SteelIn 1901, J. P. Morgan orchestrated a merger that created the United States Steel Corporation with a capitalization of $1.4 billion.
  • 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…
  • 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 PetCareNestlé Purina PetCare traces its origins to 1893, when William H. Danforth first turned his attention to feeding farm animals in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • GKIDSEric Beckman established GKIDS in 2008 within New York City. The company name stands for Guerrilla Kids International Distribution Syndicate, a phrase that…
  • 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.