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British brands
- BPBP began in May 1908 when British geologists struck oil in southwestern Persia.
- Penguin BooksOne order of 63,000 books from Woolworths paid for all of Penguin Books.
- British AirwaysBritish Airways and Air France launched the first supersonic passenger flights on the same day in 1976.
- Shell plcShell plc once redesigned a three-billion-dollar natural gas platform in the North Sea, raising its height by one to two meters. That was in 1989, and the reason was an expected rise in sea level caused by global warming. Today Shell is a…
- CadburyCadbury began as a tea shop, not a chocolate company. John Cadbury opened his Birmingham stall in 1824.
- AstraZenecaAstraZeneca, the Swedish-British drugmaker, turned down a final offer from Pfizer on the 19th of May 2014. The bid was 55 pounds a share. That valued the company at 69.4 billion pounds, or about 117 billion US dollars. The two companies…
- Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Britannica's last print edition closed in 2012 after 244 years. Future editions would exist only online.
- Virgin MediaVirgin Media began as a cable company that bought a mobile firm. It formed in 2007 after NTL and Telewest merged.
- BBCWhen a general strike halted newspapers in May 1926, the BBC became Britain's main source of news.
- SlazengerSlazenger has supplied Wimbledon's tennis balls since 1902, the longest unbroken sporting sponsorship in history.