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Companies in the Dow Jones Global Titans 50

  • MicrosoftOn the 4th of April 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen established Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their first product was a BASIC interpreter for the…
  • BPIn May 1908, a group of British geologists discovered a large amount of oil at Masjed Soleyman located in the Khuzestan Province in the southwest of Persia.
  • JPMorgan ChaseAaron Burr opened the Bank of the Manhattan Company on the 1st of September 1799. The bank began as a water carrier before transforming into a financial…
  • WalmartOn the 2nd of July 1962, Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City store at 719 W. Walnut Street in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • AB InBevIn 1987, two historic Belgian breweries merged to form Interbrew. The Artois brewery had been established by 1366 under the name Den Hoorn.
  • Alphabet Inc.On the 10th of August 2015, Google announced plans to create a new public holding company called Alphabet Inc. Larry Page made this announcement in a blog…
  • Meta PlatformsThe Facebook logo appeared on a billboard welcoming the company to Nasdaq in 2012. This moment marked the end of a four-year journey that began when Mark…
  • Apple Inc.On the 1st of April 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak established Apple Computer Company in the garage of Jobs's parents' home on Crist Drive in Los Altos…
  • Amazon (company)Jeff Bezos stood in the converted garage of his home in Bellevue, Washington, on the 5th of July 1994. He had just relocated from New York City to start an…
  • MastercardIn 1966, Karl H. Hinke, an executive vice president at Marine Midland Bank, asked representatives of several other banks to meet him in Buffalo, New York.
  • General ElectricOn the 24th of April 1892, two rival electrical companies merged to form General Electric. The Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston…
  • AmgenIn April 1980, a small group of venture capitalists gathered in Thousand Oaks to establish Applied Molecular Genetics. This entity would soon change its name…
  • IBMOn the 16th of June 1911, four separate companies merged in New York State to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
  • NvidiaOn the 5th of April 1993, three engineers named Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem established Nvidia in Santa Clara, California.
  • IntelOn the 18th of July 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce stood in a small office in Mountain View, California, to incorporate a new company.
  • The Coca-Cola CompanyIn July 1886, pharmacist John Stith Pemberton from Columbus, Georgia, invented the original Coca-Cola drink. The product was advertised as helpful in the…
  • Visa Inc.On the 18th of September 1958, Bank of America officially launched its BankAmericard credit card program in Fresno, California.