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Former components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- 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…
- General MotorsWilliam C. Durant stood in Flint, Michigan, on the 16th of September 1908 and signed papers to create a holding company for Buick.
- Bank of AmericaOn the 17th of October 1904, Amadeo Giannini opened a small storefront in San Francisco called Bank of Italy. He targeted Italian immigrants who faced…
- Paramount PicturesOn the 8th of May 1912, a film producer named Adolph Zukor established the Famous Players Film Company in New York. He believed that feature-length films…
- U.S. SteelIn 1901, J. P. Morgan orchestrated a merger that created the United States Steel Corporation with a capitalization of $1.4 billion.
- 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…
- 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.