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Multinational companies headquartered in Germany

  • AdidasAdolf Dassler began making sports shoes in his mother's scullery or laundry room in Herzogenaurach, Germany after returning from World War I.
  • Springer Science+Business MediaJulius Springer opened a small bookshop in Berlin on the 1st of January 1842. The firm began with just four employees working within its first year.
  • BayerFriedrich Bayer and Johann Friedrich Weskott opened a partnership in 1863 within the German town of Barmen. They established a facility to produce dyes for…