Business

On January 10, 1801, in a little German village, Thierry Hermès entered the world. Thierry was the youngest of many brothers.  Tragically, Thierry would lose most of his rela…

Bill Shufelt earned his bachelor's degree in economics in 2005 and was a healthcare stock trader with Knight Capital in Jersey City. The billionaire Steve Cohen of Point72, a hedg…

A graphic designer and former Netflix creative director, Mike Cessario of Delaware, saw the Vans Warped Tour in 2009, and that experience sparked the idea for Liquid Death. He spo…

Although the likes of Chanel, Hermès, and Loewe have flourished in Europe, the United States is home to just one luxury label: Tiffany & Co., established by jeweller Charles L…

In 2002, three entrepreneurs—Scott Seamans, Lyndon Hanson, and George Boedbecker Jr.—conceived of Crocs. Boedbecker and Hanson had a connection from their time as undergraduates a…

Henry O. Wills moved to Bristol from Salisbury in 1786 and, with the help of his business partner, Samuel Watkins, built a tobacco store on Castle Street. Wills, Watkins & Co.…

Back in the 1960s, doctors discovered that safflower oil was good for the heart because it contained a high concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acid. However, at the time, the …

In the 1920s, Phirojshaw Khambatta established a business-to-business operation centred on the production of carbonated drinks. In the 1950s, it began selling flavour concentrates…

In 1920, Maiya brothers from Kota, a small village near Udupi in South Canara, moved to Bengaluru to find work. They had been cooking in the homes of the well-to-do before being p…

Jagdish Chandra Mahindra anticipated opportunities for Indian businesspeople as India prepared to gain its freedom. With his brother Kailash Chandra Mahindra and Ghulam Mohammed, …

A.M. Murugappa Chettiar, at 14 years old, became an apprentice at his uncle's moneylending company in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1900, He belonged to the Tamil Chettiars, who had long…

George Townsend established a sewing needle manufacturing company in the English town of Redditch in 1851. After this, in 1882, his son started making bicycle components, includin…

When Satpal Malhotra was a boy living in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, he lost his father and mother within a few years of each other, at the ages of 15 and 19, respectively. He was left …

Customers may credit Ujala's inventor, Moothedath Panjan Ramachandran, whose insistence on wearing spotless white garments every day is reported to have inspired the product's cre…