Business

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…

On November 20, 1851, in Verolanuova, Italy, an Italian entrepreneur, inventor, and scientist named Signor Felice Bisleri established the Bisleri company. To begin with, Felice Bi…

Ramesh Chauhan of Parle contacted his friends at Duke's with the idea for a 'veri veri lime & lemoni' drink. He had asked for the recipe for their lemon drink, pledging not to…

Chaleo Yoovidhya, a Thai entrepreneur from humble beginnings (son of poor Chinese immigrants), started TC Pharmaceuticals, which produced antibiotics in the 1960s. In 1970…

John Jacob Bausch, a German immigrant, and Henry Lomb, an American investor, established Bausch & Lomb in New York in 1863. By the time World War One broke out, Bausch & L…