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Major U.S. Companies, A to Z
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Amazon, Inc. [est. 1994]    •    Apple, Inc. [est. 1975]    •    Ben & Jerry's [est. 1978]    •    Enron [1985-2006]    • Google, Inc. [est. 1998]    •    IKEA [est. 1943]    •    McDonald's [est. 1948]    •    Microsoft [est. 1975]   • Monsanto [est. 1901]    •    The New York Times    •    American Railroads    •    Sizzler Restaurants [est. 1958]   • Starbucks Coffee [est. 1971]    •    Tupperware [est. 1946]    •    TimeWarner [est. 1990]    •    Verizon [est. 1994]    • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. [est. 1962]    •    Wikipedia [est. 2001]    •    Yahoo! [est. 1995]    •    and many more ...

The Forbes Magazine Top Ten Private U.S. Companies List  [November 2010]
#1 Cargill, Inc. [est. 1865]  •  #2 Koch Industries, Inc. [est. 1940]  •  #3 Bechtel Corp. [est. 1898]  •
#4 H.C.A. {Hospital Corporation of America} [est. 1968]  •  #5 Mars Candy Corp. [est. 1911]  •
#6 Chrysler Motors [est. 1925]  •  #7 Pricewaterhouse Coopers [est. 1849]  •
#8 Publix Super Markets, Inc. [est. 1930]  •  #9 Ernst & Young [merger 1989]  •
#10 C&S Wholesale Grocers [est. 1918]

The Forbes Magazine Top Ten Private U.S. Companies List  [November 2020]
#1 {up from #2} #2 Koch Industries, Inc. [est. 1940] of Kansas   •   #2 {down from #1} Cargill, Inc. [est. 1865] of Minnesota   •
#3 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ltd. [U.K. est. 1845]   •   #4 {up from #7} Pricewaterhouse Coopers [est. 1849]   •
#5 {up from #8} Publix Super Markets [est. 1930] of Florida   •   #6 {up from #9} Ernst & Young [U.K. merger 1989]   •
#7 {down from #5} Mars Candy Corp. [est. 1911] of Virginia   •   #8 Reyes Holdings [est. 1976] of Illinois   •
#9 H-E-B Grocery [est. 1905] of Texas   •   #10 Pilot Flying J convenience stores [est. 1981] of Tennessee

latest annual Forbes Magazine list

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Top Ten Companies of The 147 Corporations That Control 40% of The World Economy [October 2011]
#1 Barclays PLC [London, U.K. est. 1690]   •   #2 Capital Group Companies, Inc. [Los Angeles, USA est. 1931]
#3 F.M.R. LLC / Fidelity Investments [Boston, USA est. 1946]   •   #4 A.X.A., SA [Paris, France est. 1816]
#5 State Street Corp. [Boston, USA est. 1792]   •   #6 JPMorgan Chase & Co. [New York City est. 1799]
#7 Legal & General Group PLC [London, U.K. est. 1836]   •   #8 Vanguard Group, Inc. [U.S.A. est. 1975]
#9 U.B.S. AG {United Bank of Switzerland} [est. 1854]   •   #10 Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. [New York City est. 1914]
the top 25 also includes:
#15 Walton Enterprises, LLC [Arkansas, USA est. 1962]   •   #18 Goldman Sachs [New York City est. 1869]
#21 Morgan Stanley [New York City est. 1935]   •   #25 Bank of America Corp. [est. 1904]

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allBusiness [est. 1999] world's largest online resource for small businesses

back on Page One:   U.S. Business Leaders & Crooks, A to Z
top of page   •   links
John Deere [1804-86]    •    Henry Ford [1863-1947]    •    E. Haldeman-Julius [1889-1951]    •    Hugh Hefner [1926-2017]    •    Kirk Kerkorian [1917-2015]   •
Henry Luce [1898-1967]    •    'Bernie' Madoff [1938-2021]    •    Elon Musk [b. 1971]    •    J.C. Penney [1895-1971]    •    T. Boone Pickens [1928-2019]   •
John D. Rockefeller [1839-1937]    •    Martha Stewart [b. 1941]    •    Cornelius Vanderbilt [1794-1877]    •    The Wright Brothers   •
Mark Zuckerberg [b. 1984]    •    and many others ...

as well as individuals with their own page
P.T. Barnum [1810-91]    •    Warren Buffett    •    'Buffalo Bill' Cody [1846-1917]    •    Walt Disney [1901-66]    •    Thomas Edison [1847-1931]   •
Fred Harvey [1836-1901]    •    William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951]    •    Howard Hughes [1905-76]    •    Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924]   •
The Koch Brothers    •    The Studebaker Brothers    •    Preston Tucker [1903-56]    •    Ted Turner [b. 1938]    •    George Westinghouse, Jr. [1846-1914]

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Major U.S. Companies, A to Z

“Capitalism is the creation of jobs and products and services.”
— G.E. Nordell

BAD GUYS: U.S. Chamber of Commerce [est. 1912]
BAD GUYS: Business Roundtable [est. 1972]

more bad guys on the
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Corporate Accountability International [est. 1977] based in Boston, MA

Albertsons Grocery [est. 1939; based in Boise, Idaho]
The Albertson's chain went public in 1959, and opened its 100th store in Seattle in 1964. Albertsons expanded to Southern California in 1966 by acquiring Greater All American Markets, a small chain in Orange County. Albertson's operated many stores as a joint venture with Skaggs Drugstores from 1969 to 1977. Albertson's acquired six Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy stores in early 1989 (the Tom Thumb company was purchased by Randall's in 1992, Randall's was purchased by Safeway in 1999, Safeway was purchased by SuperValu/Albertsons in 2006). Albertson's acquired seventy-four of the remaining Skaggs stores (OK, FL, AR, TX) in 1992, including all 53 Jewel-Osco stores in Texas. In a series of acquisitions in the late 1990s, Albertsons acquired several local chains in TN, IA, MO, MT, WY, ND and rebranded them as Alberton's; but integration did not go well, amd many of those stores were resold or closed. Albertsons purchased American Stores Co. in 1999, which included the chains ACME (PA, NJ, MD, DE), Lucky (CA & NV), Jewel/Jewel-Osco (IL, IN, IA, MI), and pharmacy chains Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs; the Lucky brand was retired. Facing losses from American Stores in 2002, Albertsons announced that it would close or sell 165 underperforming stores. The apostrophe was removed in 2002. In 2004, Albertsons acquired Shaw's Supermarkets and Star Market for $2.5B and purchased Bristol Farms for $135M, while also closing stores in Nebraska and Louisiana. The Albertsons company was purchased by Cerberus and CVS Pharmacy and SuperValu in June 2006 and then split up among them. Save Mart Supermarkets acquired Albertsons' Northern California and Northern Nevada locations and began operating the stores in February 2007, rebranding them as Save Mart and Lucky stores. In June 2008, Albertson's sold 49 Florida Albertsons locations to Publix Stores. Albertson's sold all 72 of the Albertsons Express fuel centers in August 2008 to San Antonio, Texas-based Valero Energy Corporation. In July 2009, SuperValu sold 36 of its 43 Utah Albertsons locations to Associated Food Stores, which rebranded them as Fresh Market. SuperValu/Albertsons divested Bristol Farms to its senior management in October 2010. Albertsons purchased failing SuperValu in March 2013 by assuming $3.2B in debt and adding $100M in cash. Albertsons acquired Lubbock-based United Supermarkets in September 2013 for $385 million; brands included Market Street, Amigos, and United Express. Albertsons purchased Safeway in January 2015 for $9.2B, becoming the #2 grocery chain in America, after Kroger's; the deal required selling off 146 stores; the Safeway brands included Carrs Safeway, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, and Vons, plus a 49% share of the Casa Ley grocery chain of Mexico.

The Albertsons brands today include: Acme, Albertsons & Albertsons Market, Amigos grocery, Carrs-Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Lucky Supermarkets, Market Street, Osco Drug, Pavilions
Supermarket, Randall's, Safeway grocery, Sav-on Pharmacy, Shaw's, Star Market, Super Saver Foods, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets & United Express, and Vons grocery.

Albertsons announced in February 2018 that it is purchasing the Rite Aid pharmacy chain, which has 2,500 stores.

Alibaba Group [est. 1999] of China
What is Chinese retail and business-to-business giant Alibaba Group doing on this American business page? The company was started by Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma in 1999, and has grown to a behemoth worth $280B; the American I.P.O. of September 2014 was wildly successful, producing $25B in capital. The gimmick is that that cash equity will be loaned to the Chinese parent and the interest and principal of that loan will be distributed to U.S. shareholders as it is paid back.
official international website • Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd. entry at Wikipedia

AliExpress [est. 2010] of China
AliExpress is an online retail service based in China, owned by the Alibaba Group and launched in 2010; it is made up of small businesses in China and other locations, such as Singapore, that offer products to international online buyers; AliExpress is the most visited e-commerce website in Russia and the 10th most popular website in Brazil. AliExpress differs from fellow Alibaba-subsidiary Taobao in that AliExpress is primarily aimed at international buyers.
official website • AliExpress entry at Wikipedia

Taobao Marketplace [est. 2003] of China
Taobao Marketplace is a Chinese-language online shopping platform that is a subsidiary of Alibaba, headquartered in Hangzhou;
Taobao is ranked as the eighth most-visited website in the world in 2021.
official website • Taobao entry at Wikipedia

       
Alpha Natural Resources [est. 2002]
official website • A.N.R. entry at Wikipedia

which now owns Massey Energy [1920-2011]
Massey entry at Wikipedia
Martin County, Kentucky toxic sludge spill [Oct 2000]
Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in Raleigh County, West Virginia [29 dead, April 2010]
'Prosecute Massey for Manslaughter' website [est. 4/2010]

                          
Amazon, Inc. [est. 1994] "The World's Largest Bookseller"
Founded in July 1994 by Jeff Bezos and launched July 1995; went public in May 1997.
Amazon.com site directory • company entry at Wikipedia

Spirit of America Bookstore's Amazon, Inc. Page
Nordell Bookstores Group's Main Index Page / Amazon Departments Section
Nordell Bookstores Group's Kindle Hardware & Content Page

America Online / AOL, Inc. [est. 1983]
company official website
AOL entry at Wikipedia

A.O.L. paid $850 million for UK-based social networking site Bebo [est. 2005] in 2008 before dumping it
for less than $10 million to a venture capital firm two years later.

Announced 2/2011: A.O.L. bought news hub Huffington Post in a $315 million deal; Arianna Huffington will become an
executive at AOL, overseeing her blog site as well as local news sites Patch.com and online mapping service Mapquest.

The Andersons, Inc. [est. 1947] of Ohio
company website • company entry at Wikipedia
The Andersons is an agribusiness conglomerate founded in 1947 and is based in Maumee, Ohio; operating revenue for fiscal 2012 was $5.27B.
The six divisions are: grain handling & marketing; five retail grocery stores; ethanol; rail freight car fabrication, repair, services & leasing;
specialty products; and plant nutrients.

Anheuser-Busch [est. 1852]
official website {must be 21} • company entry at Wikipedia
Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Monopolies / Beer

"Dethroning The King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, An American Icon" [2010] by Julie MacIntosh Wiley & Sons 9x6 pb [11/2011] for $14.21 Wiley & Sons 9x6½ hardcover [10/2010] for $16.59

        
Apple, Inc. [est. 1975] producer of personal computers
Founded in April 1975 in Cupertino, California by Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs [1955-2011]
iMac PC launched 1998, iPod launched 2001, iPhone launched 2007
Apple Computer Inc.: official website • company entry at Wikipedia

Spirit of America Bookstore's Apple, Inc. Page

Steve Jobs [1955-2011]
listed on Time Magazine 100 for 2010
listed #5 on Atlantic Monthly's "Top 30 Influential Living Americans" (12/2006)
80-minute tribute video on Apple's website [11/2011]

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Steve Jobs [1955-2011] Page

Arbuckle's Coffee [est. 1865]
Arbuckle's Coffee [est. 1865] official website

"Arbuckle's: The Coffee That Won The West" [1994] by Francis L. Fugate Texas Western Press 12½x9¾ hardcover [11/94] out of print/used

Atlantic & Pacific Grocery [est. 1859]

"The Great A&P and The Struggle For Small Business In America" [2011] by Marc Levinson Hill & Wang 9x6 hardcover [8/2011] for $15.98

"A & P: The Story of the Great Atlantic... by Avis H. Anderson
http://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Pacific-Company-Images-America/dp/0738510386/

"The Rise and Decline of the Great Atlantic &... by William I. Walsh
http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Great-Atlantic-Pacific-Company/dp/0818403829/

        
Barnes & Noble Booksellers [est. 1886]

Began in 1886 as the Arthur Hinds & Company bookstore at Cooper Union in New York City; name changed to Barnes & Noble in 1917; moved to flagship store at 105 Fifth Avenue in New York City in 1932. Sold to conglomerate Amtel in 1969; near-defunct company purchased in 1971 by Leonard Riggio for $1.2M, and greatly expanded. B&N purchased B. Dalton bookstores chain [est. 1966] in 1987, for an estimated $250M; the last of the B. Dalton & Pickwick stores closed in February 2013. The official website launched in May 1997. The company went public in 1999; in March 2013, chairman Riggio offered to buy back the public shares, intending to strengthen the website and close twenty stores (of 689) per year; by August 2013, those plans were cancelled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble_Nook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Dalton_Booksellers

ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's [est. 1978] of Vermont
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry%27s

"Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop - How Two Real Guys Built A Business With
A Social Conscience & A Sense of Humor" [1995] by Fred Lager /0517883708/

clothier Brooks Brothers [est. 1818]

"Brooks Brothers, Centenary 1818-1918: Being A Short History of The Founding of
Their Business, Together With An Account of Its Different Locations In The City
of New York During This Period" [2005] by Michigan Historical Reprint Series /1425500048/

Castle & Cooke [est. 1851]

        
Caterpillar, Inc. [est. 1925]
Aside from Caterpillar management's giving themselves raises and cutting union members' wages and outsourcing jobs overseas and to
'right-to-low-wages' states, the latest anti-American behaviour is Caterpillar's stashing overseas profits in a paper subsidiary in Switzerland
to avoid paying $2.4 billion in U.S. taxes between 2000 & 2012. In early March 2017, federal agents served search warrants at Caterpillar
offices in Peoria, East Peoria, and Morton, Illinois specifically looking for documents on their dealings in Switzerland.
Caterpillar, Inc. official website • Cat Products North America official website • entry at Wikipedia

Chiquita Brands International [est. 1871]
Founded as United Fruit Company in 1871; 1970 merger & name change to United Brands; Carl Lindner, Jr.'s
American Financial Group took over in August 1984 and moved headquarters to Cincinnati, Ohio; filed Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection {when?}; exited bankruptcy March 2002 and changed name to Chiquita Brands.

United Fruit entry at Wikipedia • United Fruit Historical Society [est. 2001]
United Fruit entry at Guatamalan Info website
Chiquita Brands official website • entry at Wikipedia

	"Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company In Colombia, 1899-2000" [2005] by Marcelo Bucheli New York Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [2/2005] for $55.00
	"Banana: The Fate of The Fruit That Changed The World" [2007] by Dan Koeppel Plume 8x5¼ pb [12/2008] for $10.88 Hudson Street Press 8¾x6½ hardcover [12/2007] for $16.29
	"Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped The World" [2008] by Peter Chapman Canongate Books, Ltd. 7¾x5 pb [7/2009] for $10.97 Canongate Books, Ltd. 8x5 hardcover [1/2008] out of print/used

"Bananas: An American History" [] by Virginia Scott Jenkins
http://www.amazon.com/Bananas-American-Virginia-Scott-Jenkins/dp/1560989661/

"Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in..." [] by Steve Striffler
http://www.amazon.com/Banana-Wars-Production-Encounters-Interactions/dp/0822331969/

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Clear Channel Communications radio network [est. 1972]
renamed itself I Heart Media in 2014 (see below)

ConAgra Foods® [est. 1919, renamed 1971]

Founded as Nebraska Consolidated Mills in 1919 in Grand Island, moved to Omaha, Nebraska in 1922; established the Duncan Hines cake mixes brand in 1951 as a way to sell more flour. The company changed its name to ConAgra in 1971, and lost money trying to expand into fertilizer & pet food & fish farms; Mike Harper took charge of the business in 1974 and saved it from bankruptcy. ConAgra bought consumer brands over the next twenty years, starting with Banquet and followed by hundreds of brands purchased from R.J.R. Nabisco, Beatrice Foods, and others. The recent purchase of Ralcorp (an off-shoot of Ralston Purina) for $4.95B makes ConAgra the largest private-label packaged food business in the United States, followed by Kraft, General Mills, and Hormel Foods. (See also Business & Economic Monopolies Page at Working Minds / Things To Worry About) Some of ConAgra's major brands include Banquet frozen foods, Bertolli ready meals, Blue Bonnet spreads, Chef Boyardee, Chun King Chinese-style foods, Dennison's Chili, Egg Beaters, Fleischmann's spreads, Gulden's Mustard, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, Hunt's Snack Pack Pudding, Jiffy Pop popcorn, La Choy Chinese-style foods, Manwich, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher popcorn, PAM cooking spray, Parkay spreads, P.F. Chang's, Ranch Style Beans, Reddi-wip, Ro-Tel tomato sauces, Rosarita Mexican-style foods, Slim Jim snacks, Swiss Miss cocoa & pudding, Van Camp's beans, Wesson cooking oils, and Wolf Brand Chili (See also the list of ConAgra brands at Wikipedia)

        
Condι Nast Publishing [est. 1909] division of Advance Publications [est. 1922]
company official website • company entry at Wikipedia

Magazines published by Condι Nast include: Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appιtit, Brides, House & Garden (U.K. only), Conde Nast Traveler, Details,
Easy Living Magazine, Glamour, Golf Digest, Golf World, GQ Magazine, Lucky Magazine, The New Yorker, Self, Tatler in U.K. [est. 1901], Teen Vogue,
Vanity Fair, Vogue, W Magazine, Wired Magazine, and The World of Interiors. The Fairchild Fashion Media subdivision publishes Beauty Inc.,
Footwear News, M Magazine, NowManifest, Style.com Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily. Condι Nast Digital [est. 1995] operates the Gourmet Live,
Ars Technica, and Epicurious websites, plus apps for the magazines.

Diners & Fast Food
Spirit of America Bookstore's American Roadside Diners Page

A & W Restaurants chain [est. 1919] - famous for their draft root beer
Big Boy Restaurants chain [est. 1934] in California, Illinois, Michigan, North Dakota & Ohio
Tommy's Original World Famous Hamburgers® [est. 1946; 33 locations]
In-N-Out Burger chain [est. 1948]
Norm's Restaurants chain [est. 1949]
Waffle House® Restaurants chain [est. 1955]
Huddle House chain [est. 1964]
Ruby's Diner chain [est. 1980]

DISH Network, Inc. satellite TV provider [est. 1996, spun off 2008]
name is an acronym for DIgital Sky Highway; prior to 2008, it operated as DISH Network, which was spun off as DISH on 1 January 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_Network

  Dow Chemical []

                         
EchoStar Corporation, Inc. satellite internet [est. 1980]
EchoStar is based out of unincorporated Arapahoe County, Colorado. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar

Hughes Network Systems, LLC / HughesNet, Inc. satellite internet service [est. 1971, renamed 2012]
Hughes Communications was spun-off as an independent public company in 2007; it was acquired by EchoStar in Feb 2011 for about $2 billion; the wholly-owned subsidiary is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland; as-of October 2018, HughesNet was the largest satellite internet provider in the U.S., with 1.3 million subscribers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Network_Systems

Helios Wire Corporation, Inc. satellite hardware [est. 2016] of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
EchoStar Global, LLC acquired Helios Wire and Sirion in October 2019, terms were not disclosed; HeliosWire manufactures mobile satellite & communication systems.
unable to find website or Wikipedia entry (12/2022)

Spirit of America Bookstore's Enron Corp. [1985-2006] Page

Entercom Communications Corp. [est. 1968]
One of the largest radio broadcasting companies in the United States, with over 100 stations in 23 markets.
official website • Wikipedia

ExxonMobil - the world's largest publicly-traded oil company
Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Monopolies / Petroleum

"Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" [5/2012] by Steve Coll
http://www.amazon.com/Private-Empire-ExxonMobil-American-Power/dp/1594203350/

Facebook, Inc. [est. 2004]
Facebook official website • Facebook entry at Wikipedia

Spirit of America Bookstore's Facebook, Inc. Page

Ferry-Morse Seed Company [est. 1856] of Fulton, Kentucky
www.Ferry-Morse.com

General Electric [est. 1879]

General Electric was established by Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931], and was ranked in 2009 by Forbes Magazine as the world's largest company. G.E. bought 80% of Universal Pictures from Vivendi in 2004. By 2010, Vivendi sold its stake to Comcast prior to Comcast's purchase of a major stake in NBC-Universal from G.E. As-of January 2011, G.E. owned 49% of NBC-Universal, with Comcast owning the rest. In February 2013, Comcast signed a deal to pay $16.7B for all of G.E.'s Universal stock.

General Electric entry at Wikipedia

"The Secret To G.E.'s Success: A Former Insider Reveals The Management Strategies of The World's Most Competitive Company" [2007] by William E. Rothschild McGraw-Hill hardcover [1/2007] for $20.40

        
General Motors [est. 1908]
Based in Detroit, Michigan; current marques include Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Opel, Vauxhall & Holden;
former brands include Oldsmobile, Packard, Oakland, LaSalle, Pontiac, Saturn & Hummer

"My Years With General Motors" [] by Alfred Sloan
http://www.amazon.com/Years-General-Motors-Alfred-Sloan/dp/0385042353/

Google, Inc. [est. 1996]
Founded in 1996; incorporated 1998; stock I.P.O. in 2004; reorganized as Alphabet, Inc. in October 2015.
main Google website • company entry at Wikipedia
Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock Quote & Summary Data at NASDAQ

Spirit of America Bookstore's Google, Inc. Page

YouTube, LLC was founded by three former PayPal employees in February 2005; Google Inc. paid
$1.65 billion for the company in November 2006; based in San Bruno, California.
official website • entry at Wikipedia

YouTube TV is a for-fee live-streaming broadcast TV service that was launched in February 2017 in five metro areas: Los Angeles, San Francisoc Bay, Chicago, New York City, and Philadelphia ('with more areas soon'). Cost is $35/month, for six accounts per household; contents derived from ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and NBC – as well as 40 cable channels.
official website • entry at Wikipedia

Great Harvest Bread Company [est. 1975]
based in Dillon, Montana with over 200 franchised locations
official website • company entry at Wikipedia

Hachette Livres Publishing [est. 19--]
Hachette owns Randon House which owns Little, Brown & Company of Boston
which owns Virago Modern Classics [est. 1978]
Spare Ribs / Virago set out to publish either women who were out of print or whose work didn’t get the respect that it deserved,
and changed the literary landscape in the process • http://www.virago.co.uk/ + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virago_Press

  Halliburton [est. 1919]
Halliburton division Kellogg-Brown & Root [spun off 2007] committed war-profiteering during the Iraq War
Halliburton division Dresser Industries [purchased 1998] was a major cause of the B.P. Gulf Coast Megaspill of 2010

Halliburton Watch
Halliburton Employees' Federal Credit Union

books and other info about Halliburton are on Working Minds Philosophy's Barbarians & Fascists Page

                                      
Hasbro Industries [est. 1923] of Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Henry & Helal Hassenfeld founded textile firm Hassenfeld Brothers in Rhode Island and expanded into school supplies and then into toys; their first hit toy was "Mr. Potatohead" in the 1950s; in 1964, they created the term 'action figure' for their "G.I. Joe" line because boys wouldn't play with dolls. The company name was changed to Hasbro Industries in 1968.

1969: Hasbro purchased Romper Room, Inc. now called Claster Television Productions 1982: Hasbro launched the "My Little Pony" toy franchise 1984: Hasbro purchased Milton Bradley Company – "The Game of Life", "Candy Land",         "Twister", "Chutes and Ladders", and "Yahtzee" 1984: Hasbro launched the "Transformers" toy franchise 1985: Hasbro purchased C.B.S. Toys 1986: Hasbro purchased Playskool 1991: Hasbro purchased Parker Brothers, which included the "Monopoly™" game 1991: Hasbro purchased Kenner, which included the Tonka Toys line

company website • entry at Wikipedia

Hasbro, Inc. announced in December 2012 that it is combining its content initiatives (including television, film, commercial productions, and short-form content)
under Los Angeles-based Hasbro Studios and president Stephen Davis. The studio division was launched in 2009 by Davis, who reports to Hasbro’s chief
marketing officer. Operations include Hasbro’s Film Group in Los Angeles and the company’s Rhode Island-based studio facility. The division will also oversee
Hasbro’s feature film slate, which recently includes "Transformers 4" with Paramount, "Stretch Armstrong" with Relativity Media, and "Candy Land" with Sony.
Hasbro Studios website • Hasbro Studios at Wikipedia

Helms Bakery [1931-69] of Culver City, California
Helms Bakery History • Wikipedia
Helms Bakery Memories fansite

Helms Bakery District
The Helms Bakery building is now packed with antique stores, cafes, a jazz nightclub, and a museum.

Hormel Foods Corp. [est. 1891] of Austin, Minnesota
Hormel Foods entry at Wikipedia
Hormel 1985 Strike entry at Wikipedia

	"No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor's War At Hormel" [1989] by Dave Hage & Paul Klauda Wm. Morrow 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/89] out of print/many used
	"On Strike At Hormel: The Struggle For A Democratic Labor Movement" [1990] by Hardy Green Temple Univ Press 8x5½ pb [5/91] out of print/used Temple Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [2/90] out of print/used
	"Hard-Pressed In The Heartland: The Hormel Strike & The Future of The Labor Movement" [1999] by Peter Rachleff South End Press 8½x5½ pb [7/99] for $12.53 South End Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [7/99] out of print/used

"American Dream" documentary film
[festival circuit 1990, Miramax March 1992]

Oscar-winning chronicle of the six-month 1985 strike at Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota. The P-9 local of the Food and Commercial Workers Union rejected a $2-per-hour pay cut and went out on strike. Besides the worker-union conflict, the national union and the P-9 local disagreed on strategy & tactics, and bitter intra- and inter-family conflict didn't help any. The film leaves the viewer with the question of whether the failed strike helped or hindered the labor movement. Directed by Barbara Kopple, with Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke & Lawrence Silk; won Oscar for Best Documentary Feature; won D.G.A. Award, I.D.A. Award, 3 awards at Sundance Film Festival Miramax Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [1/2012] for $19.98 HBO Home Video color VHS [12/93] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

            
Interstate Bakeries / Hostess Brands, Inc. [1930-2012]

Founded as Interstate Bakeries in 1930; longtime base in Kansas City, Missouri. Company acquired/merged with the Continental Baking division of Ralston Purina, which owned the Hostess & Wonder Bread Brands; moved to Irving, Texas. Company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 2004 and emerged as a private company in February 2009, fifty percent owned by venture capitalists; name changed to Hostess Brands in November 2009. A second bankruptcy in January 2012 was complicated by demands for employees to take cuts in pay and pensions and healthcare, while paying the outgoing CEO a $2.5M compensation package and giving executives an 80% pay increase. The bakers union rejected company demands by a 92% vote, and struck on 9 November 2012; company announced on November 16 changing bankruptcy to liquidation, hoping to sell off its various brands at a profit. The brands include Blue Ribbon, Butternut Bread, Dolly Madison, Drake's, Holsom, Home Pride, Hostess (Twinkies, Ding Dongs & Ho Hos), Millbrook, Nature's Pride, San Francisco French Bread & Wonder Bread.

official company website • entry at Wikipedia