From 1966 to 1973 Edward Staley was the chairman of a company founded by who?
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Edward Staley Edward Staley (1903 – December 9, 1987) was chairman of W. T. Grant, the American variety store chain, from 1966 until his retirement in 1973.
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W. T. Grant W. T. Grant or Grants was a United States-based chain of mass-merchandise stores founded by William Thomas Grant that operated from 1906 until 1976. The stores were generally of the variety store format located in downtowns.
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Reg Grundy Organisation The Reg Grundy Organisation (later the Grundy Organisation, then Grundy Television and known informally as Grundy's) was an Australian television production company founded in 1959 by businessman Reg Grundy. It later branched out into Europe and the USA. The company first produced game shows, then branched into soap operas in 1973. In 1995 Reg Grundy sold the company to Pearson Television, which has since become known as FremantleMedia and is part of the RTL Group (in turn 90% owned by Bertelsmann). In 2006 FremantleMedia merged Grundy Television and Crackerjack Productions to form FremantleMedia Australia. Until 2013 the name Grundy still existed in Germany as Grundy Light Entertainment and in Italy as Grundy Productions Italy.
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ECI Partners ECI Partners is a private equity group which celebrated its 40th anniversary in June 2016 having been established by the Bank of England in 1976. It invests in small to medium-sized companies headquartered in the United Kingdom.
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Euroclear Euroclear is a Belgium-based financial services company that specializes in the settlement of securities transactions as well as the safekeeping and asset servicing of these securities. It was founded in 1968 as part of J.P. Morgan & Co. to settle trades on the then developing eurobond market.
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JVC Victor Company of Japan, Ltd (日本ビクター株式会社 , Nippon Bikutā Kabushiki-gaisha ) , , usually referred to as JVC or The Japan Victor Company, is a Japanese international professional and consumer electronics corporation based in Yokohama. Founded in 1927, the company is best known for introducing Japan's first televisions and for developing the Video Home System (VHS) video recorder.
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Edgar Purnell Hooley Edgar Purnell Hooley (5 June 1860 – 26 January 1942) was an English inventor. After inventing tarmac in 1902, he founded Tar Macadam Syndicate Ltd the following year and registered tarmac as a trademark. Following a merger in 2013 the business became Tarmac Limited, one of the United Kingdom's largest building materials companies.
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Mulberry (company) Mulberry is a luxury fashion company founded in the United Kingdom in 1971, known internationally for its leather goods.
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Skelly Oil Skelly Oil Company was a medium-sized oil company founded in 1919 by William Grove (Bill) Skelly, Chesley Coleman Herndon and Frederick A. Pielsticker in Tulsa, Oklahoma. J. Paul Getty acquired control of the company during the 1930s. Skelly Oil became part of Getty Oil Company, Mission Oil Company, Tidewater Oil Company. It became defunct when absorbed by Getty Oil Company in 1974, and the abandoned Skelly brand logo was revived by Nimmons-Joliet Development Corp. in 2012.
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Roy Keith Black Roy Black (October 30, 1927 – December 28, 2009) was a British-born businessman, best known for owning and operating, Electronic Rentals Group, a UK public company during the 1960s in Dublin, Ireland specializing in television rentals. By 1970, ERG was the world's second largest Electronic Rental Company in the world with operations in 22 countries. From 1967 to 1973, he owned Gola Sporting Goods.
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Simmons &amp; Company International Simmons & Company International is one of the largest independent investment banks specializing in the energy industry, offering M&A advisory, capital markets execution and investment research. Simmons & Company International has offices in Houston, Aberdeen, London and Dubai. Simmons & Company International was founded in 1974 by Matthew R. Simmons with the focus of providing financial advisory services to a growing energy service sector. In 2009, Matt Simmons retired to become "Emeritus Chairman". As of June 16, 2010, Matt Simmons retired from the company.
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Arthur D. Little Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and formally incorporated by that name in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who had discovered acetate. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted professional services. The company played key roles in the development of business strategy, operations research, the word processor, the first synthetic penicillin, LexisNexis, SABRE and NASDAQ. Today the company is a multi-national management consulting firm operating as a partnership.
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The Gores Group The Gores Group is a global private equity firm specializing in acquiring and partnering with mature and growing businesses. The company was founded by its CEO and chairman, Alec E. Gores.
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Turner Entertainment Turner Entertainment Company, Inc. (commonly known as Turner Entertainment Co.) is a multimedia company founded by Ted Turner. Purchased by Time Warner, along with Turner Broadcasting System, the company was largely responsible for overseeing its library for worldwide distribution. In recent years, this role has largely been limited to being the copyright holder, as the library has since been incorporated into that of Turner Broadcasting's sibling company Warner Bros.
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Citadel LLC Citadel (formerly known as Citadel Investment Group, LLC) is an American global financial institution. Founded in 1990 by Kenneth C. Griffin, the company operates two primary businesses: Citadel, one of the world's largest alternative asset managers with more than $25 billion in assets under management; and Citadel Securities, one of the leading market makers in the world, trading products including equities, equity options, and interest rate swaps for retail and institutional clients.
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First Allied Corporation First Allied Corporation is an American real-estate holding company that owns and rents out shopping malls across the United States. It was founded in 1984 and is owned by the Glazer family, with Malcolm Glazer as President and CEO. His sons, Bryan Glazer, Joel Glazer and Edward Glazer, also own part of the company with Edward being Co-Chairman. The company is based out of Rochester, New York.
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John W. Tyson John W. Tyson (1905-1967) was an American businessman, the founder of American multinational corporation Tyson Foods and, from 1935 until his death in 1967, its Chief Executive Officer.
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Continental Steel Corporation The Continental Steel Corporation was United States steel producer from 1927 until 1986. The company was created on June 21, 1927 through the merger of the Kokomo Steel and Wire Company (founded in Kokomo, Indiana in 1901) with the Superior Sheet Steel Company of Canton, Ohio, and the Chapman Price Steel Company of Indianapolis. Among the original eleven directors was John E. Fredrick, who had been an organizer of the Kokomo Fence Machine Company in 1896 and had served on the board of directors of the Kokomo Steel and Wire Company. Fredrick served as first Chairman of the Board of Continental Steel, whose headquarters were established in Kokomo. The Kokomo operations of this corporation, however, continued to employ the Kokomo Steel and Wire name until 1944. Continental Steel was dissolved in 1986, due to bankruptcy.
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Norbrook Group Norbrook is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical company. It was founded in 1969 by Lord Ballyedmond as Norbrook Laboratories Ltd in Northern Ireland. In 1970, Norbrook began manufacturing of veterinary pharmaceuticals. In 2011 the Norbrook Group was listed by the Belfast Telegraph in its Top 100 Companies list as being in position 28
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Fred C. Koch Fred Chase Koch ( ; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which, under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons, Charles and David, is listed by "Forbes," as of 2015, as the second-largest privately held company in the United States.
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Bottom Line Inc. Bottom Line Inc. (formerly Boardroom, Inc.) is an American newsletter publishing company. It was founded in 1972 by Martin Edelston, who served as the company's chairman until his death on Oct 2 2013. The company is a member of the Direct Marketing Association. The company, doing business as Bottom Line Publications, publishes the following newsletters in print:
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Walter E. Heller Walter E. Heller (1891–1969) was an US financier and philanthropist, who founded Walter E. Heller and Company, Inc., Chicago, Illinois with money borrowed from his father in 1919. He originally started the company to do "automobile financing" as autos became more popular in the 1920s. The firm developed into a highly successful, multi-faceted international financial company that was a leader in various fields of finance, particularly in factoring.