What company did Freddie A. Laker's father found in 1966?
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Freddie A. Laker Freddie Allen Laker is a British-American entrepreneur and the founder of the tech startup Guide. Prior to founding Guide, he launched the Internet service provider Laker.net and the digital agency iChameleon Group, and worked at SapientNitro as the company's vice president of global marketing strategy. He is the son of Sir Freddie Laker, the founder of British airline Laker Airways.
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Freddie Laker Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982. Known as "Freddie Laker", he was one of the first airline owners to adopt the "no-frills" airline business model that has since proven to be very successful worldwide with companies such as Southwest Airlines, Norwegian Air, Ryanair, easyJet, AirAsia and WestJet.
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Alliance Rubber Company Alliance Rubber Company is a US manufacturer of rubber bands, founded by William H. Spencer in 1923 in Alliance, Ohio. The company sells its products to commercial stationers, newspapers, produce growers, the United States government, post offices, retailers, promotional products industry, and industrial packaging houses.
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Berkley (fishing) Berkley is a fishing tackle company founded in Spirit Lake, Iowa in 1937 as Berkley Fly Co. by Berkley Bedell.
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Johnson Publishing Company Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publishing company founded in November 1942 by businessman John H. Johnson. Headquartered at 200 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Led by its flagship publication, "Ebony", Johnson Publishing is the largest African-American-owned publishing firm in the United States. Johnson Publishing Company also published "Jet" magazine, a weekly magazine from November 1951 until June 2014. The company operates a book division, which has published books such as "The New Ebony Cookbook" and the more controversial "".The company produced the 1954 film "The Secret of Selling the Negro Market", which was designed to encourage advertisers to promote their products and services in the African American media. In 2016, Johnson announced the sale of its publications and the creation of a new publisher by the new owner called "Ebony Media Corp." The specialty cosmetics business will be retained by Johnson.
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Container Corporation of America Container Corporation of America (CCA) was founded in 1926 and manufactures corrugated boxes. In 1968 CCA merged with Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc., becoming MARCOR. MARCOR maintained separate management for the operations of each company, but had a joint board of directors. In 1986, Mobil Corporation, which had bought MARCOR in the early 1970s, sold the CCA company to the Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, which merged with the Stone Container Corporation in 1998 to become part of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. CCA is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation.
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Deseret Management Corporation The Deseret Management Corporation (DMC) ( ) is a management and holding company of for-profit businesses owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was established in 1966 by church president David O. McKay to hold already-existing church assets.
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Gene Lake Oliver Gene Lake, Jr. (born January 12, 1966, St. Louis) is an American jazz drummer. He is the son of saxophonist Oliver Lake.
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Bill Ayer William S. "Bill" Ayer (born 1955 in Seattle, Washington, United States) is an American former chairman, president, pilot and chief executive officer of Alaska Airlines and Alaska Air Group which is the parent company of Alaska Airlines and its sister carrier Horizon Air.
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Silver Lake Partners Silver Lake is an American private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in technology, technology-enabled and related industries. Founded in 1999, the firm is one of the largest technology investors in the world. Notable among its investment holdings are Broadcom, Dell, Alibaba, GoDaddy, William Morris Endeavor, IMG Worldwide, Avaya, Sabre Holdings, Skype, Symantec, GLG, Seagate Technology and NASDAQ. Silver Lake is headquartered in Menlo Park with offices in San Mateo, Cupertino, New York, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.
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Brother Records Brother Records, Inc. (BRI) is a holding company established in 1967 that holds the intellectual property rights of The Beach Boys, including "The Beach Boys" trademark. Prior to being incorporated, Brother Records was a record label founded by Beach Boys' manager Nick Grillo in October 1966. Its output was distributed by Capitol Records in 1967, and then Reprise Records throughout 1970–78.
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Robert H. Garff Robert Heiner "Bob" Garff (born 1942) is an American businessman, who is chairman of the Ken Garff Automotive Group. His father, Ken Garff, was the company's founder.
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Charles F. Conrad Charles Frederick Conrad (July 8, 1917 – September 2, 1995) was the founder of the Lake Michigan Carferry Service. He is also known as an industrialist who made environmental test chambers for the aircraft and aerospace industries.
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Laker Airways Laker Airways was a wholly private, British independent airline founded by Sir Freddie Laker in 1966. It originally was a charter airline flying passengers and cargo worldwide. Its head office was located at London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, England.
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Frederick M. Ayres Sr. Frederic Murray Ayres Sr. (February 17, 1872 – May 15, 1940) was president of L. S. Ayres and Company from 1896 to 1940. The flagship store of his family's midwestern retail department store chain was founded by Lyman S. Ayres, his father, in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1872.
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AMR Corporation AMR Corporation was a commercial aviation business and airline holding company based in Fort Worth, Texas, which was the parent company of American Airlines, American Eagle Airlines, AmericanConnection and Executive Airlines. AMR filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2011, and merged with US Airways Group on December 9, 2013 to form American Airlines Group, Inc.
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Diamond Alkali Diamond Alkali Company was an American chemical company incorporated in 1910 in West Virginia by a group of glass industry businessmen from Pittsburgh. The company soon established as a large chemical plant at Fairport Harbor, Ohio, along with Jadeja Chemicals Inc. which would operate for over sixty years. In 1947, the headquarters of the company was moved from Pittsburgh to Cleveland. In 1967, Diamond Alkali and Shamrock Oil and Gas merged to form the Diamond Shamrock Corporation. Diamond Shamrock would go on to merge with Ultramar Corporation, and the combined company, Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation, would in turn be acquired by Valero Energy Corporation in 2001.
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Young Living Young Living is a Lehi, Utah based multi-level marketing company that sells essential oils and other related products. The company was founded in 1993 by Donald Gary Young.
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Bob Iger Robert Allen Iger ( ; born February 10, 1951) is an American businessman who is chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company. Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996. He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake up the management of the company. As part of his yearly compensation, Iger earned $44.9 million in 2015.
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Freddie Awards The Freddie Awards, named after Sir Freddie Laker in honor of his accomplishments in marketing travel during the 1970s, is the "oldest and most prominent" recognition award for frequent traveler reward programs.
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Lake Shore Drive (album) Lake Shore Drive is the third album by Chicago-based rock group Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, released in 1971 on the Quicksilver Records label.
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MV American Mariner M/V "American Mariner" is a diesel-powered Lake freighter owned and operated by the American Steamship Company (ASC). This vessel was built in 1980 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology.