History of Specific Companies/Corporate History

'An explosive new book' Daily Mail '[A] careful, comprehensive interrogation of every major Facebook scandal. An Ugly Truth provides the kind of sa...

Jayne-Anne Gadhia, the straight-talking CEO of Virgin Money, looks back at the events that have influenced, shaped and inspired her to become one o...

‘An excitable, high-octane account’ – IndependentIn October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter’s front doors after buying the digital giant fo...

The River Thames above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit ...

Start-ups rarely survive their second birthday. Even established firms in the UK and the US average a life of only fifteen years. So how can your c...

'A fast-paced, highly readable history of one of the defining companies of our time. If you're interested in Snapchat, or just plain mystified by i...

Wolseley cars are easily recognised by their illuminated radiator badges and unique front grilles, distinguishing them from their Austin and Morris...

This is the story of how the Mackeson brothers of Deal bought a brewery in the small Kent town of Hythe and transformed it into a producer of one o...

Huawei Technologies is today the world's largest telecoms equipment manufacturer and second behind Apple in smartphones. Its emergence into a multi...

Founded in 1987 by a former engineer in China’s People’s Liberation Army (Ren Zhengfei), Huawei Technologies is the world’s largest telecoms equipm...

Founded in 1987 by a former engineer in China's People's Liberation Army (Ren Zhengfei), Huawei Technologies is today the world's largest telecoms ...

Since its origins in the 1920s as a refrigerator factory in Qingdao supplying the Chinese market, Haier has risen to become a major multinational c...