History of Specific Companies/Corporate History

The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railways Swindon Works ico...

The Union-Castle Lines heritage spans over a century. It provided the mail service to South Africa for 120 years and established an unrivalled repu...

China's economic rise and influence has been one of the most significant developments in the global economy of recent times. A driving force behind...

The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture. This first history of Avon tells the story of a direct sales company th...

From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography....

Professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett describes Interfax''s initiative as great boldness: an independent, profitable information company, giving decision-m...

What can you learn from the worlds most successful companies? Marvel characters have been shaping pop culture for decades and when comic books were...

If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package King tears down the Brown Wall surrounding one of ...

What can you learn from one of the most successful companies in the world? The Spanx Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strat...

MG was a home-grown concept that became an international success, bringing the small market town of Abingdon onto the global map. MG - Made in Abin...

From Oil Rig to Runway: Universal Life Lessons and Career Tips from the Former CEO of Calvin Klein Tom Murry headed Calvin Klein as CEO for sev...

Focusing on passion leads to purpose, success, and a life of no regrets. Frank Fiume II, the founder of i9 Sports, the largest youth sports franch...

The first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape.Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordin...

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It grew to have one of the most recognizable and valuab...

This book is a fan tribute to the original adidas models, the so-called OG''s - it includes original adidas basketball, tennis, and running shoes...

Brooklyns Domino Sugar Refinery, once the largest in the world, shut down in 2004 after a long struggle. Most New Yorkers know it only as an icon o...