History of Specific Companies/Corporate History

Land Rover Freelander - The Complete Story recounts the history of the Land Rover Freelander, and its popular successor, the Freelander 2. This ne...

Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on eart...

A great deal has been written about Steve Jobs and Apple. Not nearly as much has been produced about Bill Gates and Microsoft, especially in the te...

In November 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell in-depth investigation that exposed, with disturbing insider detail, how leadership deci...

For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire...

The Caledonian Steam Packet Co. was founded in 1889 by the Caledonian Railway and in 2014 is 125 years old. It originally sailed from Gourock but c...

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the worlds first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to ...

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...

In the nineteenth century there were thousands of British gunmakers plying their trade the length and breadth of the land building all qualities of...

This book covers the long history, from its origins through to the present day, of the historic Italian manufacturer Beta Motorcycles, active in th...

Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode the kidnap and ransom of ...

One Christmas Eve, Prince Sanruddin Aga Khan gave to his wife a magnificent jeweled box made by Cartier in the 1930s. So began the making of perhap...

William Heffer started his bookselling and stationery business in 1876. By the 20th century it had become a Cambridge institution & in 2016 the...