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- 09 Aug 2011
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A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear grape spirit of South America .the fastest-growing spirit in the... View Details
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Sam Adams: Now (finally) in a can
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Sunny's MBA
In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile mill in Nigeria. A foreign exchange crisis was making it very... View Details
Robert T. B. Stevens
In response to the changing nature of the textile industry and to the growing inefficiencies in the company, Stevens merged the manufacturing and selling sides of the business and took the new entity public to raise much needed funds. The... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Justin Dart
Dart transformed United Drug into a profitable firm again. He did this by going with the Rexall banner, which the founder Louis Liggett had made into a household name, and discarding most of the other names in use by the company. Eventually, the company took the name... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Charles A. Cannon
Cannon pioneered a number of industry advances in cloth towel manufacturing including national consumer advertising, the Cannon trademark sewn into each towel, pastel colors, the wrapping of products in clear plastic, style shows, and... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Daniel J. Krumm
Krumm is credited with converting Maytag from a small specialty appliance concern into a broad-scale international operation. Through several acquisitions, Krumm built Maytag into one of the world’s top 4 appliance manufacturers while... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Charles R. Walgreen
Though Walgreen was trained as a pharmacist, he was an equally astute businessman. Walgreen personally manufactured some of his drugs in order to be able to maintain profitable low prices, and he also offered Walgreens branded merchandise... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Philip Sporn
transmission, distribution, and utilization. In 1954, Sporn received the Charles A. Coffin Medal for pioneering advancement in engineering. He was cited for two advances made by his company: operation of the country’s first 330K volt transmission line and initiation of... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
LeRoy A. Petersen
In his 22 years with Otis, Petersen helped the elevator manufacturer transition from war to peacetime production and become increasingly profitable in the process. Though the firm’s defense division still remained an integral part of... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Adolph Coors
Golden Brewery in Golden, Colorado. His business flourished, quickly becoming the leading brewery in the western United States. He brought new innovations to the brewery business and diversified the company’s product line by offering malted milk items and non-alcoholic... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
John J. Horan
Through heavy investments in research and development, Horan led Merck to become the leading U.S.-based manufacturer of prescription drugs in the world. Under Horan’s leadership, Merck doubled their spending on research – spending more... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
John R. Stafford
Stafford is credited with moving American Home Products from a diversified manufacturer of consumer health products into a major pharmaceutical company. He did so while consistently achieving impressive financial returns – continuing... View Details
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Charles R. Walgreen III
Rico, owned nearly 300 restaurants, most of which were adjacent to the drugstores, and manufactured over 400 Walgreens branded products. Walgreen’s became the first drug-store chain to earn revenues of a billion dollars. View Details
Keywords: Retail
Victor Emanuel
During World War II, Emanuel produced all types of military aircraft, including giant bombers, aircraft carriers, and cruisers. After the war, Emanuel led the conversion of AVCO from a producer of aircraft and heavy goods to a View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
James B. Duke
Five principal cigarette manufacturing companies merged to form American Tobacco in 1890 with Duke as head and with a capitalization of $25 million. In 1895, Duke began an aggressive campaign to absorb companies making other kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
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style="color:#0c3273">Auto Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India Site includes... View Details
Carol Bartz
Bartz was Chairman, CEO and President of Autodesk, one of the world’s largest suppliers of computer-aided design (CAD) automation software. Bartz raised manufacturing standards at Autodesk, built a strong sales force, and invested heavily... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics