The Home Depot is the retail chain dedicated to home improvement products, that was created in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank in the United States, under the vision of offering one-stop shopping for the “do-it-yourselfers”. Today it has 2,287...
Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American retail chain, which began operations in Seattle, Washington, in 1983. Ten years later, it merged with The Price Company to form Price / Costco and since 1999, it works under its current name. Today, the...
Chipotle Mexican Grill is a fast-food restaurant chain that specializes in Mexican food. It was born with the first store opened by Steve Ells -today Chairman- in Denver, Colorado in 1993 sought to create a different experience with quality ingredients, classic...
Cisco is an American technology provider specialized in software, services and equipment for networks, which was created in 1984 by a couple of Stanford students, Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner, after managing to link their computers through existing router technology, but...
International Business Machines (IBM) is an IT software and service company, that was born in 1911 after integrating four manufacturers of calculating machines, factory watches and butcher scales. Years later, it started producing huge computers with its own microprocessors, which were...
Boeing is an American company created in 1916 that is dedicated to the manufacture, development and commercialization of airplanes for commercial use. It has also been focused on the production of space systems, defense, military airplanes, helicopters, weapons and missiles, along...
Blue Apron is an online meal kit and delivery service that was born in 2012, when Matt Salzberg, Ilia Papas and Matt Wadiak prepared the first boxes to send to their friends and family from an apartment in New York City. Their goal was to...
Starbucks is a coffee house chain that was created in Seattle, USA in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl. In the beginning, they only sold roasted coffee beans until in 1987, when the company was sold to Howard...
Nike is the world’s leading shoe and sportswear brand, which was created in 1964 in Oregon, United States, by the athletic trainer Bill Bowerman and his student Phil Knight, under the name of Blue Ribbon Sports. Two years later, it had...
eBay is an online market place for sales and auctions that brings together sellers of new and used products with their buyers. Created in California in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar, it succeeded immediately by going public in 1998 and soon became...
