AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel’s largest European solar energy plant goes live in Poland
30 Oct 2024
AkzoNobel’s largest European solar energy plant goes live in Poland | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel delivers continued growth with sequential benefits from cost actions
23 Oct 2024
AkzoNobel delivers continued growth with sequential benefits from cost actions | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel to begin portfolio review with initial focus on Deco South Asia
04 Oct 2024
AkzoNobel to begin portfolio review with initial focus on Deco South Asia | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel goes the extra mile to help residents of world’s highest motorable village
03 Oct 2024
AkzoNobel goes the extra mile to help residents of world’s highest motorable village | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel answers market need by inventing particle technology for metal effect powder coatings
26 Sep 2024
AkzoNobel answers market need by inventing particle technology for metal effect powder coatings | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel innovation helping consumer electronics industry to use more recycled plastics
25 Sep 2024
AkzoNobel innovation helping consumer electronics industry to use more recycled plastics | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel optimizes its functional organization to help drive profitable growth
24 Sep 2024
AkzoNobel optimizes its functional organization to help drive profitable growth | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel strengthens carbon reduction commitment with superdurable range of low-energy powder coatings
12 Sep 2024
AkzoNobel strengthens carbon reduction commitment with superdurable range of low-energy powder coatings | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel successfully issues a €500 million bond
11 Sep 2024
AkzoNobel successfully issues a €500 million bond | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel’s Color of the Year 2025 radiates True Joy
10 Sep 2024
AkzoNobel’s Color of the Year 2025 radiates True Joy | AkzoNobel
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.
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