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Siemens Mobility and Consortium Partners Secure Important Rail Contracts in Thailand to Transform Public Transportation
18 Dec 2024
Comprehensive turnkey contract for Orange Line to deliver 32 new trains and provide full-scale services from design to integration of mechanical and el ...
Siemens and Oracle Red Bull Racing celebrate 20 years of innovation
12 Dec 2024
Siemens Digital Industries Software is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its collaboration with Oracle Red Bull Racing, representing one of the longe ...
Siemens Smart Infrastructure sets higher ambitions to drive next level of value creation
12 Dec 2024
Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) held its Capital Market Event today showcasing outstanding financial performance and value creation. SI announced upg ...
Siemens and SuperTrak CONVEYANCE™ partner to expand smart conveyance offering
12 Dec 2024
Siemens, a leading technology company, and SuperTrak CONVEYANCE™, a market leader in linear motion conveyance, announced a new strategic collaboratio ...
First Mireo Plus H hydrogen trains from Siemens Mobility in passenger service
12 Dec 2024
Siemens Mobility announced today that the first Mireo Plus H hydrogen trains have received authorization for passenger operation in time for the schedu ...
Siemens invites to the 2025 Annual Shareholders' Meeting and proposes a new Supervisory Board member
11 Dec 2024
Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be held in virtual format on February 13, 2025 Mark Schneider, former CEO of Nestlé S.A. and Fre ...
Siemens partners with University of Kent to decarbonize campus, cut emissions by 50%
11 Dec 2024
The University of Kent (UoK) is set to cut emissions generated on campus by 50 percent through a new carbon reduction strategy developed in partnership ...
Siemens ranked as a leader in IoT digital platforms for building operations
06 Dec 2024
Siemens Smart Infrastructure has been named as one of the leaders in building operations by the independent research and advisory firm Verdantix. The r ...
Siemens Mobility provides propulsion systems to new CAF trains for Metro de Madrid
06 Dec 2024
Siemens Mobility is proud to announce its agreement with the leading Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles ...
Siemens achieves strong progress on sustainability targets
06 Dec 2024
Siemens continues to strengthen its leadership in sustainability, achieving key milestones outlined in the newly published 2024 Sustainability Report. ...
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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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