The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in
Ohio in 1915. It also established a major base in the United
Kingdom, where it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner
industry during most of the 20th century. The company has
headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.
William Henry Hoover, founder of Hoover.
,
1910
CAMDEN, N.J. (WKRC/CNN Newsource) – One of the United States’
most iconic brands has changed its name.
Campbell’s Soup shareholders have officially approved a name
change for the iconic brand allowing the company to drop "Soup"
from its corporate title. The company will now be known as "The Campbell’s Company."
Leaders of the company explained that the decision reflects the
broader scope of Campbell’s offerings beyond soup.
The company said that there’s more to Campbell’s these days
than just soup, noting that soup now constitutes a smaller
portion of the company’s overall sales.
The company was started in 1869 by Joseph A. Campbell, a
fruit merchant from Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Abraham
Anderson, an icebox manufacturer from South Jersey.They
produced canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, soups,
condiments, and minced meats.
Joseph Albert Campbell
(1817 – 1900)
Entrance to Campbell’s headquarters in Camden, New Jersey
Phil Lesh, one of the founding members and bassist for the
band Grateful Dead, has died. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked
him as the 11th greatest bass player.
His death was confirmed on his official Instagram page, which
said he "passed peacefully this morning. He was surrounded
by his family and full of love." He was 84 years old.
Packard (formerly the Packard Motor Car Company) was
a luxury automobile company located in Detroit, Michigan.
The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899,
and the last Packard’s were built in South Bend, Indiana,
in 1958.
James Ward Packard William Doud Packard
(1863 – 1928) (1861 – 1923)
On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth,
England, bound for the Americas with 102 passengers. The
ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists—half
religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs—had been
authorized to settle by the British crown.
However, stormy weather and navigational errors forced the
Mayflower off course, and on November 21 the “Pilgrims”
reached Massachusetts, where they founded the first
permanent European settlement in New England in late
December.
