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Center City Philadelphia at night in February 2016 This is a list of companies either based or with large operations in the Philadelphia and greater Delaware Valley region area of the United States.
Godfrey Phillips India Ltd. Godfrey Phillips India Ltd. (GPI) is a tobacco manufacturer headquartered in India. It is now a part of Modi Enterprises. The company is a major player in the domestic cigarette industry. In 2013-2014 it reported an annual turnover of Rs 4,220 crores.
Grades. 9-12. Enrollment. 540. Campus. Urban. Website. randolph .philasd .org. Randolph Technical High School is a Philadelphia public high school that is named in honor of A. Philip Randolph, a union and civil rights leader, and is run by the Philadelphia School District.
Turner Construction was founded in New York City in 1902 by Henry Chandlee Turner. Its first project was a $690 concrete vault in Brooklyn, followed by concrete staircases for the New York City Subway. By the late 1920s, Turner was constructing buildings for large businesses in the United States. Turner's stock began trading on the American ...
Following passage of the Act, during the Philadelphia transit strike of 1944, the government backed African-American workers' striking to gain positions formerly limited to white employees. [18] Leaders of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.
Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder. The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.
The list of notable Wharton School alumni are graduates of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Wharton offers four degree programs: undergraduate, an MBA, an EMBA, and a Doctoral degree. As of 2023, there are approximately 105,000 alumni in over 150 different countries, including 79,280 in North America, 5,660 in Asia, 4,510 ...
Married. Children. 1. Rakesh Gangwal (born 25 July 1952) is an Indian-American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and 25.2% owner of IndiGo airline. [ 1] He is the former chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of US Airways Group. From June 2003 to August 2007, Gangwal was the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of ...