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Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. ( German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [2]
The Spanish conquest of the San Francisco Bay area came later than to Southern California. San Francisco's characteristic foggy weather and geography led early European explorers such as Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo to bypass the Golden Gate and miss entering San Francisco Bay, although it seems clear from historical accounts of navigation that ...
The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange was founded in 1882 [3] on September 18, in a basement in San Francisco. [6] [7] The exchange was founded as the San Francisco Stock Exchange. On September 18, twenty-five brokers met in the basement of Wohl & Rollitz, which was at 403 California Street in the old Fireman's Fund Insurance Building.
As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been bought ...
Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco.
List of San Francisco newspapers. AsianWeek. Bay Area Reporter. California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences (1855-1880) [1] California Star (1847-1848) [1] California Star & Californian (1848) [1] Chung Sai Yat Po. Daily Evening Bulletin (1855-1895) [2] Daily Evening News [3]
Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street. 37°48′37″N 122°25′22″W. / 37.8103°N 122.4227°W / 37.8103; -122.4227 ( ALMA (Scow Schooner)) Fisherman's Wharf. Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas. 5.