10 Comments on Which 1955 Fortune 500 Companies Are Still Here in 2016?
There are more monopolies now than ever before and there is no effort to control it. That’s how google, apple, microsoft, amazon and others got the power to control gov’t and politicians.
Big biz gets what it wants and it wants cheap imported labor, illegals, muslims and gays.
There are some things the gov’t should regulate to encourage competition and innovation and stop approving every merger because of the global economy b/s.
Someday there will be one company; googleamazon corp.
Speaking of monopolies: Providers of Cable Services are given monopolies within zip codes. Competition is eliminated by the FCC. In the same way Ma Bell had a phone monopoly.
Wonder how many are owned by the same people (corporations?) which owned them in 1955?
I thought Pfizer was a kraut company … shows what I know!
izlamo delenda est …
Now if I can just get my flux capacitor replaced…
Ford? I can’t believe they weren’t on the 1955 list.
How many of those companies were in existence in 1916? What top 1916 companies exist today?
@extirpares
Not really. Verizon FIOS is available as a direct competitor in certain markets . For TV there’s DIRECTV and Dish.
With any luck Kellogg’s won’t be on the list in 2017.
There are more monopolies now than ever before and there is no effort to control it. That’s how google, apple, microsoft, amazon and others got the power to control gov’t and politicians.
Big biz gets what it wants and it wants cheap imported labor, illegals, muslims and gays.
There are some things the gov’t should regulate to encourage competition and innovation and stop approving every merger because of the global economy b/s.
Someday there will be one company; googleamazon corp.
Speaking of monopolies: Providers of Cable Services are given monopolies within zip codes. Competition is eliminated by the FCC. In the same way Ma Bell had a phone monopoly.
Wonder how many are owned by the same people (corporations?) which owned them in 1955?
I thought Pfizer was a kraut company … shows what I know!
izlamo delenda est …
Now if I can just get my flux capacitor replaced…
Ford? I can’t believe they weren’t on the 1955 list.
How many of those companies were in existence in 1916? What top 1916 companies exist today?
@extirpares
Not really. Verizon FIOS is available as a direct competitor in certain markets . For TV there’s DIRECTV and Dish.
With any luck Kellogg’s won’t be on the list in 2017.
F for FORD http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/letters/F.html
Ford Fortune500 Years
2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956
Ford appeared in 1956 http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/snapshots/1956/529.html
General Motors shouldn’t be on that list. The original died, and a new company took over the name, less a few ‘subsidiaries’.