american businesspeople
Vivek Ranadive
1958 births | american businesspeople | american chief executives | businesspeople in software | harvard business school alumni | living people | massachusetts institute of technology alumni | people from mumbaiVivek Ranadivé (b. 1958, Mumbai, India) is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of TIBCO Software, the computer software technology company he founded in 1985. The Palo Alto company employs 1,600 and has annual revenue of more than $500 million. Ranadivé's New York Times business bestseller, "The Power of Now: How Winning Companies Sense and Respond to Change Using Real-time Technology" has been widely used in academia.
John Pitcairn, Jr.
1841 births | 1916 deaths | american businesspeople | american philanthropists | people from pennsylvania | scottish immigrants to the united statesJohn Pitcairn
John Pitcairn, Jr. (10 Jan 1841 - 22 July 1916) was a Scottish-born American industrialist who founded the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (now PPG Industries).
Early life
Pitcairn was born in Johnstone, Scotland. He emigrated with his family to Pittsburgh in 1846, where his uncle had started a woolens business.John W. Tyson
1967 deaths | american businesspeople | people from arkansasJohn W. Tyson (189_ -1967) was the founder of the company that became corporate food giant Tyson Foods.
In the early 1930's, John Tyson knew he could make money by selling chickens outside Arkansas' borders, so he began hauling birds to markets as far away as Kansas City and Chicago. Before long, Tyson was moving toward vertical integration, where he could control the product from the egg to the consumer's table. First, he purchased incubators from a local hatchery-owner when his chick supplier refused to supply birds. The incubators were a success, and Tyson quickly had all of the chicks he needed to supply local growers. Later on, when a local feed mill told Tyson he would have to wait for feed, he decided to mill his own. By the end of the decade, he had become a commercial feed dealer for Ralston Purina. About Tyson - History - 1930s
Lovie Yancey
1912 births | 2008 deaths | american businesspeople | deaths from pneumonia | fast-food chain foundersLovie Yancey (Born 3 January 1912 - 26 January 2008) was the American founder of the Fatburger restaurant chain. She originally owned a small restaurant in Tucson. In 1947 she founder Fatburger under its original name Mr. Fatburger. In 1952, Yancey shed both her business partners and the "Mr." in the hamburger stand's name, and Fatburger was officially born. From the beginning, Yancey was a fixture at the original Fatburger, where customers, who included entertainers such as Redd Foxx and Ray Charles, could custom-order their burgers. Yancey always claimed "I don't worry about McDonald's, Burger King or Wendy's, They may be more popular, but a good hamburger sells itself, and I don't think anybody makes as good a hamburger as we do."
Yancey sold her Fatburger company to an investment group in 1990 but retained control of the original property on Western Avenue. She established a $1.7-million endowment at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte in 1986 for research into sickle-cell anemia. This was in fulfillment of a promise to her 22-year-old grandson, Duran Farrell, who had died of the disease three years earlier.
Irving Jacob Reuter
1865 births | 1972 deaths | american businesspeople | people from detroit» source
Lyman G. Bloomingdale
1842 births | 1904 deaths | american art collectors | american businesspeople | american jews | american retail chief executives | jewish businesspeople | people from new yorkLyman G. Bloomingdale (1841 - 1905) was an American businessman who in April of 1872, with his brother Joseph, founded Bloomingdales Department Store on 56th Street in New York City.
The son of Bavarian-born Benjamin Bloomimgdale, Lyman and his brother Joseph and were trained in the retailing of ladies clothing at their father's store. Going into business for themselves, the Bloomingdale brothers new store sold a wide variety of European fashions, anchored through their own buying office in Paris, France. Their success resulted in the business outgrowing its premises and in 1886 they relocated operations to its famous present-day location at 59th Street and Third Avenue where Bloomingdale became one of the most widely recognized brand names in the world.
Nelson Bates
american business writers | american businesspeople | american entrepreneurs | american financial writers | american motivational writers | american self-help writers | internet marketing | living peopleNelson Bates
Nelson Bates is President of BestWebsite, LLC. Nelson has spent more than 12 years building successful internet businesses as an entrepreneur. BestWebsite.com provides step-by-step instructions for building profitable online businesses and interviews of successful website business owners.
Larry Finley
1913 births | 2000 deaths | american businesspeople | american entrepreneurs | american radio personalities | american radio producers | american television producers | american television talk show hosts | people from los angeles | people from syracuse, new yorkLarry Finley (May 14 1913 - April 3 2000) was a late night broadcast pioneer as well a leader in the audiotape and videotape business.
Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, he became a Syracuse nightclub manager at age 18 before moving to Los Angeles in the 1930's and opening a chain of jewelery stores. In the 1940's, he became a business partner with musicians Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey in ownership of the Casino Gardens Ballroom in San Diego, where he also owned radio station KSDJ. He created his own TV production company, Finley Productions, Inc., the first such operation on the West Coast. >
