William Harley and Arthur Davidson

THOMAS ALVA EDISON

*Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world*

The Edison Machine Works was a manufacturing company set up to produce dynamos, large electric motors, and other components of the electrical illumination system being built by Thomas A. Edison in New York City

The Edison Illuminating Company was established by Thomas Edison on December 17, 1880, to construct electrical generating stations, initially in New York City. The company was the prototype for other local illuminating companies that were established in the United States during the 1880s.

Edison General Electric Company
This company was incorporated in New York on April 24, 1889, in a merger of Edison's three electric light manufacturing companies (Edison Lamp Company, Edison Machine Works, and Bergmann & Company), with the patent-holding company, Edison Electric Light Company.

William S. Harley was an American entrepreneur and one of the founders of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company.
He took an interest in the early development of the bicycle, which fueled his fascination with mechanics and engineering.

Phineas Taylor Barnum

P.T. Barnum, in full Phineas Taylor Barnum, American showman who employed sensational forms of presentation and publicity to popularize such amusements as the public museum, the musical concert, and the three-ring circus

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, also known as the Ringling Bros. Circus, Ringling Bros.,the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Barnum & Bailey or simply Ringling was an American traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth

Arthur Davidson,was only twenty years old when he and his childhood friend William S. Harley teamed up to work on their idea for a motor-driven bicycle structured for personal use. In the beginning stages of their partnership they brought their respective designs and skill sets to the table, Arthur, with his own pattern for a small, air-cooled gasoline engine, and William, with his previous experience building bicycles.

Harley-Davidson Motor Company an American motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Along with Indian, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression. The company has survived numerous ownership arrangements, subsidiary arrangements, periods of poor economic health and product quality, and intense global competition to become one of the world's largest motorcycle manufacturers and an iconic brand widely known for its loyal following.

Maggie Lena Walker

Maggie Lena Walker was one of the foremost female business leaders in the United States. She gained national prominence when she became the first woman to own a bank in the United States. Walker’s entrepreneurial skills transformed black business practices while also inspiring other women to enter the field.

The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank was founded in 1903 by Maggie Lena Walker. Walker holds the distinction of being the first African-American woman to establish and serve as president of a bank in the U.S. ... After the mergers, the bank was renamed Consolidated Bank & Trust, and Walker became chairman of the board.

The Independent Order of St. Luke (IOSL) identified and provided for African American needs. Over three decades, the IOSL grew from a burial society to a fraternal order and life insurance company. It provided a social outlet and security to its members, including the payment of death benefits

Ingvar Kamprad

Ingvar Kamprad a Swedish entrepreneur who in 1943 founded IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer in the early 21st century. Kamprad displayed entrepreneurial skills as a boy when he began selling matches to neighbours. In 1943, at age 17, he founded a company called IKEA, the name of which was based on his own initials and on the first letters of the farm (Elmtaryd) and the village (Agunnaryd) where he grew up

IKEA is a Swedish-founded, Dutch-headquartered multinational conglomerate that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other goods and home services. Started in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been the world's largest furniture retailer since 2008. The brand used by the group is an acronym that consists of the founder's initials, and those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnary

Stephen Wozniak and Steve Jobs

Steve Wozniak, byname of Stephen Gary Wozniak, American electronics engineer, cofounder, with Steve Jobs, of Apple Computer, and designer of the first commercially successful personal computer.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company that specializes in consumer electronics, software and online services. Apple is the largest information technology company by revenue (totaling US$365.8 billion in 2021) and, as of January 2021, it is the world's most valuable company, the fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales and second-largest mobile phone manufacturer

Russell Simmons

Russell Simmons heads an empire built by rap music. As cofounder of the pioneering record label Def Jam in the 1980s, he helped launch the careers of a number of important artists, such as Run-D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys. His empire includes a clothing line and even an energy drink, but it is his social activism that has caused some to say he might one day make an ideal mayor of New York City.

Created in 1992, Phat Farm represents the most influential streetwear line of its day. Founded by Russell Simmons, the brand is credited for pioneering what would ultimately become the standard, sometimes stereotypical, hip-hop look. The brand also changed mainstream fashion by bringing into light the hip-hop style with a preppy twist into center stage.

Argyleculture (Argyle Culture) is a successful new eyewear collection commemorating the class, stature, and respect achieved by the “urban graduate”. This brand represents a reinterpretation of understated luxury, sophistication, and the modern American lifestyle.

Tantris is a restaurant in Munich, Germany. Opened in 1971, it is regarded as one of the best restaurants in Germany. It was voted 44th best in the world in the Restaurant (magazine) Top 50 2009

Dinah Mohajer

Dineh Mohajer was born on September 2, 1972 and grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a wealthy suburb of Detroit. She has one older sister, Pooneh. Her parents, Reza and Shahnaz Mohajer, immigrated to the United States from Iran before Mohajer was born.

Dineh Mohajer founded Hard Candy Cosmetics, Inc., a line of cosmetics that targets teens and young adults. Starting the business with her sister and her boyfriend after receiving positive comments on a nail polish she had created to match a pair of sandals she wore shopping, Mohajer, just 22 years old at the time, suddenly found herself at the helm of a multi–million dollar business.

Born in Fujian, he moved with his family to the Philippines at age 12. While his family returned to China, he stayed behind and founded ShoeMart, a small Manila shoe store, in 1958. Over the decades he developed ShoeMart into SM Investments, one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines, including 49 SM malls in the Philippines and China, 62 department stores, 56 supermarkets and over 200 grocery stores.

SM Supermalls, owned by SM Prime, is a chain of shopping malls in the Philippines that as of January 2022 has 78 malls located across the country and 31 more scheduled to be opened for an eventual total of 109 malls.It also has 7 malls in China, including SM Tianjin which is the second largest in the world in terms of gross leasable area (GLA).

Tony Tan Caktiong is a Filipino billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of Jollibee Foods Corporation, and the co-chairman of DoubleDragon Properties

In 1975, Tony Tan Caktiong and his family opened a Magnolia ice cream parlor in Cubao, Quezon City. The outlet later began offering hot meals and sandwiches upon request from customers. When the food items became more popular than ice cream, the family decided to convert the ice cream parlor into a fast food restaurant which became the first Jollibee outlet in 1978.Management consultant Manuel C. Lumba advised the family on the change in strategy.Jollibee was initially named "Jolibe", but changed its name to "Jollibee"

Socorro C. Ramos is the matriarch of National Bookstore, the Philippines' leading retailer of books, office supplies, and greeting cards. In 1965, she and her husband Jose set up a nine-story building along Avenida Rizal which would be the very first National Bookstore. What has become the Ramos family business has not stopped growing since, having opened Powerbooks, a now popular specialty bookstore, in 1996.

The history of National Book Store can be traced back to the 1930s. However, the company has been formally established in 1942. Before the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, José Ramos and Socorro Cáncio-Ramos, rented a small-corner space of a Haberdashery situated at the foot of Escolta Bridge in Santa Cruz, Manila. With a starting capital of ₱211 (equivalent to ₱55,000 in 2019), the Ramoses set up their first retail bookstore selling GI novels, text books and supplies. During World War II, the store shifted to selling sold candies, soap, and slippers due to stringent book censorship. The store experienced success but was burned down during the 1945 Battle of Manila, rebuilt again and reverted to selling textbooks and stationery, the opening of the rebuilt National Book Store at the corner of Soler Street and Avenida Rizal, coincided with the first academic schoolyear after the war

John Robinson Lim Gokongwei Jr. was a Filipino businessman, investor, and philanthropist. His conglomerate company JG Summit Holdings, Inc. had an extensive panoply of business and investment holdings across the Filipino economy, including shipping, telecommunications, retail, financial services, petrochemicals, utilities, aviation, food, beverages, and livestock farming.

Cebu Pacific Air, Inc., operating as Cebu Pacific and stylized as cebu pacific, is a Philippine low-cost airline based on the grounds of Mactan–Cebu International Airport (Terminal 2), Lapu-Lapu City, Metro Cebu, Philippines. Founded in 1988, it is Asia's oldest low-cost airline. It offers scheduled flights to both domestic and international destinations. Its main hubs are Cebu and Manila, with focus cities at Cagayan de Oro,Clark, Davao, Kalibo, Iloilo, and Zamboanga.

Robinsons Malls is one of the largest shopping malls and retail operators in the Philippines. It was incorporated on September 9, 1997, by entrepreneur John Gokongwei Jr. to develop, conduct, operate and maintain the Robinsons commercial shopping centers and all related businesses, such as the lease of commercial spaces within the compound of shopping centers

The precursor to Universal Robina Corporation (URC) was founded on September 28, 1954 by John Gokongwei, Jr. Gokongwei decided to construct a corn milling plant to produce glucose and cornstarch, Universal Corn Products (UCP).
Later, to diversify by producing and marketing his own branded consumer foods, in 1961 Consolidated Food Corporation was established. Their first product was Blend 45, the first locally manufactured coffee blend, dubbed as the “Pinoy coffee”. This became the largest-selling coffee brand in the market, even beating market leaders Café Puro and Nescafé. After coffee, came Nips chocolate candies, a panned chocolate similar to M&M's, was a staple of Filipino childhood.

In December of 2000, the Japan-based convenience store chain Ministop made its way to the Philippines, being brought to the country by Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc. in partnership with Ministop Japan and Mitsubishi Corporation.

Edgar "Injap" Jaruda Sia II (born 1977) is a Filipino businessman. He is the chairman of DoubleDragon Properties (a joint business venture with Tony Tan Caktiong), and the founder of the Mang Inasal fast food restaurant chain.

Mang Inasal Philippines, Inc., also known as Mang Inasal, (Hiligaynon for "Mr. Barbecue") is a barbecue fast food restaurant chain in the Philippines, established in Iloilo City in 2003. The company was started by Edgar Sia, who owned his first business at the age of twenty Sia engaged in the food business at twenty-six years of age, opening the first Mang Inasal branch in December 2003 at the Robinsons Mall Carpark in Iloilo City. The restaurant was an instant success, despite stiff competition from other established grilled-food restaurants

Following WWII, Mariano Que discovered a commercial opportunity. Que, who had worked at a local drugstore before the war, opened his own drugstore when he noticed the demand for sulfa, a type of antibiotic used to treat bacterial illnesses.
He began selling good-quality sulfa for a low price. As a result, he was able to expand his clientele. In 1945, he founded the Mercury Drug chain of pharmacies.

Mercury Drug is a pharmacy chain in the Philippines.The company began on March 1, 1945[1] with a single drugstore owned by Mariano Que.He named it after Mercury, the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology, whose caduceus wand is sometimes used as a symbol of medicine, as well as the first planet in the Solar System. The logo of was designed by Alfredo Medinaceli Cabrera. The store began cutting packaged, bulk items into single pieces and selling them individually; this retail practice is colloquially called tingí-tingî in Filipino

Greenwich Pizza, also known as Greenwich, is a pizza and pasta chain in the Philippines. It was founded in 1971 by Cresida Tueres.The name "Greenwich" is in tribute to Tueres' first customers, which were students from the private school La Salle Green Hills that has green as its school color.[1] In 1994, Jollibee Foods Corporation acquired 80% of Greenwich shares.

Cecilio Kwok Pedro is an entrepreneur who made it to the top after his failure back in 1985. His principle is much grounded and to quote this man of humility, he once said, "We are competing against the giants. Without faith and without the intervention of the divine, it is really difficult to survive in this industry." The founder of Hapee toothpaste in the Philippines, making his company, Lamoiyan Corp., the country’s first homegrown toothpaste name

Unilever Philippines, Inc. is the Philippine subsidiary of British multinational company, Unilever. It is based in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig since 2016. It is a manufacturer of laundry detergents and soaps, shampoos and hair conditioners, toothpastes, deodorants, skin care products, household cleaners, and toilet soaps with an annual sales of over 40 billion pesos. It employs over 1,000 people nationally. It is the largest polluter in the Philippines

Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It specializes in the production, distribution and provision of household, health care, personal care and veterinary products

Aluminum Container’s Inc. was established. It was the biggest supplier of aluminum toothpaste tubes of the two major companies, Colgate-Palmolive and Philippine Refining Company. This company was in the business for eight years. His first company, Aluminum Container Inc., sold aluminum toothpaste tubes to these foreign firms from 1978 to 1985.

Alfredo M. Yao is a Filipino businessman who founded Zest-O,Macay Holdings, Inc. (PSE: MACAY) and Philippine Business Bank (PSE: PBB). He served as the Special Envoy to China for Tourism and Cooperation in 2009

Zest-O Corporation is a beverage company in the Philippines. It was founded in 1981 as SEMEXCO Marketing Corporation by businessman Alfredo M. Yao. While touring Europe in 1979, Yao learned about the Doypack packaging format in one of the European trade exhibits he visited. He bought one machine and tried to market the Doypack packaging format to juice drink manufacturers in the Philippines. When no company took interest, he decided to market his own brand of fruit juice drink. He put up a company called SEMEXCO Marketing Corporation and launched Zest-O orange juice drink in 1980

Gregorio G. Sanchez, Jr. is a civil engineer by profession formerly engaged in civil construction works. He served as a Provincial Board Member in Cebu City, where one of his concerns was the malnutrition among the pigs being raised. On his own, he went into research and performed experiments using only pots and pans and a small tank as his equipment. His persistence finally led to the development of a food supplement that would smother the bad bacteria in livestock, which he called “LactoPAFI Probiotic Bacteria.

Despite several setbacks, his perseverance paid off: he found out that the pigs were infected with dangerous bacteria. His solution was probiotic bacteria that would boost the body’s healthy bacteria count.
Sanchez eventually developed his discovery into LactoPAFI Probiotic Bacteria, which would go on to become a global probiotics leader with buyers in Japan, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Norway, Australia, France, and the United State

The charismatic Jose P. Magsaysay, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Potato Corner, was the featured speaker of the Harvard Business School Alumni Roundtable on October 14, 2020.
JoMag, as everyone fondly calls him, talked about his famous French fries company — Potato Corner — the challenges and successes of the company, his health, and strategic plans.

Potato Corner is a global Philippine food franchise known for its flavored French fries. Potato Corner's first stall opened up in SM Megamall in October 1992 in the Philippines under Cinco Corporation. As of 2021, Potato Corner is present in 15 countries globally which include the Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Panama, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kuwait, Myanmar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Canada

On May 15, 1966, Filipino-Chinese sisters, Milagros Leelin Yee and Clarita Leelin Go, and their sister-in-law Doris Wilson Leelin, opened the first Goldilocks store on a 70 m2 (750 sq ft) space on the ground floor of a three-story building along Pasong Tamo Street in Makati and started with only 10 employees.
In 1976, Goldilocks opened its first store in the United States in Los Angeles. In 1991, Goldilocks launched a franchising program which led to the opening of hundreds of Goldilocks' store in Metro Manila.

Goldilocks Bakeshop*is a bakery chain based in the Philippines, which produces and distributes Philippine cakes and pastries.