Manufacturing

EMC Corporation Corporate Office

EMC Corporation offers products and services that enable businesses to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.

EMC was founded by Richard Egan and Roger Marino in 1979. Its first product was memory boards for Prime Computer.

In the mid-1980’s the company branched out to computer data storage and networked storage platforms.

EMC’s flagship product, an enterprise storage array designed for large-scale, high technology environments, was named Symmetrix. The product was introduced in the 1990’s and was responsible for EMC’s explosive growth in size and value.

Today EMC’s offers data storage, analytics, cloud computing, virtualization, information security and other products and services to Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller businesses. These include government agencies, banks, and manufacturers.

EMC Corporation is publicly traded on the New York Stock exchange under the symbol EMC, is a member of the S&P 500, is #133 in the Fortune 500, has 63,900 employees, and had $23.31 billion in revenue in 2013.

EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation offers products and services that enable businesses to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.

EMC was founded by Richard Egan and Roger Marino in 1979. Its first product was memory boards for Prime Computer.

In the mid-1980’s the company branched out to computer data storage and networked storage platforms.

History

Briggs & Stratton Corporate Office

Briggs & Stratton designs and produces air-cooled gasoline engines for outdoor equipment.

Briggs & Stratton was founded in 1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a partnership between inventor Stephen Foster Briggs and entrepreneur Harold M. Stratton.

At first, the company manufactured automotive components and small gasoline engines.

Briggs & Stratton went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1928.

Today Briggs & Stratton designs, manufactures, markets, and services air-cooled gasoline engines which are used primarily in the lawn and garden industry.

The company also manufactures products such as portable and standby generators, snow throwers, pressure washers, and lawn and garden equipment.

In August 2018, the company announced that it was consolidating their 3 Milwaukee warehouses into one larger facility to streamline operations.

In September 2023, the company introduced a new lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery package comprising a battery, a 6 kW inverter and a control system.

Briggs & Stratton trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BGG, is a member of the S&P 600, is #926 in the Fortune 1000, has 5,200 employees, and had $1.786 billion in revenue in 2017.

Briggs & Stratton

Briggs & Stratton designs and produces air-cooled gasoline engines for outdoor equipment.

Briggs & Stratton was founded in 1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a partnership between inventor Stephen Foster Briggs and entrepreneur Harold M. Stratton.

History

At first, the company manufactured automotive components and small gasoline engines.

Briggs & Stratton went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1928.

Today Briggs & Stratton designs, manufactures, markets, and services air-cooled gasoline engines which are used primarily in the lawn and garden industry.

The company also manufactures products such as portable and standby generators, snow throwers, pressure washers, and lawn and garden equipment.

In August 2018, the company announced that it was consolidating their 3 Milwaukee warehouses into one larger facility to streamline operations.

In September 2023, the company introduced a new lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery package comprising a battery, a 6 kW inverter and a control system.

Smithfield Foods Corporate Office

Smithfield Foods is the largest hog producer and pork processor in the United States.

Smithfield Foods was founded by Joseph W. Luter and his son in 1936 as the Smithfield Packing Company in Virginia. The company grew by acquiring companies such as Farmland Foods of Kansas and Murphy Family Farms of North Carolina.

The company uses a vertical integration method of production that lets them control the entire line of production from conception to packing.

Smithfield Foods raises about 15 million pigs a year and processes 27 million animals, producing six billion pounds of pork per year.

The company’s products include fresh pork and processed products including deli meats and prepared foods. Products are marketed under the brand names Armour, Eckrich, Cook’s, Farmland, John Morrell, Patrick Cudahy, Gwaltney, and Healthy Ones.

In 2013 Smithfield Foods was acquired by China’s largest meat producer, Shuanghui International.

In April 2020, all meatpacking plants were closed for an undetermined period of time after at least 200 employees tested positive for the COVID-a9 virus.

Smithfield Foods

Smithfield Foods is the largest hog producer and pork processor in the United States.

History

The company uses a vertical integration method of production that lets them control the entire line of production from conception to packing.

Smithfield Foods raises about 15 million pigs a year and processes 27 million animals, producing six billion pounds of pork per year.

In 2013 Smithfield Foods was acquired by China’s largest meat producer, Shuanghui International.

In April 2020, all meatpacking plants were closed for an undetermined period of time after at least 200 employees tested positive for the COVID-a9 virus.

Medtronic Corporate Office

Medtronic is a leading manufacturer of implantable biomedical devices.

The company was founded in 1949 by Earl Bakken and Palmer Hermundslie as a medical equipment repair store.

Through their business the partners met Dr. C. Walton Lillehei. Dr. Lillehei was a heart surgeon and was frustrated with the pacemakers of the day. He asked Bakken to develop a battery-powered pacemaker.

Bakken did so, and the company improved upon the design through research, eventually designing the first implantable pacemaker in 1960.

Today Medtronic operates in segments: Cardiac and Vascular Group and Restorative Therapies Group. The first produces catheters, stents, valves, balloons, and surgical technologies used to treat vascular and cardiac diseases. The latter makes nerve and brain stimulation devices, implantable drug delivery systems, products used to manage diabetes, and surgical devices for ear, nose, and throat and spinal conditions.

Medtronic is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MDT, is a member of the S&P 500, is #172 in the Fortune 500, has 45,000 employees, and had $17 billion in revenue in 2013.

Medtronic

Medtronic is a leading manufacturer of implantable biomedical devices.

The company was founded in 1949 by Earl Bakken and Palmer Hermundslie as a medical equipment repair store.

History

Bakken did so, and the company improved upon the design through research, eventually designing the first implantable pacemaker in 1960.

Medtronic is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MDT, is a member of the S&P 500, is #172 in the Fortune 500, has 45,000 employees, and had $17 billion in revenue in 2013.

Freeport-McMoRan Corporate Office

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., commonly known as Freeport, is a world leader in production of gold and copper.

Freeport was founded in 1912 as Freeport Sulphur Company as a sulphur mining company.

In 1931 the company began to diversify into mangasese, a metal used to make stainless steel, nickel during World War II, and potash in the 1950’s.

In 1981 Freeport Minerals Company formed Freeport Gold Company to operate a new gold discovery in Nevada.

Freeport operates the world’s most profitable mine, The Grasberg mine in Indonesia. The company has faced criticism that the mine pollutes nearby rainforest and and the local river system.

Today Freeport is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FCX, is a member of the S&P 500, is #156 on the Fortune 500, has 36,100 employees, and had $13.23 billion in revenue in 2013.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., commonly known as Freeport, is a world leader in production of gold and copper.

Freeport was founded in 1912 as Freeport Sulphur Company as a sulphur mining company.

In 1931 the company began to diversify into mangasese, a metal used to make stainless steel, nickel during World War II, and potash in the 1950’s.

History

In 1981 Freeport Minerals Company formed Freeport Gold Company to operate a new gold discovery in Nevada.

Freeport operates the world’s most profitable mine, The Grasberg mine in Indonesia. The company has faced criticism that the mine pollutes nearby rainforest and and the local river system.