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DuPont Corporate Office

DuPont

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) was founded in 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthere Irenee du Pont two years after he arrived in the United States with his family. They had fled France to escape the French Revolution.

Du Pont started his gunpowder manufacturer because he noticed that the gunpowder industry in the United States was lagging behind Europe. By the mid-nineteenth century DuPont had become the largest supplier of gunpowder to the U.S. military. It supplied half of the gunpowder used by the Union Army in the American Civil War.

From 1902 to 1912 DuPont expanded into dynamite and smokeless powder. They became so powerful through the acquisition of several small chemical companies that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they must divest. This led to the creation of the Hercules Powder Company and the Atlas Powder Company.

History

In 1928 DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invented neoprene, the first synthetic rubber, and nylon in 1935. Teflon followed several years later.

In the 1950s and 1960s DuPont developed Mylar, Dacron, Orlon, Lycra, Tyvek, Nomex, Qiana, Corfam, and Corian.

They were instrumental in the testing and development of modern body armor, which led ultimately to the bullet-resistant vests worn by police and military in the industrialized world.

Today DuPont is a global science company with more than 70,000 employees. Their revenue for 2012 was $34.812 billion.

Abbott Laboratories Corporate Office

Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories was founded by Wallace C. Abbott in 1888 as the Abbott Alkaloidal Company. At the time he was 30 years old and an 1885 graduate of the University of Michigan who was a practicing doctor and owner of a drug store. His innovation was a tiny pill made of the active part of a medicinal plant that allowed for more effective and and consistent dosages for patients.

Abbott opened his first international office in 1931 in Canada.

In 1962 they entered into a joint partnership with Dainippon Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. of Osaka, Japan. The same year, they also expanded to Italy, England, and France.

History

In 1985 Abbott developed the first HIV blood-screening test.

In 2004 they spun off their hospital products division into the new company Hospira. The same year they acquired TheraSense, which merged with MediSense to become Abbott Diabetes Care.

In 2007 they acquired Advanced Medical Optics, which gave Abbott a Vision Eye Care division.

Today Abbott Laboratories is a global pharmaceuticals and health care products company with 90,000 employees in 130 countries. Their broad range of medical tests and diagnostic instruments are used worldwide by hospitals, physicians, blood banks, and laboratories. Their revenue for 2010 was $38.851 billion.

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Enterprise Products Partners Corporate Office

Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

Enterprise Products Partners was founded in 1968 as a wholesale marketer of natural gas liquids. They completed construction of their first pipelines in Mont Belvieu, Texas in 1972. In 1979 they completed a storage and pipeline complex on that site.

In 1980 Enterprise Products Partners acquired Wanda Petroleum Company from Dow Chemical.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s they expanded the Mont Belvieu facility, going from 13,000 barrels per day of capacity in 1981 to 210,000 barrels per day in 1996.

History

In 2000 they started operations at the Neptune Natural Gas Processing Plant in Louisiana. This plant had the capacity to process 300 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

In 2004 Enterprise Products Partners acquired GulfTerra which created one of the largest publicly traded energy partnerships with a value of $14 billion.

Today Enterprise Products Partners is a natural gas and crude oil pipeline company. They operate over 40,000 miles of pipeline both onshore and offshore through their different segments, operate 14 natural gas liquids fractionation plants, and operate 6 offshore hub platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Schlumberger Corporate Office

Schlumberger Limited

Schlumberger Limited was founded in 1926 by the French brothers Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger as the Electric Prospecting Company (Societe de Prospection Electrique). The company sold electrical measurement mapping services.

They expanded rapidly and in 1935 the Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation was founded in Houston, Texas. They later evolved into Schlumberger Well Services, and then Schlumberger Wireline and Testing.

In 1956, Schlumberger Limited was created as a holding company for all of the Schlumberger businesses, which included the American company, Johnson Testers.

History

The company continued to invest heavily in research, and in 1981 they established the first data links with email.

Schlumberger invested in numerous joint ventures throughout their history; notably Dowell Schlumberger with Dow Chemical in 1960, specializing in pumping services for the oil industry and M-I L.L.C. with Smith Internationalin 1999, the world’s largest drilling fluid company.

Today Schlumberger supplies the petroleum industry with seismic acquisition and processing, formation evaluation, well testing, directional drilling, well cementing and stimulation, artificial lift, flow assurance and consulting, software and information management, groundwater extraction, and carbon capture and storage.

Schlumberger has more than 120,000 employees and works in more than 85 countries worldwide. Their operating income for 2012 was $7.2 billion.

Lockheed Martin Corporate Office

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin was formed when Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta merged in 1996 in a $10 billion merger.

Both companies had important products in their portfolio that they brought to the deal. Lockheed’s portfolio included the Trident Missile, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor, and A-4AR Fightinghawk. Martin had Titan Rockets, Space Shuttle External Tank, Viking I and Viking II landers, and various satellite models.

Today Lockheed Martin is one of the world’s biggest defense contractors. About three-quarters of the company’s revenue comes from the Department of Defense and military contracts. Lockheed Martin receives 7% of funds paid out by the Pentagon. The company also works with some foreign governments.

History

Lockheed Martin is an aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company which operates through five business segments: Aeronautics, Information Systems and Global Solutions, Missile and Fire Control, Mission Systems and Training, and Space Systems.

Lockheed Martin trades on the NYSE under the symbol LMT, is part of the S&P 500, has 123,000 employees worldwide and had $46.499 billion in revenue in 2011.

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