Erik Buell was a motorcycle racer and engineer at Harley Davidson. He raced motorcycles, which meant that racing a Harley wasn’t feasible. But racing a Japanese bike in that environment…

Cigarette company that has survived for over 100 years. It holds the record for highest market return over 100 years.

Historic car company that quietely disappeared

because mingcraft

This one is an interesting story as it was actually the first major airline to go bankrupt in the post-deregulation era in 1982. It would be resurrected two more times…

Luxottica has a virtual monopoly over the eyewear industry and controls various brands as well as stores, so a video about them may be interesting.

A Japanese telecoms company that has become a major investor in a surprising amount of Silicon Valley (and other) tech.

They are huge stores, in that each store is huge and really cool with animals, fish and restaurants. What I didnt know is that they are the same company. I…

Because I would like to see how they got into the tea buisness

A failed merger between the Pennsylvania Railroad & New York Central Railway in 1968, which filed for bankruptcy in 1976