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71Joe S. Bain — (July, 4, 1912, Spokane, Washington, USA September 7, 1991, Columbus, Ohio) was an American economist, and can be seen as one of the founders of industrial economics. He identified and quantified ‘barriers to entry’ into imperfectly competitive… …
72cartel — An association of independent companies formed to regulate the price and sales conditions of the products or services they offer. A cartel may be national or international, although some countries, including the UK and the USA, have legislation… …
73Farmer Jack — Infobox Defunct Company company name = Farmer Jack company type = Supermarket slogan = It s Always Savings Time at Farmer Jack. fate = Acquisition by A P, then liquidation successor = Kroger, independent grocers foundation = 1924 defunct = July 7 …
74Thomson Holidays — is a UK based travel operator and part of TUI Travel PLC. The company (originally named Thomson Tour Operations, and renamed in 1997) was founded as part of the Thomson Travel Group in 1965 following the acquisition of three package holiday… …
75Ephraim Downs — (1787 1860) was an early America wooden movement clockmaker. In business from 1810 through 1842, he worked with Eli Terry, Silas Hoadley, and Seth Thomas in the early Connecticut clock trade.During the 1830s, Ephraim supplied nearly seven… …
76Albert Gubay — (born 1928) is a Welsh multi millionaire, presently based in Santon, Isle of Man.Gubay made his fortune in retailing with Kwik Save, but built it further on investments, mainly in property development. According to Forbes, in 2006 he had an… …
77National brand — The brand name of a product that is distributed nationally under a brand name owned by the producer or distributor, as opposed to local brands (products distributed only in some areas of the country), and private label brands (products that carry …
78fair trade law — In the U.S., any law allowing manufacturers of brand name or trademarked goods to fix the actual or minimum resale prices of these goods. (Elsewhere the practice is called price maintenance.) Fair trade laws were passed by many states during the… …
79Industrialization — The hallmark of the Industrial Revolution was the mechanization of labor in factory production. The process in the Austrian lands of the Habsburg Empire began with textiles: silk weaving facilities opened in Vienna in 1619 and in Walpersdorf… …
80SELIGMAN, EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON — (1861–1939), U.S. economist. A member of the seligman banking family of New York, Seligman began teaching at Columbia in 1885 and held the post of professor of political economy and finance from 1888 to 1931, when he became professor emeritus in… …
