The Guinness Book of Business Records

by TomCannon (Author), KarenSmith (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.28

  Which were the first businesses, and which are the biggest? Which companies are the biggest employers, and which have suffered the longest strikes? This book explores the international business world and records the entrepreneurs and their enterprises, the fortunes won and lost, the most ambitious schemes and scams, the robber barons and philanthropic princes, the most successful inventions and the inventors who have not always benefited from their successes. The book includes facts, stories, statistics, charts, personalities and histories.