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Same Old Smithfield

In 2013 a senator asked the head of America's biggest pork company to come back in ten years and show that his promises had held. The filings are in. The address held and the union cards held. The farms and the payroll shrank. And the one box nobody promised anything about is the one that now puts Smithfield in front of the same federal review it once passed as a target. 이 글의 한국어판 → 본사는 남았고 농장은 줄었다 SMITHFIELD · SIX QUESTIONS THE AMERICAN SHELF BORN 1936 Smithfield, Virginia The Smithfield Packing Company founded by Joseph W. Luter and his son INCORPORATED Virginia Smithfield Foods, Inc. Commission file number 001-15321 the 2013 deal left it one HEAD OFFICE 200 Commerce Street Smithfield, Virginia 23430 on the cover of the 2013 merger filing and on the cover of the 2025 annual report SHAREHOLDERS approximately 87% WH Group, as of April 8, 2026 incorporated in the Cayman Islands and based in Hong Kong MADE thirty-eight processing plants in ...
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The Company Is Younger Than the Can

StarKist has been a name on American tuna since 1940. The corporation that pleaded guilty to fixing its price was formed in Delaware in 2008, and the first name on the board's consent to that plea was Mr. Jaechul Kim. 이 글의 한국어판 → 스타키스트의 유죄 인정, 이사회 동의서 첫 이름은 Mr. Jaechul Kim STARKIST · SIX QUESTIONS THE AMERICAN SHELF BORN 1917 Fish Harbor, Terminal Island, Los Angeles The French Sardine Company First use of STARKIST on April 30, 1940 INCORPORATED Delaware StarKist Co. was formed on June 19, 2008 The corporation named in the plea agreement HEAD OFFICE Reston, Virginia 1875 Explorer Street, 10th Floor Opened in April 2022 SHAREHOLDERS one Dongwon Industries Co., Ltd. Chairman Kim Nam-jung with 53.74 percent With other related parties, 78.96 percent MADE Pago Pago American Samoa, since 1963 “the single remaining cannery in American Samoa” (GAO, 2020) PAYCHECK $6.36 an hour StarKist Samoa Co., owned by StarKist Co. The federal ...
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The Nation's Innkeeper

A brewery from Burton-on-Trent owns the sign that stood over American highways, the trademark never left the United States, and the people behind the front desk work for neither of them. 이 글의 한국어판 → 여관 주인은 여관이 없다 HOLIDAY INN · SIX QUESTIONS, TWO THAT BREAK THE AMERICAN SHELF BORN 1952 4941 Summer Avenue, Memphis. 120 rooms. Demolished 1994. A funeral home now. INCORPORATED England & Wales Company 05134420. The line runs back to Bass Charrington Limited, 1967. HEAD OFFICE Windsor 1 Windsor Dials, Berkshire. The Americas office is in Atlanta. SHAREHOLDERS 8.07% Largest holder: PineStone, Montreal. North America, with ADRs: 49.5%. OWNED OR LEASED 17 of 7,109 4,191 rooms, 0.4% of the system. Holiday Inns among them: two. PAYCHECK 7,459 People whose pay IHG itself bears. About 400,000 work under its brands. “We do not employ colleagues in franchise hotels, nor do we control their day-to-day operations, policies or procedures....
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The Law Kept the Word

A federal regulation says nothing distilled outside the United States may be called bourbon, the company that sells more bourbon than anyone else was founded in Osaka in 1899, and the second fact does not break the first. 이 글의 한국어판 → 버번이라는 단어만 미국에 남았다 TWO BOURBONS · FIVE ANSWERS AND ONE BLANK THE AMERICAN SHELF BORN 1795 Jacob Beam’s first jug of whiskey. Maker’s Mark at Loretto, 1952 or 1953. INCORPORATED Delaware One corporation, file number 1-9076. The name has changed four times. HEAD OFFICE Madison Avenue New York, since 2022. The parent, in Osaka since 1899, is not listed. SHAREHOLDERS Not disclosed No table anywhere. Eight directors, three from the founding families. DISTILLERIES Kentucky Clermont and Loretto, and nowhere else in America. THE PAYCHECK U.S. companies New York, Chicago and Loretto. The Loretto one is a benefit corporation. “It has been over 125 years since my great-grandfather, Shinjiro Torii...
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