Company Histories and Competitiveness: Websites

(Alibaba) Timeline traces company history since its founding in 1999 to present. See more about Alibaba in About Us area of website.

(Interesting Engineering) You are probably on this page because of Google. From 1995 to Global Domination, here is the untold story of the Tech Giant.

Search over 7000 company histories by name, by industry, or browse alphabetically. Sources include International Directory of Company Histories, and often further reading is suggested.

(Costco Wholesale) Timeline of the development of Costco. Other links on this page include a Costco Business overview and Costco in Australia.

(Google) The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.

(The Coca-Cola Company) Since its birth at a soda fountain in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, in 1886, Coca‑Cola has been a catalyst for social interaction and inspired innovation.

(Business Insider) Here's a look into the history of Apple in photos, from its inception, through its hard times, to the triumphant return of Jobs.

(Target) The Target we know and love was born in the 1960s.

(Wyoming Historical Society) The JC Penney Company, long among the world’s largest department store chains, traces its roots to a one-room shop in a small Wyoming coal-mining town.

(Insider) When Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, as a website that only sold books, founder Jeff Bezos had a vision for the company's explosive growth and ecommerce domination.
He knew from the very beginning that he wanted Amazon to be "an everything store."

(EBSCO Research Starters) In 1976, Price Club, a warehouse retail club, was founded and became successful based on its household membership model. In 1983, Jeff Brotman and Jim Sinegal created Costco as a competitor to Price Club. These two companies would ultimately merge in 1993.

(Los Angeles Times) As consumers increasing rely on the Seattle-based e-commerce giant, it’s hard to remember a time when Amazon sold only one product: books.