Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World

Re:Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of ... by D_Alex on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @03:04AM (#4411490)

Rockefeller's Standard Oil was possibly even more valuable - at the time of it's anti-trust mandated breakup it produced around 90% of USA's oil. The companies it split into became Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Amoco, Conoco, Unilever (!) and a whole bunch of others.

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Re:Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of ... by maxerickson on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @07:22AM (#4412187)

I'm playing wiki-facts here, but Unilever bought one of the breakup companies in 1987. The Unilever conglomerate established itself very much without being part of Standard Oil.

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Re:Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of ... by D_Alex on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @03:59AM (#4416445)

I checked up and you are quite correct. Unilever bought Ponds which in turn grew out of a vaseline manufacturer previously owned by Standard Oil.

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