CoolFacts--Business
- A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
- IBM's motto is "Think."
- It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
- NERF, the popular foam children's toy company, doesn't actually stand for anything.
- Nestl� is the largest company in Switzerland, yet more than 98 percent of its revenue comes from outside the country.
- Organized crime counts for 10% of the United States' income.
- The A & P was the first chain-store business to be established. It began in 1842.
- The average bank teller loses $250 a year.
- The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
- The most dangerous job in the United States is that of Sanitation Worker. Firemen and Policeman are a close second and third, followed by Leather Tanners in fourth.
- The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die.' These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
- Workers at Matsushita Electric Company, in Japan, beat dummies of their foremans with bamboo sticks to let off steam. The company at this time enjoyed 30 percent growth for 25 consecutive years.
- Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
