[h1]The Corporations of Capital Markets[/h1]
Every Great Merchant is a historical founder, and the Corporation they found is the company that made their name. A merchant's era decides when they can appear, so the companies below always belong to their time. 83 Corporations ship today, from the Medici Bank of 1397 to SpaceX.

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[h1]Renaissance Era (17)[/h1]
[b]Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici[/b] - Medici Bank
[b]Jakob Fugger[/b] - Fuggerei
[b]Sir Thomas Smythe[/b] - East India Company
[b]Johan van Oldenbarnevelt[/b] - Dutch East India Company
[b]Jean-Baptiste Colbert[/b] - Compagnie des Indes Orientales
[b]Pierre-Esprit Radisson[/b] - Hudson's Bay Company
[b]Mitsui Takatoshi[/b] - Mitsui
[b]Edward Lloyd[/b] - Lloyd's of London
[b]Sir John Houblon[/b] - Bank of England
[b]Archibald Campbell[/b] - Royal Bank of Scotland
[b]Francis Baring[/b] - Barings Bank
[b]Aaron Burr[/b] - JP Morgan Chase
[b]Samuel Osgood[/b] - CitiBank
[b]John Edward Taylor[/b] - The Guardian
[b]Charles Henry Harrod[/b] - Harrods
[b]Thierry Hermès[/b] - Hermès
[b]William Procter and James Gamble[/b] - Procter &amp; Gamble

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[h1]Industrial Era (26)[/h1]
[b]Werner von Siemens[/b] - Siemens
[b]John Boot[/b] - Boots
[b]Charles Pfizer[/b] - Pfizer
[b]Henry Jarvis Raymond[/b] - The New York Times
[b]Levi Strauss[/b] - Levi Strauss &amp; Co.
[b]Louis Vuitton[/b] - Louis Vuitton
[b]Rowland Hussey Macy[/b] - Macy's
[b]Friedrich Bayer[/b] - Bayer
[b]Henri Nestlé[/b] - Nestlé
[b]Marcus Goldman[/b] - Goldman Sachs
[b]John D. Rockefeller[/b] - Standard Oil
[b]Alexander Graham Bell[/b] - AT&amp;T
[b]Robert Wood Johnson[/b] - Johnson &amp; Johnson
[b]Fusajiro Yamauchi[/b] - Nintendo
[b]George Merck[/b] - Merck &amp; Co.
[b]Andrew Carnegie[/b] - Carnegie Steel Company
[b]Asa Candler[/b] - Coca-Cola
[b]Thomas Edison and Charles Coffin[/b] - General Electric
[b]Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche[/b] - Roche
[b]Donald Kendall and Herman Lay[/b] - PepsiCo
[b]Giovanni Agnelli[/b] - Fiat
[b]Charles R. Walgreen[/b] - Walgreens
[b]Henry Ford[/b] - Ford Motor Company
[b]Hans Wilsdorf[/b] - Rolex
[b]Alfred Nehemias and August Eberstein[/b] - Montblanc
[b]Jamsetji Tata[/b] - Tata Steel

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[h1]Modern Era (11)[/h1]
[b]Charles Ranlett Flint[/b] - IBM
[b]Konosuke Matsushita[/b] - Panasonic
[b]Guccio Gucci[/b] - Gucci
[b]John Reith[/b] - BBC
[b]Walt Disney[/b] - Disney
[b]Marcus Loew[/b] - MGM Studios
[b]Colonel Sanders[/b] - KFC
[b]Ferdinand Porsche[/b] - Porsche
[b]Lee Byung-chul[/b] - Samsung
[b]Richard and Maurice McDonald[/b] - McDonald's
[b]Ingvar Kamprad[/b] - IKEA

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[h1]Atomic Era (23)[/h1]
[b]Akio Morita[/b] - Sony
[b]Chung Ju-yung[/b] - Hyundai
[b]Erling Persson[/b] - H&amp;M
[b]Soichiro Honda[/b] - Honda
[b]James McLamore[/b] - Burger King
[b]Phil Knight[/b] - Nike
[b]Dhirubhai Ambani[/b] - Reliance Industries
[b]Gordon Moore[/b] - Intel
[b]Roger Béteille[/b] - Airbus
[b]Frederick W. Smith[/b] - FedEx
[b]Howard Schultz[/b] - Starbucks
[b]Jean-François Dehecq[/b] - Sanofi
[b]Bill Gates[/b] - Microsoft
[b]Amancio Ortega[/b] - Zara
[b]Steve Jobs[/b] - Apple
[b]Ted Turner[/b] - CNN
[b]Masayoshi Son[/b] - SoftBank
[b]Michael Bloomberg[/b] - Bloomberg LP
[b]John Warnock[/b] - Adobe
[b]Zhang Ruimin[/b] - Haier
[b]Liu Chuanzhi[/b] - Lenovo
[b]Ren Zhengfei[/b] - Huawei
[b]Dietrich Mateschitz[/b] - Red Bull

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[h1]Information Era (6)[/h1]
[b]Jeff Bezos[/b] - Amazon
[b]Reed Hastings[/b] - Netflix
[b]Larry Page[/b] - Google
[b]Pony Ma[/b] - Tencent
[b]Jack Ma[/b] - Alibaba
[b]Elon Musk[/b] - SpaceX
