From McDonald's to Visa, famous companies founded the year you were born
lovemoney staff
14 February 2020
Firms with impressive staying power
Courtesy AHC
1945: Minute Maid
Courtesy Minute Maid/Coca-Cola
1946: Sony
Courtesy Sony Corporation
1947: H&M
Courtesy Visit Västerås
1948: ManpowerGroup
Courtesy ManpowerGroup
1949: 20th Century Fox Television
Courtesy 20th Century Fox Television
1950: Diner's Club
Courtesy Diner's Club
1951: Texas Instruments
Courtesy Texas Instruments
1952: Eastpak
Courtesy Terrapeak
1953: Epic Records
Courtesy Epic Records
1954: Burger King
Courtesy Burger King
1955: McDonald's
Courtesy AHC
1956: Tefal
Courtesy Tefal via YouTube
1957: McCain Foods
Courtesy McCain Foods
1958: Visa
Courtesy Visa advertising archive
1959: Ellesse
Courtesy Ellesse
1960: Domino's Pizza
Courtesy Domino's Pizza
1961: Luxottica
Courtesy Luxottica
1962: Walmart
Courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
1963: Comcast
Courtesy Comcast
1964: Nike
Courtesy Nike
1965: Dolby Laboratories
Courtesy Dolby Laboratories
1966: MasterCard
Bradley Gordon/Flickr CC
1967: Southwest Airlines
Courtesy Southwest Airlines
1968: Intel
Intel/Wikimedia Commons
1969: The Gap
Courtesy The Gap
1970: Urban Outfitters
Courtesy URBN
1971: Starbucks
Courtesy Starbucks
1972: Atari
Courtesy Atari
1973: Patagonia
Courtesy Patagonia
1974: Zara
Courtesy Inditex
1975: Microsoft
Microsoft/Wikimedia Commons
1976: Apple
Courtesy Apple
1977: Victoria's Secret
Courtesy Victoria's Secret
1978: Versace
Peer Grimm/PA
1979: Activision
Courtesy Activision
1980: Whole Foods Market
Courtesy Whole Food Market
1981: Bloomberg
Bloomberg/AP
1982: Adobe Systems
Courtesy Adobe
1983: AOL
Courtesy AOL
1984: Dell
Courtesy Dell
1985: Blackstone
Courtesy Blackstone
1986: Five Guys
Courtesy Five Guys
1987: Huawei
Courtesy Huawei
1988: SanDisk
SanDisk/Wikimedia Commons
1989: Garmin
Courtesy Garmin
1990: Time Warner
Katherine Welles/Shutterstock
1991: Vodafone
Courtesy Vodafone
1992: NetApp
Courtesy NetApp
1993: Nvidia
Daniel Chetron/Shutterstock
1994: Amazon
Courtesy Amazon
1995: eBay
Courtesy eBay
1996: Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet/Wikimedia Commons
1997: Netflix
Courtesy Neflix
1998: Google
Courtesy Alphabet
1999: Alibaba
Courtesy Alibaba
2000: Baidu
Stephan Scheuer/PA
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