Portal:Business/On this day/September 1
September 1:
- 2008 - Thomas J. Bata, ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s until the '80s, died on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 2
September 2:
- 1936 - Andrew Grove, science pioneer in the semiconductor industry, later became CEO of Intel Corporation, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 3
September 3:
- 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, an automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 4
September 4:
- 1901 - Sir William Lyons, co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the Second World War, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 5
September 5:
- 1934 - Sidney Myer, best known for creating Myer, died on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 6
September 6:
- 1946 - United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 7
September 7:
- 2008 – The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 8
September 8:
- 1972 - Samuel McLaughlin, the McLaughlin Motor Car Co. in 1907, one of the first major automobile manufacturers in Canada, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 9
September 9:
- 1890 - Colonel Sanders, best known for founding Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), and later acting as the company's goodwill ambassador and symbol, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 10
September 10:
- 2007 - Anita Roddick, a British-born international businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, died on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 11
September 11:
- 1939 - Charles Geschke, best known as the 1982 co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., was born this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 12
September 12:
- 2013 - Ray Dolby, an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR and he founder of Dolby Laboratories, died on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 13
September 13:
- 1857 - Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founder of The Hershey Company, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 14
September 14:
- 1921 - A. Jean de Grandpré, a Canadian businessman, lawyer, and former president and chief executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 15
September 15:
- 1881 - Ettore Bugatti, the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 16
September 16:
- 1875 - James Cash Penney, an American businessman and entrepreneur who, in 1902, founded the J. C. Penney stores., was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 17
September 17:
- 1900 - J. Willard Marriott, the founder of the Marriott Corporation, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 18
September 18:
- 1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd., space tourist and provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 19
September 19:
- 1995 - Orville Redenbacher, founder of the Orville Redenbacher's Company, died on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 20
September 20:
- 1954 - Henry Samueli, co-founder, chairman of the board, and chief technology officer of Broadcom Corporation, owner of the Anaheim Ducks, a named inventor in 70 U.S. patents., was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 21
September 21:
- 1961 - Dan Borislow, founded Tel-Save, Inc. to resell access to AT&T long-distance lines in 1989, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 22
September 22:
- 1928 - Eric Broadley, founder and former chief designer of Lola Cars, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 23
September 23:
- 1861 - Robert Bosch, a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 24
September 24:
- 1883 - Franklin Clarence Mars, an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 25
September 25:
- 1964 - Joey Saputo, president of the Montreal Impact and Saputo Stadium, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 26
September 26:
- 1902 - Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founder of Levi Strauss & Co., was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 27
September 27:
- 1926 - Steve Stavro, Macedonian-Canadian businessman, grocery store magnate, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, sports team owner, and philanthropist, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 28
September 28:
- 1914 - Richard Warren Sears, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, died on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 29
September 29:
- 1899 - Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins, was born on this day.
Portal:Business/On this day/September 30
September 30:
- 1861 – William Wrigley Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company, was born on this day.