Corporation Facts Generator

• [Corporation fact 1] Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, circumvented her own rule disallowing employees to work from home by bringing her home to work--and building a nursery by her office.

  Corporation, Peoplesource

• [Corporation fact 2] Pharmaceutical companies are using a loophole to patent certain drugs that have been used for decades to treat certain diseases effectively, but those drugs were never actually FDA-approved for that particular disease. The most controversial case in point is the drug colchicine, which has been used for decades to help people with flares of a painful and disabling condition called gout. A drug company did a simple and inexpensive study recently that showed statistical significance that colchicine helps people with acute gout flares, something all prescribers have known (again, for decades). They went ahead and got FDA approval and now have the rights to re-brand it. Colchicine is now ONLY available under the trade name Colcrys and sells for about $5 per pill. When it was produced generically it only cost a few pennies per pill.

  Corporation, Drugssource

• [Corporation fact 3] Sony is primarily an insurance company in Japan and electronics are not their main source of income.

  Corporation, Financesource

• [Corporation fact 4] Arthur Guinness was an exceptional individual who used the money he made from brewing to help relief of the poor, abolish dueling, promote literacy, and provided his workers with a higher standard of living.

  Corporation, Peoplesource

• [Corporation fact 5] Bebo founders Michael and Xochi Birch sold the company to AOL in 2008 for $850 million. They then bought it back in 2013 for $1 million.

  Corporation, Peoplesource

• [Corporation fact 6] A man named Aktarer Zaman was once sued by United Airlines for making a site which helps people find cheaper flight tickets

  Corporation, People, Transportsource

• [Corporation fact 7] Fredric Baur, the founder of Pringles is buried inside of a Pringles can.

  Corporation, Death, Peoplesource

• [Corporation fact 8] Sega created a character named Segata Sanshiro to promote the Sega Saturn in the late 90s, an over-the-top martial artist who performed insane antics while yelling at people to play Sega Saturn. His last commercial had him protecting Sega headquarters from a missile attack and riding it into space.

  Corporation, Marketingsource

• [Corporation fact 9] Google Images was created in response to Jennifer Lopez wearing a Versace dress to the Grammy's in 2000, which subsequently resulted in Google’s “most popular search query” they had seen to date: “Jennifer Lopez’s green dress.”

  Corporation, Honor, People, Technologysource

• [Corporation fact 10] McDonald's is basically a real estate company: "We are in the real estate business. The only reason we sell hamburgers is because they are the greatest producer of revenue from which our tenants can pay us rent." - Harry J. Sonneborne, McDonald's founder.

  Corporation, Foodsource

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