Johns-Manville, based in Denver and a leader in the building materials business, traces its roots back to 1858.
Audio: Watts and Sound Mr. Kairoff, who has also worked for years in the audio business, traces specsmanship back to advertisements for the wattage of stereo amplifiers.
After a stint as a lowly clerk in a solicitors' office, I started my own business tracing debtors and serving court process papers.
The business traces its roots to Jacob Saperstein, who soon after arriving in the United States from Poland in 1905, began buying post cards from German manufacturers and selling them to local merchants in Cleveland.
Con Edison's electric business traces its roots back to Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Illuminating Company, the first investor-owned electric utility.
Though it's moved to different locations in the Theater District over the years, the business traces its history to 1917 and has been owned by the same family since 1958.
Although the family's businesses trace their roots to 1961, it was only in the last several years that Law's father invested in department stores, after picking up the hotel in Hong Kong.
You can also use your Kindle to check emails, keep up with business, and trace the sports results.
Veteran business journalists trace some of the difficulty to the dot-com boom, when tech companies convinced analysts and journalists that plain old net income, the standard measure of profit, wasn't as important as the clever new metrics they were introducing.
