by Gary Hoover | Sep 18, 2020 | Articles, Business in General, Data, Newsletters
Fifty-seven years ago, meatpacking giant Swift was the 15th largest public company in the world. Today that 15th spot is held by American health insurer UnitedHealth. Apple sits in the 12th position formerly held by Texaco, now part of Chevron. ...
by Gary Hoover | Aug 20, 2020 | Articles, Business in General, Data
On Market Capitalization as a Measure of Size or Success Your history reporter has been studying big business for fifty-seven years (I started subscribing to Fortune magazine in 1963, when I was twelve years old). Over the decades, we have witnessed many...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 30, 2020 | Business in General, Data, Newsletters
This week we present another of our animated charts based on Fortune magazine’s annual lists of the 500 largest US public companies (based on revenues). This time, our focus is on the companies which made the highest dollar profits, from 1994 through 2019. You...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 16, 2020 | Articles, Business in General, Data
This week we present another of our animated charts based on Fortune magazine’s annual lists of the 500 largest US public companies (based on revenues). This time, our focus is on the largest employers among these big companies, from 1994 through 2019. You...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 2, 2020 | Articles, Business in General, Data, Newsletters
“Last week we brought you an unprecedented animated chart of the Fortune 500 list since 1994. Here we go back another 40 years, when steel companies and meatpackers were still giants. Taken together, you can learn a lot from 65 years of history.” Last...
by Gary Hoover | Jun 25, 2020 | Articles, Business in General, Data, Newsletters
The saga of American business in one chart! The fall of Enron, the rise of Apple and Amazon, the enduring legacy of John Rockefeller in Exxon and Chevron – see the years fly by! Below the two charts is more information about the history and quirks of...
by Gary Hoover | Nov 14, 2019 | Articles, Business in General, Data, Data, Demography and Geography
Two weeks ago, we presented an animated chart showing the most popular American cities – the metropolitan areas which received the most domestic migrants in each year from 2010 through 2018. This week, we created an animated chart showing “the...
by Gary Hoover | Sep 4, 2019 | Business in General, Data
by Gary Hoover | Aug 15, 2019 | Articles, Data, Data, Demography and Geography, Newsletters
This week, we present more of our animated “bar race charts” made with Flourish.studio, in which you can see how change takes place over time. We have produced two versions, one for close study that takes five minutes and a very fast one that you can watch in...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 11, 2019 | Articles, Articles, Business in General, Data, Data, Demography and Geography
History lovers, Today we present something a little different….an animated chart showing the rise and fall of American cities. If you play (or replay) the graphic linked here, you will see the rise and fall of the thirty most populous metropolitan areas in the...