Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 78. Chapters: Chrysler, IG Farben, Hostess, Caterpillar Inc., Union Labor Life Insurance Company, Pacific Northwest Wrestling, Winn-Dixie, Howard Johnson's, Shueisha, Luxman, Random House, Florida Power & Light, Temple-Inland, Sikorsky Aircraft, Allegheny Energy, Hygena, Erie Plating Company, Power Corporation of Canada, Carrosserie Pourtout, Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hulse, Playfair & McGarry, Smith Field, Tauck, Nettbuss, Palmer and Harvey, Benj. Franklin Savings and Loan, Acuity Insurance, Le Creuset, Raymond Group, Country Financial, Tomkins plc, Ford Germany, The Omnibus Corporation, Firth Concrete, Raymond Ltd, Industria Aeronautica Româna, Sachs Electric, Moretti Motor Company, Wincanton plc, Erie Insurance Group, Bühler Motor, One workplace, PCCW-HKT Telephone, Croda International, West Coast Bancorp, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Viking Press, India Security Press, Swingline, National Automotive Parts Association, Lillywhites, Buhl Aircraft Company, Green Bus Lines, Pure Spring Company, Deutsche Werke, Hygenic Corporation, Chrysler Financial, Continental Type Founders Association, Coon Chicken Inn, JJ Longstaff and Sons, Miller & Yeager, Pick 'n Pay Grocery Store, Automotive News, Arclinea, OMAS, AT&T Laboratories, Pierre & Wright, Edo Aircraft Corporation, General Casualty Insurance, Københavns Lufthavne, Confiserie Roodthooft, Alford & Alder, Hay Automobiltechnik, KP Namboodiris, Festool, Halyvourgiki S.A., T. G. Lee Dairy, Hi-School Pharmacy, Toh Allang Chinese Tin Ltd., Kraftwerke Oberhasli, Jeecy-Vea. Excerpt: Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), also known as "CAT", designs, manufactures, markets and sells machinery and engines and sells financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network. Caterpillar is the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. With more than US$7 billion in assets, Caterpillar was ranked number one in its industry and number 44 overall in the 2009 Fortune 500. Caterpillar stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Caterpillar Inc. traces its origins to the 1925 merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C. L. Best Tractor Company, creating a new entity, the California based Caterpillar Tractor Company. In 1986, the company re-organized itself as a Delaware corporation under the current name, Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar's headquarters are located in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Caterpillar machinery is recognizable by its trademark "Caterpillar Yellow" livery and the "CAT" logo. Two Holt 45 gas crawler tractors team up to pull a long wagon train in the Mojave Desert during construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1909 Caterpillar D2 on display in the Serpentine Vintage Tractor Museum, Serpentine, Western AustraliaIn the late 1890s and early 1900s, competitors Daniel Best and Benjamin Holt individually experimented with ways to improve the traction of steam tractors used in farming California's Central Valley. The steam tractors were extremely heavy, sometimes weighing 1,000 pounds (450 kg) per horsepower, and often sank into the rich, soft earth of the San Joaquin Valley Delta farmland surrounding Stockton, California. Holt attempted to fix the problem by increasing the size and width of the wheels up to 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide, producing a tractor 46 feet (14 m) wide. But this also made the tractors increasingl...