America's 10 Most Durable Brands And Their Logos

Daily Finance:

They're the brands you can't help but know, with logos that nearly everyone will recognize. They're companies founded back in the 1800s that became the major players in providing the products and services of the next century -- and the one after that. Names like AT&T and JP Morgan, Coca-Cola and John Deere. And while their logos have changed over time, the changes have been evolutionary, not revolutionary. Companies with this kind of brand recognition don't tamper with it lightly.

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[April22]

09:22 PM on 02/23/2011

And then there is John Deere & Co., who last December announced they were building a new factory in China, and the facility would represent an investment of about $50 million.

In 1998, John Deere & Co. closed a plant close to Gastonia N. C. and 700 people lost jobs.

In September of 2009 they pumped $125 million into a Moscow region for a new plant, and in April of 2010, they announced a plan to invest $500 million in Russia.

In June 2009, John Deere laid off 494 workers at an Iowa plant. This is what the company had to say:

"Deere & Co. said that it will temporarily lay off most of the production workers at an Iowa plant because of weak demand for its products amid the global economic crisis."

http://layofftracker.blogspot.com/2009/06/john-deere-layoffs-494-workers-at-iowa.html

In March of 2010, more than half of 1700 workers at a John Deere plant in So. Brazil went on strike over pay demands. John Deere has 3 plants in Brazil.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/15/deere-brazil-strike-idUSN1521266920100315

[born 2b different]

09:18 AM on 02/24/2011

They are building the plants where the demand is. Like when Toyota builds a plant here.

[April22]

08:53 PM on 02/23/2011

Speaking of J.P. Morgan and history:

"Mass concentration of wealth through acquisitions, such as one with J.P. Morgan to form the United States Steel Company in 1901, and the unbridled power of investment banking firms, led labor unrest to the doorstep of a population of one percent owning more national wealth than the other 99 percent."

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1678.html

Ah, history has a way of repeating itself, don't you think?

[Steve1976]

06:48 PM on 02/23/2011

Who could forget her first Winchester?

[samuel liu]

05:37 PM on 02/23/2011

how much did lenovo pay to get that photo

[turrt173]

04:44 PM on 02/23/2011

"Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves "

I'm tryin , but I can't see a toyota or Saub workin in the lyrics...

[johuyik]

04:01 PM on 02/23/2011

One of my most favorite memories is sitting on my Grandpa's lap while he let me steer the tractor, a John Deere.