On March 21, 2021, the Canadian Pacific Railroad announced that it was buying the Kansas City Southern Railroad for $25 billion. To understand the strategic and geographic implications of this very important business deal, we must first go back in time. The acquisition will reduce the number of big “class 1” North American railroads from […]| Business History - The American Business History Center
In the paragraphs below, we take a visual tour of the evolution of the largest American companies over the past thirty years. We’ve posted updates of our annual charts of America’s biggest companies from the recently published Fortune 500. The first chart shows the 25 US public companies with the largest annual revenues (sales) from 1994 […]| Business History - The American Business History Center