FMC Corporation
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FMC Corporation (nyse|FMC) is a chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. FMC employs over 5,000 people world wide, and had gross revenues of over US$2 billion in 2004.
Founded in 1883 as the Bean Spray Pump Company in San Jose, California by John Bean, the company's first product was a piston pump. Bean invented the pump to spray insecticide on the many fruit orchards in the area. In 1928, Bean Spray Pump purchased Anderson-Barngrover Co. and Sprague-Sells, and changed its name to Food Machinery Corporation, and began using the initials FMC. FMC received a contract to design and build tracked landing vehicles for the United States War Department in 1941.
FMC changed names again in 1946, becoming Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation and also manufactured fire fighting equipment in the 1960's through the 1980's under the FMC and the Bean names. In 1961 the name was changed to FMC Corporation. In the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, FMC Corporation began spinning several of its divisions into separate companies, including United Defense and FMC Technologies, and selling its divisions, including the John Bean Company, now a subsidiary of Snap-on.
The current United States Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne is a former public affairs manager of FMC Corporation.
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- This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "FMC Corporation".
- "FMC Corp"; Yahoo! Finance; retrieved January 28, 2006
- "www.FMC.com"; FMC Corporation; retrieved January 28, 2006
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