29. In late 1945, after the end of World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a
bomb-damaged department store building in Nihonbashi of Tokyo.
In 1938, Lee Byung-chull (1910–1987) of the large landowning family in the Uiryeong
county came to the nearby Daegu city and founded Samsung Sanghoe (삼성상회),
a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong).
It dealt in green-grocery and dried fish produced in and around the city, and the noodles,
Byeolpyo Guksu produced itself.
They gained the mechanical skills essential for their success by working for years in their shop
with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and other machinery.
When he was 16 years old, he moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked with A. Besse & Co. for
a salary of Rs.300 (Present Day $6.49). Two years later, A. Besse & Co. became the
distributors for Shell products, and Dhirubhai was promoted to manage the
company’s filling station at the port of Aden.
Procter & Gamble was founded in 1837 by William Procter, a British citizen who
emigrated to the United States, and James Gamble, a U.S.-based Irish soapmaker .
The company first sold candles
