Companies established in 1945

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 79. Chapters: Cantor Fitzgerald, Mattel, Avro Canada, Aprilia, Tata Motors, PUTCO, Sonic Drive-In, Minute Maid, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, MV Agusta, Mahindra Group, CHUM Limited, Rotork, Grupo Bimbo, Ramboll, Baskin-Robbins, U-Haul, AVM Productions, Bajaj Auto, Brioni, Techint, Toyo Tire & Rubber Company, Liberty Films, Jonathan Woodner Company, Saskatchewan Government Insurance, Rich Products, Wellcome, Stewart's Shops, 3i, Constellation Brands, Ashley Furniture Industries, Congressional Quarterly, Walter E. Smithe, Wipro Technologies, Grundig, Sennheiser, Max's of Manila, Grundfos, KEC International, Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises, Grant-Hadley Enterprises, Essar Shipping, Schreiber Foods, British Insulated Callender's Cables, Sub-Zero Refrigerator, Ballarpur Industries Limited, London Drugs, Ertl Company, Tennessee Farmers Cooperative, Hanjin, Hills Industries, Premera Blue Cross, United Hardware Distributing Company, Remploy, Bantam Books, Céline, Bristol Virginia Utilities, DDOR Novi Sad, Faema, Rivarossi, Bancolombia, Harmons, Petrol Group, Mutual of America, Sun Chemical, Washington Steel Corporation, Do It Best, Kobunsha, Greenfords Limited, Przedsiebiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej, Fisher Electronics, SPC Corporation, Mochida Pharmaceutical, Shonen Gahosha, The Customart Press, Konstruktor, Mostostal, Samlip, Western India Plywoods Ltd., Mivar. Excerpt: Commonly known as Avro Canada, this company started in 1945 as an aircraft plant and became within thirteen years the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000. It is best known as a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, in particular for the highly advanced CF-105 Arrow, but through growth and acquisition it rapidly become a major, integrated company with diverse holdings. During the Second World War, Victory Aircraft in Malton, Ontario was Canada's largest aircraft manufacturer. Prior to 1939, as a part of National Steel Car Ltd. of Montreal, the concern had been one of a number of shadow factories set up in Canada to produce British aircraft designs in safety. National Steel Car had turned out Avro Anson trainers, Handley Page Hampden bombers, Hawker Hurricane fighters and Westland Lysander army cooperation aircraft. National Steel Car Corporation of Malton, Ontario was formed in 1938 and renamed Victory Aircraft Limited in 1942 when the Canadian government took over ownership and management of main plant. During the Second World War, Victory Aircraft built Avro (UK) aircraft: 3,197 Anson trainers, 430 Lancaster bombers, six Lancastrian, one Lincoln bomber and one York transport. In 1944, an Advisory Committee on Aircraft Manufacture was established by the Canadian government, the Canadian Director of Aircraft Production wrote to Minister of Munitions and Supply C.D. Howe in 1944 to express the "utmost importance to Canada" of the establishment of a Canadian aircraft industry, and UK-based Avro also established in 1944 a company searching for post-war opportunities. Bob Leckie of the RCAF was a strong advocate for years for an industry to design and build aircraft in Canada yet the Department of National Defense, according to Avro's Roy Dobson, gave "a cold reception" to doing more than building under license. Howe, as Minister of Reconstruction and Minister of Munitions and Supply (later