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In 2007, Safelite was acquired by Luxembourg based Belron, which is in turn owned by the D'Ieteren group, [3] Belron is the world's largest vehicle glass company, providing service in over 32 countries. Thomas Feeney became the president and CEO in 2008. [4]
Rotary Watches: 1895 La Chaux-de-Fonds: Moise Dreyfuss Elm Yard, 13-16 Elm Street, United Kingdom Privately held company: Dreyfuss Group Ltd. Sandoz (watch company) Tavannes: Henri Sandoz Schwarz Etienne: 1902 Paul Arthur Schwarz and Olga Etienne La Chaux-de-Fonds: Privately held company: Solvil et Titus: 1892 Paul Ditisheim: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Rotary Watches Ltd was established at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Moise Dreyfuss in 1895. By the 1920s family members Georges and Sylvain Dreyfuss began exporting Rotary watches to Britain, which was to become the company's most successful market. Rotary later became the official watch supplier for the British Army.
November 1917 ad for an Ingersoll "Radiolite" watch, one of the first watches mass marketed in the USA featuring a radium-illuminated dial. Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 [1] and was soon combined with paint to make luminescent paint, which was applied to clocks, airplane instruments, and the like, to be able to read them in the dark.
Elmore Helf died on September 16, 1968, in Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 76. According to an obituary published in ‘Stained Glass Quarterly’ he was remembered as “one of the oldest active members of the Stained Glass Association of America, his firm the Franklin Art Glass Studios having been members for over forty years.” [7]
Tiki, a 20-year-old blind cat from New England, was rescued by Good Samaritans after floating on a piece of ice on a Massachusetts lake and falling in on Dec. 16, 2024.