What Went Wrong With These 7 Most Admired Companies?


2. SmithKline Beckman

Smith, Kline & French was a pharmaceutical company, which is now part of GlaxoSmithKline. Back in 1983, pharmaceutical companies’ merging and transforming became the latest trend. SmithKline Beckman was one of the companies that would later get mushed with GlaxoSmithKline in 2000.

3. Rockwell International

Rockwell International is an American manufacturing company that produces and sells aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation. Ultimately it was an incarnation of series of companies that was founded by Willard Rockwell.

Rockwell International faced an extreme difficulty after Boeing, a cheapest aircraft company in the world, bought Rockwell’s Aerospace and Defense businesses in 1996. But in 2001, the two companies dissolved completely into one.

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