Wedgwood

Description:

Wedgwood has been one of the most recognizable brand names in the world for more than two hundred years--the epitome of quality and luxury--and is also the Enlightenment's most remarkable success story. Born into a poor family of potters, Josiah Wedgwood amassed a fortune that would today make him a billionaire, and created a multinational corporate empire. He combined rationality with bold experimentation, revolutionizing the business model of his time with a series of innovations: organizing skilled labor in one of the world's earliest factories; encouraging employee loyalty by offering long-term contracts that included health insurance and pension plans; and changing the very notion of shopping by utilizing showrooms and traveling salesmen.

subjects: Biography,  Potters,  Industrialists,  Wedgwood, Josiah, -- 1730-1795,  Wedgwood, josiah, 1730-1795

People: Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795)

Places: Great Britain