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Origins. Both Exxon and Mobil were descendants of Standard Oil, established by John D. Rockefeller and partners in 1870 as the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. In 1882, it together with its affiliated companies was incorporated as the Standard Oil Trust with Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Standard Oil Company of New York as its largest companies.
ExxonMobil Corporation [a] ( / ˌɛksɒnˈmoʊbəl / EKS-on-MOH-bəl; commonly shortened to Exxon [5] [6] [7]) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller 's Standard Oil. The company, which took its present name in 1999 per the merger of Exxon and Mobil, is vertically integrated ...
Station signage at an Exxon station in Columbus, Ohio, featuring the Esso logo, while BP owns the rights to the Standard Oil name in Ohio. In February 2016, ExxonMobil successfully asked a U.S. federal court to lift the 1930s, trademark injunction that banned it from using the Esso brand in some states.
One Nationwide Plaza. / 39.968462; -83.002449. One Nationwide Plaza is a 40-story skyscraper in Columbus, Ohio that serves as the corporate office headquarters of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. It is part of the complex of buildings known as Nationwide Plaza. Nationwide outgrew its 246 North High Street Building by the 1970s and work ...
Encova Building. / 39.963392°N 82.987749°W / 39.963392; -82.987749. The Encova Building (formerly known as the Motorists Mutual Building) is a 286 ft (87m) tall skyscraper located at 471 East Broad Street Columbus, Ohio. It was completed in 1973 and was designed by Brubaker/Brandt and Maddox NBD. It is the 18th tallest building in ...
Humble Oil and Refining Co. was an American oil company founded in 1911 in Humble, Texas. In 1919, a 50% interest in Humble was acquired by the Standard Oil of New Jersey which acquired the rest of the company in September 1959. [1] The Humble brand was used by Standard Oil of New Jersey until 1973, when the company rebranded nationwide as ...
Revenue. US$ 6.2 billion [1] Number of employees. 3,200. Website. www .battelle .org. Headquarters in Columbus. Battelle Memorial Institute (or simply Battelle) is a private nonprofit applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The institute opened in 1929 but traces its origins to the 1923 will of Ohio ...
Preston Centre. / 39.96226111°N 82.99666694°W / 39.96226111; -82.99666694. The Preston Centre is a 27-story, 317-foot (97 m) office building and skyscraper on Capitol Square in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The Preston Centre is the 15th-tallest building in Columbus. The tower is named for Preston Wolfe, a former worker there. [2]