Sunday, November 21, 2010

Corporate Siblings

Aldi is a private supermarket chain headquartered in Germany. In the United States, it operates Aldi USA, a group of discount grocery stores famous for requiring a quarter deposit for a shopping cart, and owns Trader Joe's, a set of trendy food markets that clothe employees in Hawaiian shirts.

Henry Ford founded three car companies. The first was dissolved under financial distress. The second was renamed Cadillac and within a decade was bought by General Motors. The third still is named Ford Motor Company.

The initials in TD Ameritrade and TD Waterhouse both stand for Toronto-Dominion Bank, one of Canada's largest banks.