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During recent faults with the electric power from which half of America has suffered hardly probable not, computers of the New York stock exchange worked without hindrances. The reason for they be systems of an uninterrupted food from Emerson. A century ago hardly probable someone could assume, that equipment Emerson will provide power safety of one of the main stock exchanges of the world.

Company Emerson history has begun in 1890 when natives of Scotland brothers Charles and Alexander Mestony have based firm Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. More centuries ago they have seen huge potential in hardly arising electric business. Approximately in the same years have been based Compagnie Generale d ` Electricite (1898) and The General Electric Company (1886).

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Mestony were engaged in creation of the reliable electromotor and reception of the patent for its design. The money at brothers did not suffice, therefore as the main investor of the project the former military man and lawyer John Uizli Emerson has been involved. On his name the company has been named, and it became its first president.

John Emerson was the person who has been not deprived of talents. He was born in 1830 in small town Ajronton, the State of Missouri, served as the officer in army of the USA, has ended legal school of Michigan university and at the age of 27 years has come back home, where began to work as the judge.

Having worked 30 years in Ajrontone, in 1887 Emerson was given assignment to Saint Louis. There it also has met brothers Mestonov which has convinced it to put up money in rather risky enterprise for those times. John of risk was not afraid. The history has shown, that it was right.

The newborn firm began to advance persistently the electromotors for what she had to create the new markets actually. The area of household appliances became a priority direction. In 1892 on the American counters there were first electric fans of manufacture Emerson. Thanking these simple devices the firm in the first years of the XX-th century has got obshcheamerikanskuju popularity.

The First World War has a little wagged on activity Emerson. Company business laid away from an arms market - from today's positions it seems surprising, but in 1914 founders of military technics not too required electromotors. In days of war Emerson continued to make fans for the Americans not too disturbed by tragedy of the Old World, and the company searched for new spheres of application of the electromotors - to fans sewing machines, tooth drills and even musical instruments were added.

In 1920th years the company, quickly developing, continued to electrify a life of Americans. New possibilities of an electricity became the basic impulse to that. It has appeared, that the electric motor can be applicable hardly probable not in any sphere of human activity. In the consumer market all those devices which were developed by engineers-innovators - pumps, dispersed from success of a saw, lebedki etc. The company delivered electromotors for these devices, but nevertheless the basic goods of firm there were fans. Emerson during this period yet was not the company-brand, its electromotors were in the devices made other companies, however it quite suited firm which of a small family workshop has outgrown in the enterprise of average business.

Idyll was destroyed by Great depression. The labour market has failed suddenly. Americans have simply lost possibility to buy electric devices. Emerson it has appeared on the verge of bankruptcy. Deduce firm from a distress occurrence of new products could. Engineers of the company have thought up the tight electromotor for refrigerators. The American victualers, worrying crisis not less hard, than businessmen in other branches as tried to save, from acquisition of refrigerating devices could not refuse. In turn, housewives have quickly thought, that a refrigerator - a thing necessary. It also promoted growth of sales. Thus, Emerson has gone through Great depression thanks to refrigerators.

To the beginning of Second World War Emerson strongly stood standing. It has started to be switched gradually from manufacture of exclusively electric motors for home appliances to manufacturing of the industrial electric equipment. In this quality Emerson in days of war has received large orders of defensive department of the USA, in particular, let out the equipment for heavy bombers B-24. These «flying fortresses» were used on various battlefields, patrolled water area of Atlantic ocean. Their main task here consisted in struggle against the German surface and underwater ships. Equipped with a radar, planes tracked down German vessels, and then destroyed them. Emerson let out tureli - devices for turn of aviation guns - and by the war end unexpectedly for itself became the world's largest manufacturer aviation turelej.

After war when necessity in tureljah has disappeared, Emerson it was necessary to solve at once some problems. The first of them has been connected with the factor of strongly pronounced seasonal prevalence of sales of the main goods of the company - fans. Despite assortment expansion, fans continued to be for Emerson the goods number one, but the prospect to do business only in a hot season did not suit managers. Another risen before Emerson a problem - the become aggravated competition in the market of electromotors where company positions were restricted by other large manufacturers, for example, General Electric.

In the early fifties head Emerson V.R.Persons was engaged in re-equipment and decentralisation of industrial base of the company.

Emerson has absorbed some companies and as a result has got into branches new to: manufacture of instrumentations for the industry and power, manufacturing of compressors and an electric equipment for cars. Thus Persons remained it is attached to old strategy Emerson - to make accessories, instead of an end-product.

For incomplete 20 years, with 1954 on 1973, Persons has achieved considerable successes. The number of factories of the company has increased with 2 to 82, and staff with 4000 to 31 000 persons. Sales Emerson, in turn, have increased from several millions to billion dollars a year.

Charles Knight became successor Personsa in 1973. If the first president has provided the companies fast quantitative growth on a share of the second "putting in order" in the expanded business has dropped out. Knight has accepted from Personsa big, but the friable company. Fast growth has led to that new divisions had not time to be integrated into a single whole. In 1973 Emerson represented more likely «association biznesov», than a corporate organism.

As the head of the company methodical and consecutive Knight has begun the activity with updating of administrative practice. It began to "grind" management, including has started to spend annual conferences and seminars on which questions of planning were considered and results of the accounting period were estimated. In due course punctual, meticulous, disciplined style Emerson became the sample for imitation. In 2000 magazine Business Week will name Charles Knight among the best managers of corporate America.

The businessman continued to expand a company sphere of action. In 1970 - 1980 Emerson has made some acquisitions thanks to which has got into fields of activity new to: municipal electric power industry, computer technologies, management of business processes.

In 1982 Knight has deduced the company on a stock exchange, and in 1984 has dared at change of corporate strategy. Within 94 years the company specialised mainly on manufacture of accessories - it produced an electric equipment which became a component of finished goods of other companies. Henceforth Emerson has decided to make own finished goods with the greatest possible added cost - and production corresponding to the highest quality standards. Therefore second half 1980 and partially 1990th years have passed for Emerson under the sign of perfection of technological processes.

Besides, Knight has decided to finish territorial limitation of business. All history Emerson was the American company which operated mainly in the market of the USA. Its head has decided to transform Emerson into a world brand. It began to make the way on the growing markets of Europe and Asia, building system of direct sales outside of the USA. Despite a competition to party GE, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Emerson slowly, but correctly went to the planned purpose. In 2002 of sale outside of the USA have made 42 % of total amount of business of the company ($5,8 mlrd in money terms).

Leaving the post in October, 2000, Charles Knight said, that has aimed the company at the further development and that development it will depend on that, how much the company can use accessible to it technological and manpower resources.

Replaced Knight on a post of the head of the company David Farr did not begin to depart from the installations developed by the predecessor. Starting a management of business, he has declared, that will continue a course on the investment into the future. In understanding of managers Emerson the further development of the company communicates with building of a power infrastructure in developing countries and prompt technological perfection.

Within the limits of this course Emerson recently invested $2,5 mlrd in the companies working on an emerging market energosetej.

One of last "hobbies" Emerson is connected with telecommunications. During 1990 company made the equipment for power maintenance of communication statements. This market has so interested the company, that in 2000 she has decided to allocate it in independent division - Emerson Telecommunications Products. Now on this division $1 mlrd sales annually are necessary.

The company makes the electromechanical equipment, means of automation for power, the industries, fuel sector, municipal services and communication. Besides, Emerson lets out household to the electrical engineer, the equipment for cars.

Production Emerson is on sale in 150 countries. The sales volume in 2002 has made $13,8 mlrd, profit - $1,1 billion In structure Emerson are allocated over 60 divisions and 320 industrial objects. Company staff totals 111 500 persons.

Capitalisation - $22,4 billion Basic competitors - ABB, American Power Conversion, GE, Hitachi, Raytheon, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Toshiba, United Technologies.

In 2003 Emerson has got to the list of fifty «the Most authoritative firms of the world». Among the most recognised companies of world Emerson has occupied 3 place, it is direct for General Electric and Sony. In the similar list of American companies Emerson has conceded only General Electric.