Founded by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis in 1905, in London, England, and was recently ranked 57 on the world's most powerful brands. The original name of the company was Wilsdorf and Davis, and in 1919, operations were relocated to Geneva, Switzerland.

Rolex has a distinct, insurmountable advantage: It wrote the rule book.

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The story of Lays started with a young man named Herman Lay, born in 1909 in Charlotte, North Carolina. After dropping out of college during the Great Depression, he worked for the Bartlett food company where he began experimenting with potato chips. In Nashville, Tennessee, Lay began to sell bags of potato chips to his customers as a traveling salesman. He latched onto an innovation that allowed potato chips to be sealed in wax paper bags and become portable snacks. And so, Lay's Chips were born!

Samsung’s history began as a trading company trading locally produced food and textiles. However, it didn’t take long for Samsung to expand its reach into various fields. In the 1960s, the company ventured into the electronics industry, manufacturing black-and-white televisions and consumer electronics. This was the beginning of Samsung’s domination of the consumer electronics market.

Listen to this new episode of "Success Stories" to learn more about Samsung!