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Merrill and his friend, Edmund C. Lynch, created Merrill Lynch in 1915.Merrill made his money by investing. He orchestrated the 1926 merger which created the Safeway food chain, and Merrill Lynch provided investment banking services to Safeway to finance the acquisition of other chains, growing Safeway to more than 3,500 stores across the United States by 1931.
Winthrop Hiram "Win" Smith Jr. (born 1949 in New York, New York) is the former executive vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co. and Chairman of Merrill Lynch International, Inc. He spent 27 years at Merrill Lynch, beginning in 1974, after receiving an MBA from Wharton , retiring in January 2002.
Merrill Chase Galleries was an art dealership in Chicago, Illinois.It was started in 1964 by Robert Merrill Chase Sr., and his father, Merrill Chase. [1] [2] By 1978 it had more than 150 employees and 13 galleries, and was among the largest organizations of its kind in the United States.
Established as the Merrill Lynch Greater Europe Investment Trust in June 2004, [2] [3] it adopted the current name in 2008. [4] the fund has been managed by BlackRock since 2008 and the chairman is Eric Sanderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. [5]
In 1969, the company was sold to Merrill Lynch and would become Merrill Lynch, Royal Securities Limited. Eventually, the Royal Securities name vanished and the company operated as Merrill Lynch Canada Ltd. who over time would sell off their Canadian retail brokerage business to Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce .
In 1996 Lynch founded Autonomy, a search software company, with David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt. [9] With Lynch as chief executive officer (CEO), Autonomy became one of the UK's top 100 public companies, and a leading company in Silicon Fen. [12] [4] Lynch was described in the press as the British equivalent of the American businessman Bill Gates.
Fenner & Beane was a brokerage firm based in New Orleans, Louisiana.Founded in 1916 as Fenner Gatling & Beane, it was renamed in 1919. The firm was founded by the Beane Brothers, who were New Orleans cotton merchants, to manage their exposure to fluctuations in commodity prices.
Launched on June 21, 2010, [3] Merrill Edge is a "a no-frills brokerage unit" of parent company Bank of America's retail banking division. [4] Created after Merrill Lynch became a subsidiary of Bank of America in 2008, it contains the Merrill Lynch name and its employees are included in Merrill Lynch's number of employees. [5]