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  The Coors Story
Ongoing technological innovations went hand in hand with the company's growth during the 1960's and 1970's, and several successful subsidiary companies were created during that time to expand and market those technologies.
Coors' transition from a regional to international brewer began in the 1970's when the company started expanding both its product line and distribution.
Under the direction of fourth-generation Peter Coors, the company began the decade of the '90s by reaching a long-sought goal of becoming the nation's third largest brewer and experiencing the fastest volume growth rate in the industry.
www.alabev.com /coorstry.htm   (1689 words)

  
 Coors Brewing Company Summary
The Coors Brewing Company is a regional division of the world’s fifth-largest brewery companies, the Molson Coors Brewing Company.
The Coors Brewing Company is the principal subsidiary of the Adolph Coors Company.
Coors has a long history of labor strife that came to a head in the late 1970s with a nationwide boycott led by the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest union.
www.bookrags.com /Coors_Brewing_Company   (3167 words)

  
  USATODAY.com - Brewery magnate Joseph Coors dies at 85   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But the company was the object of sometimes bitter criticism from activists who criticized Coors' politics and accused the company of a variety of violations of labor and environmental laws and bias against gays and other minorities.
Coors also served a term as a regent of the University of Colorado, confronting what he saw as campus radicalism during the Vietnam War.
Coors and his brother worked in the same office, their desks not more than a foot apart.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-03-17-coors-obit_x.htm   (629 words)

  
 Dinnerware
Anchor Hocking Company was born of a merger of the Hocking Glass Company and Anchor Cap and Closure Corporation in 1937.
Coors Porcelain began as the Herold China and Pottery Company in 1910.
The Western Stoneware Company of Monmouth, Illinois, was born of a merger of seven smaller pottery companies.
www.hillhousewares.com /category0.html   (4540 words)

  
 Memories: Jimmy Hoffa Visits Coors
Joseph Coors was President of the Coors Porcelain Company, a fully-owned subsidiary of the Adolph Coors Company®.
Coors was the only company to succeed because Adolph Coors had connections in Germany that provided him the technology to make chemical porcelain.
Although the lawsuit was generated by the Adolph Coors Company, Hoffa had to recognize the union at the brewery.
ezinearticles.com /?Memories:-Jimmy-Hoffa-Visits-Coors&id=204623   (1552 words)

  
 Joseph Coors - SourceWatch
According to Watch.Pair.com database, Joseph Coors is the founder of the Council for National Policy:
Eventually, Coors and Paul M. Weyrich set up the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress to carry out political activities and the Heritage Foundation as a tax exempt educational research entity.
Coors put up the initial $250,000 in seed money to start Heritage in 1973.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Joseph_Coors   (527 words)

  
 New Document
Coors financed Herold to establish the Herold Pottery Company in Golden, Colorado.
It was at this point that Coors began to move the pottery more to the forefront of their business efforts.
Coors began helping with the war effort with the production of porcelains to be used as needed by the US military.
www.epier.com /iq.asp?724031   (518 words)

  
 A talk with the chairman.(interview with Bill Coors of Coors Brewing Co.)(Interview) - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Coors is fit and jovial at age 83.
The company was owned by my father, his two brothers and his three sisters, but my grandfather had seen to it that my father had control.
The aluminum companies couldn't give us any help, because they were supplying aluminum sheet that the can companies were making their lids.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-56947499.html   (5622 words)

  
 California News at Foodservice.com - The Nation's Source for Restaurant News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the 1970s, Coors began providing money and his famous name to start the Heritage Foundation, the influential think tank in Washington, D.C. Even earlier, he served as one of Reagan's advisers and backers in the "kitchen Cabinet," which financed Reagan's political career from the governorship of California to the White House.
In 1988 Coors retired as chief operating officer, a position he was appointed to in 1980.
Coors used his chemical engineering background to refine the brewery's cold-filtered beer manufacturing system, which he created with his brother Bill.
www.foodservice.com /news/company_news_detail.cfm?id=6232&company_name=California   (786 words)

  
 Adolph Coors Company IPO Shares - Colorado 1975
The Coors Brewing Company is a regional division of the world’s fifth-largest brewery companies, the Molson Coors Brewing Company.
The Coors Brewing Company is the principal subsidiary of the Adolph Coors Company.
Coors brewery in Golden, ColoradoIn 2003, Coors was the third largest producer of beer in the United States, and the second largest brewer in the United Kingdom through its subsidiary, Coors Brewers Limited.
www.scripophily.net /adcococo19.html   (1551 words)

  
 Adolph Coors at AllExperts
Adolph Coors (February 4, 1847 – June 5, 1929) was a brewer who started the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado in 1873.
Adolph was the son of Joseph Kuhrs (c1820-1862) and Helena Hein (c1820-1862), and was born in Barmen in Rhenish Prussia on February 4, 1847.
On November 14, 1873, Coors and the Denver confectioner Jacob Schueler purchased the abandoned Golden City Tannery and converted it to the Golden Brewery.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/ad/adolph_coors.htm   (551 words)

  
 Coors Brewing Company Tour
Take a tour at one of Colorado’s best-known companies, Coors, and enjoy up to 3 free samples of their variety of beer products (if you are over 21), or complimentary soft drinks if you are younger or prefer something non-alcoholic.
Coors was also the first company to produce an all-aluminum, two-piece beverage can in 1959.
But when Prohibition hit, the Coors family focused on their relatively small porcelain business, and it thrived, making everything from cooking utensils to scientific equipment.
www.colorado-for-free.com /FreeThingsToDoColorado/Coors.htm   (427 words)

  
 Coors
The forerunner of the Coors Porcelain Company was founded by a former Roseville Pottery executive John J. Herold.
He founded the Herold China and Pottery Company in Golden, Colorado in 1908.
The company is still in business today producing chemical porcelain and high temperature resistant ceramic products.
www.kandmantiques.com /Articles/Coors.html   (170 words)

  
 Joseph Coors - dKosopedia
Coors donated the first-year Heritage Foundation budget of $250,000 for 1973 from the coffers of the Coors Corporation...For the next two years Coors gave $200,000 to the group...then pledged $15,000 per month...
Eventually, Coors and Paul Weyrich set up the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress (CSFC) to carry out political activities and the Heritage Foundation as a tax exempt educational research entity.
Although Coors produced a legal opinion arguing there was no violation of law, Coors and friends were evicted.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Joseph_Coors   (469 words)

  
 Coors St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Adolph Coors (1847-1929) was born in Barmen, Prussia, and worked as an apprentice at the Henry Wenker Brewery in Dortmund, Germany.
Coors received a rare favorable report from 60 Minutes and the judgment that it had been the victim of a smear campaign by the AFL-CIO.
In 1978, Coors reintroduced Coors Light, the beer destined to become their number one product and one of the best-selling beers in the country, creating a larger demand for Coors in every state.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100287   (874 words)

  
 Adolph Coors Company - Coors Brewing Company
This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company in 1959 and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an eagle.
Certificate Vignette Adolph Coors Company, founded in 1873, is ranked among the 500 largest publicly traded corporations in the United States.
Coors products are available throughout the United States and in more than 30 international markets in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
www.antiqnet.com /detail,adolph-coors-company,336801.html   (405 words)

  
 Council for National Policy Database A-G
Jeffrey H. Coors sits on the Free Congress Foundation board of directors along with the FCF director Paul Weyrich, an ardent supporter of the neo-fascist Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Property; and Charles Moser, an editorial adviser to a publication that praises the Nazi Waffen SS.
Coors family funding continues to flow toward rightist groups, and the family's political involvement plays a crucial role in the establishment and maintenance of key organizations defining the political dialogue for both the New Right and the Religious Right.
The Coors family is highly influential in shaping the activities of three organizational pillars of the New Right--the Heritage Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation (FCF) and the Council for National Policy (CNP)--which comprise an influential force in Washington, DC.
watch.pair.com /database.html   (8875 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Brewery magnate Joseph Coors dies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the 1970s, Coors provided money and his famous name to start the Heritage Foundation, the influential think tank in Washington, D.C. Even earlier, he served as one of Reagan's advisers and backers in the "kitchen Cabinet," which financed Reagan's political career from the governorship of California to the White House.
His first job at Coors was with the company's ceramics division, working in the clay pits west of Golden where the raw material for porcelain was mined.
But Bill Coors said their politics were quite different.
www.usatoday.com /money/industries/food/2003-03-17-coors_x.htm   (600 words)

  
 CNN.com - Brewery magnate Joseph Coors dies at 85 - Mar. 17, 2003
Joseph Coors, who used his brewing fortune to support President Reagan and help create the conservative Heritage Foundation, has died at age 85.
Coors, whose grandfather founded Golden-based Adolph Coors Co. in 1873, died Saturday in Rancho Mirage, California, after a three-month battle with lymphatic cancer.
His brother, Bill Coors, serves as vice chairman for Adolph Coors Co. and his son, Peter Coors, is chairman.
cnn.com /2003/US/Central/03/17/obit.joseph.coors.ap/index.html   (655 words)

  
 sslam3
Flight testing of the missile was planned to be conducted over the northwest Pacific ocean with termination in deep ocean waters in the neighborhood where atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons had taken place.
As the ramjet program gained in importance, it was moved to the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (LRL) of the University of California in January 1957.
This mixture in a plastic mass was extruded by the Coors Porcelain Company under high pressure and then sintered to near theoretical minimum density.
www.vought.com /heritage/special/html/sslam3.html   (500 words)

  
 Golden Pioneer Museum - Golden, Colorado
Coors told us not to issue new ones unless the worker returned his old ones.
Coors if I could be absent one day, he inquired if I had my work done.
Bill and Joe Coors began to work at the plant when they were young men, and they were as nice to work with as their father and grandfather.
www.goldenpioneermuseum.com /documents/mmorton1923_hog.htm   (877 words)

  
 Council For National Policy (CNP) - C -Member Biographies
Joseph Coors, Jeffrey Coors, Darden Coors and Carin Coors are all members of the CNP and Linda Tafoya, executive director of the Adolph Coors Foundation, is believed to be a member as well.
Coors brags that it is the only U.S. brewery to pass the "Lavender Screen" test of gay-friendly policies developed by investment counselor Howard Tharsing of V Management in Oakland.
William K. Coors, chairman of Adolph Coors Company (NYSE: RKY), today announced changes to the composition of the Boards of Directors of Adolph Coors Company and the company's principal subsidiary, Coors Brewing Company, as well as changes to the roles and responsibilities of the top management of Coors Brewing Company.
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  Collectible Vintage Advertising, Ephemera, & Signs @ Collectics Antiques and Collectibles Mall & Consignment ...
From an estate liquidation of a long haul trucker, this vintage glass ashtray is a marketing piece of the Thurston Trucking Company and features the states in which it concentrates routes- North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
More from the consignment direct from the estate of an advertising company executive in Columbus, Ohio, these are selections of his hand drawn original artwork for advertisements and signs all throughout the midwest and beyond.
Published by the R. Reynolds Tobacco Company of Winston Salem, NC, the book is filled with beautiful color prints including an early feminist doctor print and terrific views of doctors with cigarettes as they give counsel or work.
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Glass bowing with Pyrex was easily mastered; hence, special distilling flasks, fractionating columns, the now familiar three-necked flasks for use with a mechanical stirrer, and the reflux condenser and dropping funnel were made and used as standard items in the prep labs.
Also in 1914, when shipments of laboratory porcelain ware from Germany ceased, the Coors Porcelain Company of Golden, Colorado, converted their ovenware and pottery plant to chemical porcelain ware.
The starting chemicals needed for checking procedures were contributed by the chemistry departments of the universities or the research departments of industrial companies, and the products of the syntheses then were added to the research stocks of the contributors or editors.
www.4ulr.com /products/currentprotocols/interscience/dataorganicsyth.html   (2845 words)

  
 Golden Genesis Company Announces a New Chairman of the Board, Two New Board Members and Bids Farewell to the Three ...
Coors is also a director of ACX and Hecla Mining Company.
John Coors pointed out that, "Each of these men have given a tremendous amount to this company.
Don Anderson was the founder of the Company, a director and Chairman of the board.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-10-1998/0000679312&EDATE=   (433 words)

  
 Golden Pioneer Museum - Golden, Colorado
At the age of 13, I was hired by Herman Coors, the plant manager.
Although I was graduated with a certificate to teach, I returned to Coors Porcelain to work full time.
I worked for three generations of Coors: Herman and Adolph Coors Sr., Adolph Coors Jr., and his sons Adolph ifi, Bill, and Joe; all of them were wonderful people.
goldenpioneermuseum.com /documents/ccritchfield1911_hog.htm   (691 words)

  
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The Coors Well ness Center currently exists where the Safeway Store was located in 1965.
The building in the background is the Coors Porcelain Company.
The Adolph Coors Company supplied the City of Golden with a large bulldozer, which wallowed in the muddy waters pushing fill into the rapidly disappearing banks.
www.udfcd.org /FWP/floodhistory/golden.html   (1749 words)

  
 Spinning Wheel
They of course were not made by Josiah's company, but are interesting nonetheless.
Coors Porcelain Company of Golden, CO manufacturers a mortar described as "Wedgwood Type Coors USA Porcelain".
The Coors Porcelain Company is the same family as the brewery.
www.alexisantiques.com /links/spinning.php   (2095 words)

  
 Coors
Coors ware was made by the Coors Porcelain Company of Golden, Colorado, a company founded with the help of the Coors Brewing Company.
The company name was changed in 1920, when Herold left.
Ribbed, Thermo Porcelain, Brown & Ivory Glaze, 6 In.
www.kovels.com /priceguide/kovels_coors   (509 words)

  
 TLPA: Meetings - Annual Convention & Exposition
Colorado Cab Company, doing business as Denver Yellow Cab, is pleased to be one of the TLPA convention host operators and is offering convention attendees a tour of their 8-acre facility.
Included in the convention registration fee are two breakfasts, two lunches, two cocktail receptions, a tour of a transportation company, a prize drawing, and, of course, the items the exhibitors and sponsors give away.
In addition, plenty of time is still built into the convention schedule for you to use to relax, enjoy and to speak informally with your fellow industry members.
www.tlpa.org /meetings/07annual_convention.cfm   (2156 words)

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