Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Fortune Magazine


Fortune is a global business magazine.

It was published by Time Inc.'s.

It was found by Henry Luce.

It was found 80 years ago in 1930.

It has information about business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner.

Its the world largest media conglomerate.

A quate from Henry Luce : "We will not be over-optimistic. We will recognize that this business slump may last as long as an entire year."

Fortune was an oversized 11"×14".

At first it was $1 price because nobody had yet decided how much to charge.

There were 30,000 subscribers who had already signed up to receive that initial 184-page issue.

For many years Fortune was published as a monthly.

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S.

Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune, The list is of the 1000 largest American companies.

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