who owns northrop grumman corporation?
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Northrop Grumman is a publicy-traded and publicly-owned company. Its New York Stock Exchange Symbol is NOC.\n\nNorthrop Grumman Corporation\n1840 Century Park East\nLos Angeles, CA 90067-2199 \n\nPhone: 310-553-6262\nFax: 310-553-2076\nhttp://www.northropgrumman.com\n\nHere is a short history of the company that will probably answer any other questions you may have.\n\nHISTORY OF NORTHROP GRUMMAN\n------------------------------\n\nJack Northrop co-founded Lockheed Aircraft in 1927 and designed its record-setting Vega monoplane. He founded two more companies -- Avion Corporation (formed in 1928 and bought by United Aircraft and Transportation) and Northrop Corporation (formed in 1932 with Douglas Aircraft, which absorbed it in 1938) -- before founding Northrop Aircraft in California in 1939. \n\nDuring WWII Northrop produced the P-61 fighter and the famous Flying Wing bomber, which failed to win a production contract. In the 1950s Northrop depended heavily on F-89 fighter and Snark missile sales. When Thomas Jones succeeded Jack Northrop as president (1959), he moved the company away from risky prime contracts in favor of numerous subcontracts and bought Page Communications Engineers (telecommunications, 1959) and Hallicrafters (electronics, 1966) to reduce its dependence on government contracts.\n\nIn the early 1970s Northrop was hit with a bribery scandal and the disclosure of illegal payments to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign fund; Jones was eventually fined for an illegal contribution. As a result, a shareholder lawsuit forced Jones to resign as president (he was allowed to remain as chairman). In 1981 the company won the B-2 bomber contract. Jones retired as chairman in late 1990, and under the leadership of Kent Kresa (who became CEO in early 1990 and chairman when Jones retired), Northrop pleaded guilty to 34 counts related to fudging test results on some government projects; it was fined $17 million. In a related shareholders' suit, Northrop paid $18 million in damages in 1991.\n\nNorthrop and private investment firm The Carlyle Group bought LTV's Vought Aircraft in 1992. In 1994 it paid $2.1 billion for Grumman Corporation, a premier electronic systems firm, and changed its name to Northrop Grumman.\n\nIn 1929 Roy Grumman, Jake Swirbul, and Bill Schwendler founded Grumman; within three months it had a contract to design a US Navy fighter. Grumman completed its first commercial aircraft (the Grumman Goose) in 1937 and went public in 1938. It soared during WWII on the wings of its Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes.\n\nGrumman built its first corporate jet (Gulfstream) in 1958, and began work on the Lunar Module for the Apollo space program in 1963. It was near bankruptcy during the 1970s due to costs related to its F-14 Tomcat fighter. Grumman rebuilt its military business in the 1980s and achieved its greatest success in electronic systems.\n\nThe UK Ministry of Defence awarded a $279 million contract to Northrop Grumman in 1995 to develop and produce a system to counter infrared missiles. In 1997 Northrop Grumman bought Logicon (information and battle-management systems). It then agreed to an $11.6 billion purchase by Lockheed Martin, but the US government, citing concerns about increased lack of competition in the defense industry, blocked the deal in 1998. As a result, Northrop Grumman began a restructuring that cut 10,500 defense and aircraft jobs and added 2,500 positions to its Logicon subsidiary.\n\nIn 1999 Northrop Grumman bought the information systems division of California Microwave for $93 million and Allegheny Teledyne's Ryan Aeronautical (aerial drones) for $140 million. The next year Northrop Grumman sold its underperforming commercial aerostructures business to The Carlyle Group in a $1.2 billion transaction in order to focus on its growing defense electronics and information technology segments. Later in 2000 Northrop Grumman acquired Comptek Research and bought Federal Data (information
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IBM:International Business Machines is a publically held company. So the short answer is the stockholders. You can research their prospectus to find out who the major stockholders are. But no one "owns" the compnay privately.
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They are a big sponsor of car racing. They are a car parts company (Number One Parts Inc).
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CNN is owned by Time Warner-AOL and they donated 1.6 million to Bush's 2000 campaign.\n\nCBS is owned by GE which is one of the top 10 defense contractors.\n\nCare to take a guess who they might be affiliated with?
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Igor Sikorsky\nlook around 4 more\nhint: last name is a big business
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locheed, boeing, arms makers for the military
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German auto manufacturer BMW announced it had purchased Rover from British Aerospace.\n\nAnd probably a lot of other stuff.
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Owner of Klarr racing engines.  They build engines in Hattiesberg, Mississippi.
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The current CEO is John B. Holland.\n\nhttp://www.hoovers.com/fruit-of-the-loom/--ID__11960--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA\nThe Navy\nAeronautics Companies, e.g. Boeing
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wow, amazeing what modern russian jets can do, no wonder they are the leading worlds arms supplier,people only buy the best quality stuff not american junk that don't work.cool video i must say.
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American Company that Manufactures Everything
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I would say the guy who owns the Seahawks-Paul Allen. He was the co-founder of Microsoft.
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Gazprom I believe...but it may be Lukoil as said by "Starme", their website says that it was state owned and doesn't mention Viktor Gordesky though -- which is why I suggest it might be Gazprom.
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The Tribune Company is the current owner of the Cubs, who are not for sale. The Tribune Co. also owns WGN, 26 other TV stations,  and websites such as CareerBuilder.com. They also own newspapers such the LA Times and Newsday and a couple Spanish-language papers.
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Actually they are not currently building aircraft carriers of their own....just studying the possibilities.\n\nThey are most likely going to add more of the casino carriers.  They already have 4 of them, Russian ships such as the Kirov and the Kiev.\n\nYup, a copy Nimitz is sitting in a lake now.  Strange huh?\n\nHere it is:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&q=China&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=31.10531,121.015059&spn=0.004547,0.010729
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bruton smith. he also owns bristol, texas, atlanta, las vegas. am i forgetting any? probably