At all uncooperative altitude which has affirmed as our consciousness to В"captains of the capitalist industryВ" it would be incorrect, speaking about a role of Netherlanders in world affairs to bypass full silence of those who stood at sources of a birth of the large industrial enterprises who confirmed high economic potential of the country. If to ponder, say, brothers Filips as a matter of fact, undoubtedly, stand among outstanding Dutches. How many they needed to show persistence, persistence, enterprise and mind that for any quarter of the century to transform the primitive workshop which was in a premise, more similar to a shed, in one of the most powerful transnational monopolies! The another matter by means of what, what rate of exploitation of the workers which number grew year from a year, reached amazing effect of growth, but is the immutable law of capitalism.

Brothers Gerard and Anton Filips occurred from a family of the wholesale dealer the colonial goods - coffee, tea and tobacco. Brothers possessed talents, so necessary in enterprise activity, - talent of the engineer and talent of the businessman. In 1890 Gerard has made the first lamp nakalivanija. Anton studied at this time at trading school in Amsterdam. In the letter to it the father has told about plan Gerarda and has asked to arrive to help that to the business organisations. Anton has returned to the village where then lived four thousand inhabitants, has returned, at all not suspecting, that will put in pawn a basis of powerful concern which will soon transform a usual small village into a large city.

Anton's activity promoted joint venture formation. Almost every day with the small small suitcase filled with product samples, it travelled about on the country, winning liking of consumers. And soon brothers make the decision on an exit abroad. And if Germany following there was Russia where the sales volume was defined hundreds thousand lamps a year was the first country where their production began to be delivered. Thanks to such market manufacture of lamps from 100 thousand in 1895 within two decades has increased to 70 million from which almost 85 percent intended for deliveries abroad. Blossoming В"Filips glulampenfabrikenВ" begins with the radio invention. For manufacture expansion at once it was required 10 thousand workers. Sensitively having caught developing conjuncture, brothers have quickly grasped leadership in radio industry sphere. Simultaneously with it the firm began to build apartment houses, shops, schools, having transformed in essence former village Eindhoven in Filipsstad - the city of Filipsa. Eindhoven remains to that and today: in it almost all belongs "Filipsu". The city is connected more than with 140 countries where branches and concern affiliated companies are located.

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