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Norwest Corp
Norwest may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Norwest Corporation, a bank based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that operated from 1929 to 1998 * Norwest United, an Association Football Club in Auckland, New Zealand * Norwest Venture Partners, an investment firm based in Palo Alto, California * Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, a co-operative that traded as Norwest from 1982 to 1991 * Vinci SA, parent company of Norwest Holst Places * Norwest, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Norwest Business Park, in Norwest, New South Wales * Norwest railway station, in Norwest, New South Wales * Wells Fargo Arena (Tempe, Arizona), formerly Norwest Arena * Wells Fargo Center (Minneapolis), formerly the Norwest Center Other uses * Henry Norwest Henry Louis Norwest (sometimes spelled Northwest) MM & Bar (c. 188118 August 1918) was a distinguished Canadian sniper in World War I. Early life Norwest was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta District, North-West Territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwest Corporation
Norwest Corporation was a banking and financial services company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. In 1998, it merged with Wells Fargo & Co. and since that time has operated under the Wells Fargo name. History Early formation The earliest roots of the company are with the Northwestern National Bank established in Minneapolis in 1872. Early Minneapolis business and political leaders Dorilus Morrison and Henry T. Welles were the bank's first two presidents. Initially the bank was heavily supported by the Northern Pacific Railroad, but as the city and region grew the bank's deposits and assets grew in kind. Between 1872 and 1892 the bank's deposits increased from $50,000 to $3 million. Between 1892 and 1902 deposits more than tripled to more than $10 million. Great Depression and Banco During the generally prosperous 1920s, the nation's agricultural sector did not share in the good times. Many smaller banks that had overextended credit to farmers ran into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwest United
Norwest United AFC was a semi-professional association football club in Auckland, New Zealand. They merged with Waitakere City in 2021 to form West Coast Rangers West Coast Rangers Football Club is an amateur football club based in Whenuapai, New Zealand. Formed in 2021 as an amalgamation between Waitakere City and Norwest United, West Coast Rangers previously competed in the Northern League which i ... References UltimateNZSoccer website's Norwest United page External links Norwest United Official websiteNFF CLUB DIRECTORY Association football clubs in Auckland 1984 establishments in New Zealand {{NewZealand-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwest Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners (Norwest) is an American venture and growth equity investment firm. The firm targets early to late-stage venture and growth equity investments across several sectors, including cloud computing and information technology, Internet, SaaS, business and financial services, and healthcare. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Norwest has offices in San Francisco and subsidiaries in Mumbai, India and Herzelia, Israel. The firm has funded more than 650 companies since inception. As of 2022, the firm has approximately 200 active companies across its venture and growth portfolio. History Northwest Venture Fund, a private equity and venture capital affiliate of Norwest Corporation, was founded in Minneapolis in 1961. It later merged with Wells Fargo in 1998. The Northwest Growth Fund grew under the leadership of CEO Robert Zicarelli, including the opening of an office in Silicon Valley. Zicarelli retired in 1988 and was succeeded by Daniel Haggerty who retir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochdale Society Of Equitable Pioneers
The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, was an early consumers' co-operative, and one of the first to pay a patronage dividend, forming the basis for the modern co-operative movement. Although other co-operatives preceded it, the Rochdale Pioneers co-operative became the prototype for societies in Great Britain. The Rochdale Pioneers are most famous for designing the Rochdale Principles, a set of principles of co-operation, which provide the foundation for the principles on which co-ops around the world operate to this day. The model the Rochdale Pioneers used is a focus of study within co-operative economics. History As the mechanisation of the Industrial Revolution was forcing more and more skilled workers into poverty, a group of tradesmen decided to band together to open their own store selling food items they could not otherwise afford. With lessons from prior failed attempts at co-operation in mind, they designed the now famous Rochdale Principles, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci SA
Vinci (corporately styled VINCI) is a French concessions and construction company founded in 1899 as Société Générale d'Enterprises. Its head office is in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris. Vinci is listed on Euronext's Paris stock exchange and is a member of the Euro Stoxx 50 index. History The company was founded by Alexandre Giros and Louis Loucheur as Société Générale d’Entreprises S.A. (SGE) in 1899. SGE was owned by Compagnie générale d'électricité (CGE), now Alcatel, from 1966 until 1981, when Saint-Gobain acquired a majority stake. Companies acquired by SGE include Sogea (a civil engineering firm founded in 1878), bought in 1986, Campenon Bernard (a civil engineering and development firm founded in 1920), bought in 1988, and Norwest Holst (a British civil engineering firm founded in 1969 by the merger of Holst & Co, established in 1918, and Norwest Construction, established in 1923), bought in 1991. In 1988, SGE was acquired by Compagnie génér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwest, New South Wales
Norwest is a suburb of the Hills District within Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located 35 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district. The Norwest Business Park is located within Norwest and the adjacent suburb of Bella Vista and Baulkham Hills. The council chambers for The Hills Shire Council are also located within this suburb. History Norwest was officially proclaimed a suburb on 29 June 2018. Previously, it had been part of the older suburbs of Baulkham Hills and Kellyville. The Geographical Names Board, in June 2018, amended the suburb boundaries of Kellyville, Baulkham Hills, Bella Vista and Rouse Hill resulting in the creation of two new suburbs named North Kellyville and Norwest. Commercial areas Norwest Marketplace is a shopping centre featuring a Coles and many specialty stores including McDonald's, Subway, Mad Mex, Oporto, Joey's Pizza & Pasta, small electronic and clothing stores, banks, restaurant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwest Business Park
The Norwest Business Park is a business park in the suburbs of Norwest, New South Wales, Norwest and Bella Vista, New South Wales, Bella Vista in the Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area of The Hills Shire in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Norwest Business Park is bordered by Windsor Road to the east, and Old Windsor Road to the west, with Norwest Boulevard stretching the length of the park between the two main arterial roads. Over 400 companies are located in the park, employing more than 25,000 people. The complex consists of a mix of commercial, professional and health-care services provided to the population of Sydney's Hills District, New South Wales, Hills District. A Shopping mall, shopping centre, Rydges Hotels & Resorts, Rydges hotel, two Filling station, service stations, Hills Shire Council, Hillsong Church, Virgin Active gym, alternative health services, medical centre, commercial law firm HWL Ebsworth, banks, child care centres, busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwest Railway Station
Norwest railway station is an underground rapid transit station built by the Metro Trains Sydney consortium at Brookhollow Avenue, Norwest, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station was built as part of Transport for NSW's Sydney Metro Northwest project, to serve future train services to Rouse Hill and Chatswood. The station is planned to eventually serve trains to the Sydney central business district and Bankstown as part of the government's 20-year ''Sydney's Rail Future'' strategy. Norwest station takes its name from the 172-hectare Norwest Business Park, in which it is located. History The NSW Government announced a future railway line to Castle Hill as part of its ''Action for Public Transport'' strategy in 1998. A more specific but longer-term plan presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later included a 'Mungerie Park Line', with a station at Norwest Business Park. In the years that followed, Norwest Station formed part of succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Fargo Arena (Tempe, Arizona)
Desert Financial Arena (formerly ASU Activity Center and Wells Fargo Arena) is a 14,198-seat multi-purpose arena located at 600 E Veterans Way in Tempe, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. It sits immediately east of Sun Devil Stadium on the northern edge of the Tempe campus of Arizona State University (ASU). Constructed in the spring of 1974 as the ASU Activity Center and at the cost of $8 million, it is the home of men's basketball, women's basketball, and women's volleyball and former home of women's gymnastics and men's wrestling. The facility also plays host to graduation ceremonies and a variety of concerts and shows. The building replaced Sun Devil Gym as the primary arena for the Sun Devils' basketball team. The former naming rights for the arena were purchased by Wells Fargo & Co. in 1997. The current naming rights to arena were purchased by Desert Financial Credit Union in 2019 for $1.5 million for 5 years. Design The structure is long, wide and six stories high. The str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Fargo Center (Minneapolis)
The Wells Fargo Center (90 South 7th St), formerly known as Norwest Center, is the third-tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after the IDS Center and the Capella Tower. Completed in 1988, it is 774 feet (235.6 m) tall. For many years, this was believed to be one foot shorter than Capella, but that structure actually had a different height (see the Capella Tower article for details). Norwest Center was designed with a modernized art deco style by César Pelli, reflecting nearby structures such as the nearby CenturyLink Building and the Foshay Tower, which is several blocks away. It is also considered by many to be a homage to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Wells Fargo Center sits on the site of the old Northwestern National Bank Building, which was destroyed in a fire in 1982. The original design called for a 45-story tower with a square footprint that would have been crowned the tallest building in Minneapolis; however, the site was halved in size, requ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Norwest
Henry Louis Norwest (sometimes spelled Northwest) MM & Bar (c. 188118 August 1918) was a distinguished Canadian sniper in World War I. Early life Norwest was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta District, North-West Territories, sometime in the early 1880s, the son of Métis parents Louis Northwest or Watson and Geneviève Boucher. Norwest worked as a ranch hand and rodeo performer, then for a short time he served with the Royal North-West Mounted Police. In January 1915 he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). Military career Henry Louis Norwest initially enlisted in Wetaskiwin as Henry Louie, listing his trade as "Cow Puncher". However, he was discharged just three months later for "drunkenness", according to official records. He then re-enlisted in Calgary, under the name of Henry Norwest. In his nearly three years of service with the 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion, the lance corporal achieved a documented sniping record of 115 fatal shots. His true number of kills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
