In the history of enterprise, Carl Franz Bally is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Carl Franz Bally as Swiss businessman (1821-1899).
Carl Franz Bally was born at Schönenwerd in 1821. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur and politician.
His recorded holdings include Bally.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Switzerland shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Carl Franz Bally died in 1899, aged 78. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Holdings: Bally
