In the history of enterprise, Ferran Casablancas i Planell is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ferran Casablancas i Planell as Spanish inventor and businessperson (1874-1960).
Ferran Casablancas i Planell was born at Sabadell in 1874. His recorded nationality is Spain.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as inventor, businessperson and banker.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Spain shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Ferran Casablancas i Planell died in 1960, aged 86. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
