Bank News, May 1st, 2002
Financial services company reinvents itself from stagecoaches to Internet banking
Wells Fargo & Co. recently cetebrated 150 years in business - one of only about a dozen Fortune 500 companies founded in or before 1852 still in their original businesses and using their original names.
Wells Fargo was founded as a banking and express company on March 18, 1852, on Wall Street in New York City. Its first office opened on the waterfront of Gold Rush San Francisco on July 13, 1852, the site of the company's current headquarters.
Henry Wells and William Fargo founded the company to meet custom...
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