Author: Darius

I've spent over a decade researching and documenting the stories behind the world's most influential companies. What started as a personal fascination with how businesses evolve from small startups to global giants turned into CompaniesHistory.com—a platform dedicated to making corporate history accessible to everyone.

Key Stats Keurig Dr Pepper operates with annual revenue exceeding $15 billion as of 20241 JAB Holding Company maintains ownership of approximately 20-30% following share reductions in early 2024 Tim Cofer assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer in April 2024, bringing over 30 years of consumer packaged goods experience The Dr Pepper brand commands roughly 25-30% of parent company revenue, ranking as the second most popular soda in America Keurig Dr Pepper Inc., a publicly traded corporation on NASDAQ under ticker symbol KDP, owns Dr Pepper. This beverage company emerged from an $18.7 billion merger between Keurig Green Mountain…

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Key Stats Crunchyroll serves over 17 million paid subscribers across 200+ countries and territories as of 2025. Sony Group Corporation acquired the platform for $1.175 billion in August 2021. The streaming service generated approximately $565 million in annual revenue during 2025. Crunchyroll merged with Funimation in 2022, consolidating anime streaming under one brand. Sony Group Corporation owns Crunchyroll entirely, having acquired the platform from WarnerMedia in August 2021 for $1.175 billion. The Japanese conglomerate manages operations through Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex, positioning itself as the dominant force in global anime distribution. Founded in 2006 as a fan-driven site, Crunchyroll…

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Key Stats Etsy trades on NASDAQ under ticker ETSY with a market capitalization of $5.40 billion as of December 2025. The platform connects 8.1 million active sellers with 95.5 million active buyers across global markets. Institutional investors control 82.44% of outstanding shares through diversified investment portfolios. Kruti Patel Goyal assumes the CEO position on January 1, 2026, replacing Josh Silverman who moves to Executive Chair. Etsy operates as a publicly traded corporation with no single controlling owner. Institutional investors hold the majority of shares, led by BlackRock and Vanguard, which together control over 25% of the company. The Brooklyn-based marketplace…

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ChemBERTa models recorded 299,852 combined monthly downloads across Hugging Face repositories as of 2024, establishing the transformer-based architecture as a leading tool for molecular property prediction. The model achieved 95.2% ROC-AUC on toxicity classification benchmarks and demonstrated superior performance with 77 million compound training datasets. ChemBERTa-3 introduced billion-molecule scale training capabilities utilizing AWS and HPC infrastructure, marking a significant advancement in chemical foundation models for pharmaceutical research applications. ChemBERTa Key Statistics ChemBERTa models recorded 299,852 combined monthly downloads across three primary variants on Hugging Face as of 2024. The model achieved 95.2% ROC-AUC on ClinTox toxicity classification benchmarks, outperforming the…

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Key Stats Market capitalization reaches $306 billion as of November 2025 Institutional investors control 71.52% of total outstanding shares Operates in more than 200 countries with 500+ beverage brands Annual dividend increased for 63 consecutive years through 2025 Berkshire Hathaway, managed by Warren Buffett, stands as the primary owner among individual stakeholders, controlling approximately 9.3% of Coca-Cola equity. The company operates under a predominantly institutional ownership model, with major asset managers and investment firms holding substantial positions alongside retail investors and company executives. The Coca-Cola Company maintains operations across every continent, distributing products ranging from traditional carbonated beverages to waters,…

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LegalBERT recorded 4.86 million downloads in December 2025, positioning it as the leading domain-specific language model for legal natural language processing. The model achieved a 78.9 μ-F1 harmonic mean score on the LexGLUE benchmark, outperforming general-purpose BERT by 2.2 points. Developed by Athens University of Economics and Business, LegalBERT operates on 110 million parameters trained across 450,816 legal documents spanning 12 GB of text. This data compilation presents verified statistics on LegalBERT’s technical specifications, benchmark performance, adoption metrics, and market positioning within the expanding legal AI ecosystem. LegalBERT Key Statistics LegalBERT processes 4.86 million monthly downloads as of December 2025,…

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AudioLM achieved a 51.2% human distinguishability rate in 2024, meaning generated speech is statistically indistinguishable from real human recordings. Google Research developed this hierarchical audio generation framework with 0.3 billion parameters per stage and a 600 million parameter w2v-BERT component for semantic extraction. The AI voice generator market reached $3.14 billion in 2024 and projects growth to $17.69 billion by 2030. AudioLM Key Statistics AudioLM uses 0.3 billion parameters per stage across three hierarchical modeling stages as of 2024 Human evaluators achieved only 51.2% accuracy distinguishing AudioLM-generated speech from real recordings SoundStorm successor delivers 100x faster generation speed compared to…

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Key Stats Stock trades on Nasdaq under symbol DKNG at approximately $34 per share as of December 2025 Market capitalization reached $17 billion with operations spanning 28 states plus Ontario Third quarter 2025 revenue hit $1.14 billion representing 4% annual growth Full-year 2025 revenue guidance projects $6.3 to $6.6 billion showing 35% growth from 2024[1] DraftKings operates as a publicly traded sports entertainment and gaming company with institutional investors controlling roughly 96% of outstanding shares. Vanguard Group and BlackRock represent the two largest institutional stakeholders managing approximately 13% combined ownership. The remaining equity belongs to retail shareholders and company insiders…

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Key Stats Roark Capital acquired Dave’s Hot Chicken in June 2025 for approximately $1 billion. The company operates over 310 locations worldwide with franchise agreements for more than 1,000 units. Annual system-wide revenue exceeded $600 million in 2024, representing 57% year-over-year growth. Plans include opening 155 new restaurants in 2025, reaching approximately 400 total locations by year-end. Roark Capital Group acquired approximately 75% of Dave’s Hot Chicken in June 2025 through a transaction valued at $1 billion. The founding team retains 10% collective equity, while CEO Bill Phelps holds 5% ownership. Celebrity investors including Drake and Samuel L. Jackson maintain…

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Key Stats E.l.f. Beauty reported $1.31 billion in net sales for fiscal year 2025, marking a 28% year-over-year increase.1 The company achieved 27 consecutive quarters of net sales growth as of Q2 fiscal 2026.2 Institutional investors control approximately 95% of E.l.f. Beauty’s outstanding shares. E.l.f. Beauty’s board composition includes 67% women directors, making it one of only five publicly traded companies achieving this milestone. E.l.f. Beauty, Inc. owns E.l.f. Cosmetics and trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol ELF. The beauty company operates with a distributed ownership structure where institutional investment firms hold the majority stake,…

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