BRAAS Company
BRAAS HISTORY
2016
1) BRAAS company is acquired by Motion Industries
2) The Olympic Games come to South America, with Rio de Janeiro as the host city.
2015
1) BRAAS launches Instrumentation and Control Initiative
2) Seattle Seahawks win then immediately lose Superbowl 49. New England Patriots crowned champions.
3) BRAAS Company acquires Control Resources Inc. of Salisbury, NC
2014
Rosetta spacecraft becomes the first to land on a comet
2012
1) BRAAS achieves 100% ESOP
2) Michel Phelps becomes winningest athlete in Olympic history with 22 medals (18 Gold)
2011
BRAAS purchases SiCRON
2008
1) Pop icon Michael Jackson dies
2) US Housing bubble bursts amid financial crisis
2006
1) BRAAS establishes sales branch in IA/NE
2) Pluto gets demoted to a planetoid, thus sparking a new "when I was your age..." adage
2005
BRAAS opens Chicago Branch Office
2004
1) NASA Rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, begin exploration of Mars (or an Orlando movie studio depending on what you believe)
2) BRAAS recognized as world's largest DVT Distributor
3) The social networking website Facebook was launched
2001
September 11th terrorist attacks and the beginning of the "War on Terror"
2000
1) BRAAS signs DENSO Robotics, becoming one of the first industrial distributors to handle robotics
2) Y2K fails to materialize, leading to surplus of used generators on Craigslist
1999
1) BRAAS purchases Kershaw Automation in Oldsmar, FL (later to become BRAAS FL)
2) The company surpasses $40M
3) Craigslist is founded
1995
1) Wislawa Szymborska wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Read it?
2) BRAAS expands into Machine Vision with Dickerson Vision Technologies (later to become DVT)
1994
BRAAS receives ISO 9002 certification - and goes on to document why we don't need it
1993
The Internet expands with a little something called the World Wide Web
1992
BRAAS installs 2nd and current ERP System
1990
1) BRAAS opens Appleton WI office
2) The 1st photograph of entire solar system is taken by Voyager 1
1988-89
The Berlin Wall falls and the USSR disappears. Americans learn of numerous "-stans" and another "Georgia"
1987
BRAAS celebrates their first $1M sales month in February
1986
1) The company gets their first fax machine
2) Jim Braas creates the ESOP and retires, selling the company to his employees
1984
BRAAS opens Milwaukee Branch with 6 employees
1983
1) BRAAS moves on to IBM System 36 "ERP" Accounting System with 2, count 'em, 2 processors (4MHz & 1MHz)
2) Chrysler unveils two minivans, the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, to the public
1980
John Lennon is assassinated
1979
Revolution in Iran and the beginning of the hostage crisis
1978
Revolution in Iran and the beginning of the hostage crisis
1977
Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated
1975
Microsoft founded
1974
1) BRAAS launches Motion Control Division with Superior Electric and hires their first Applications Engineer. The company also surpasses $2M in sales.
2) First planet Mercury flyby (Mariner 10)
1973
President Nixon resigns over Watergate
1969
1) Apollo 11: Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon
2) BRAAS surpasses $1M in sales
1965
Bob Dylan releases "Like a Rolling Stone"
1962
Mariner 2 does the first planetary flyby (Venus)
1961
JE BRAAS Company is founded by Jim Braas selling Power Transmission and Pneumatic Equipment
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