BACD Accelerator Team
Wenda joined the BACD in 2008 as Start Up Consultant and Young Entrepreneur Program Manager. As the BACD ‘start-up’ specialist,she facilitates our ‘How to Start A Small Business’ seminars and provides one-on-one consultation to start -ups who...
A graduate from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Ryan Ounjian joined the Business Advisory Centre Durham in the fall of 2009 with a degree in Business, specializing with honours in Marketing.
As Business Information...
2 Articles • Page 1 of 1
Home»BACD Accelerator Team
Inventors
The first modern brassiere to receive a patent was the one invented in 1913 by a New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob. Caresse Crosby was the business name Mary Phelps Jacob used for her brassiere production. However, running a business was not enjoyable to Jacob and she soon sold the brassiere patent to the Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for $1,500. Warner (the bra-makers, not the movie-makers) made over fifteen million dollars from the bra patent over the next thirty years.
