Singer do Brasil history

The first sewing machine with an eye-pointed needle, invented in 1846 by Elias Howe, seemed on the verge of capturing the public interest, but it, too, required frequent repairs.

By 1850, Singer had gone to Boston with a patented device for carving wood-block type he hoped to sell to type manufacturers.

Singer’s original design, which was the first practical sewing machine for general domestic use, incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch developed by Elias B. Howe, who won a patent-infringement suit against Singer in 1854.

Singer began to market its machines internationally in 1855 and won first prize at the Paris World’s Fair.

In 1860 more than 110,000 sewing machines were produced in the United States alone.

Founded in 1862 in Germany, the company had a history almost as long as Singer's and had built a comparable international reputation.

In 1863 Clark and Singer dissolved their partnership and the company was incorporated as Singer Manufacturing Company after Singer's rather sordid personal life (which eventually resulted in 24 children by four women) came to light.

The combination, which lasted until 1877, when the last patent ran out, licensed 24 sewing machine manufacturers to make the machines for $15 a machine, with Singer and Howe receiving $5 each for every machine sold domestically.

The one setback during this growth and expansion occurred in 1917, when the company's Russian holdings were seized during the Bolshevik Revolution.

In 1918 Singer acquired the Diehl Manufacturing Company to make sewing machine motors.

Singer had hired a lawyer, Donald P. Kircher, to supervise the company's legal affairs in 1948.

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Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958.

In 1959 Carlos embarked on a solo career as a bossa nova musician in the vein of the widely popular Brazilian singer João Gilberto.

Carlos failed to attain similar commercial success, however, and after releasing his first full-length album, Louco por você (1961; “Crazy for You”), he returned to rock music.

By 1963 Singer's share in the United States sewing machine market had increased to 40 percent.

By 1964, when he released the album É proibido fumar (“No Smoking”), he had become recognized throughout Brazil as the leading exponent of a new musical style known as iê-iê-iê (“yeah-yeah-yeah”), which drew from the stylishly primitive upbeat sound of the Anglo-American rock of that era.

Carlos’s irrepressible popularity—bolstered by a top-selling album, Roberto Carlos canta para a juventude (1965; “Roberto Carlos Sings to the Youth”), and a string of hit songs that tapped into the rebellious zeitgeist—swiftly earned him the nickname “the King.”

Although the company reported $2.6 billion in sales for 1974, one Wall Street analyst estimated that Singer's debt had reached $1.1 billion--a staggering price for its acquisition program.

With Michael topping the pop charts as a solo performer with “Ben” and reaching number two with “Rockin’ Robin,” and with the Jackson 5 producing trendsetting dance tracks such as “Dancing Machine,” the family’s string of hits for Motown lasted through 1975.

Flavin managed to reduce the company's $1.1 billion debt by 55 percent after he became president, but in 1979 he took a $130 million write-off on the sewing machine business, which in North America and Europe had fallen off drastically.

In 1980 Singer's aerospace and marine divisions' operating profits increased by 34 percent, to $36 million, due in large part to Singer's role as the nation's leading manufacturer of aircraft simulators, including the one used to train space shuttle astronauts.

In addition, this division won a large contract for helicopters from the Defense Department in 1981.

The first single on the album, “The Girl Is Mine,” an easygoing duet with Paul McCartney, went to number one on the rhythm-and-blues charts and number two on the pop charts in the fall of 1982.

By 1984 Jackson was renowned worldwide as the “King of Pop.” His much anticipated Victory reunion tour with his brothers was one of the most popular concert events of 1984.

In 1986 Singer spun off its sewing machine division as a separate company called SSMC Inc.

Its stock price was driven down by the announcement of a $20 million loss in July 1987, which it attributed to development costs for several new aerospace products.

Between July and October 1988 Bilzerian sold eight of Singer's 12 divisions, for about $2 billion, which tidily covered his debt.

In 1989 Semi-Tech Global purchased SSMC and began to turn the company around.

Then, in 1991, the company offered shares to the public on the New York Stock Exchange.

His reputation was seriously damaged in 1993 when he was accused of child molestation by a 13-year-old boy he had befriended; a civil suit was settled out of court.

In 1994 Jackson secretly married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, but their marriage lasted less than two years.

In an effort to eliminate redundancies and thus reduce costs, Singer acquired Pfaff in 1997 for $157.5 million.

In 1999 Singer continued with the program by selling its Taiwan operations for $58.6 million.

While he remained an international celebrity, his image in the United States was slow to recover, and it suffered even more in November 2003 when he was arrested and charged with child molestation.

After a 14-week trial that became something of a media circus, Jackson was acquitted in 2005.

On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, California, at age 50.

In 2011 Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal doctor, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.