What company did Freddie A. Laker's father found in 1966?
Freddie Laker Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982. Known as "Freddie Laker", he was one of the first airline owners to adopt the "no-frills" airline business model that has since proven to be very successful worldwide with companies such as Southwest Airlines, Norwegian Air, Ryanair, easyJet, AirAsia and WestJet.
Johnson Publishing Company Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publishing company founded in November 1942 by businessman John H. Johnson. Headquartered at 200 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Led by its flagship publication, "Ebony", Johnson Publishing is the largest African-American-owned publishing firm in the United States. Johnson Publishing Company also published "Jet" magazine, a weekly magazine from November 1951 until June 2014. The company operates a book division, which has published books such as "The New Ebony Cookbook" and the more controversial "".The company produced the 1954 film "The Secret of Selling the Negro Market", which was designed to encourage advertisers to promote their products and services in the African American media. In 2016, Johnson announced the sale of its publications and the creation of a new publisher by the new owner called "Ebony Media Corp." The specialty cosmetics business will be retained by Johnson.