FMC Corporation is a chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. FMC employs over 4,800 people world wide, and had gross revenues of US$3.115 billion in 2008. Founded in 1883 as the Bean Spray Pump Company in Los Gatos, California by John Bean. The company's first product was a piston pump. Bean invented the pump to spray insecticide on the many fruit orchards in the area. A Bean sprayer is on display at the Forbes Mill museum there. Bean Avenue in downtown Los Gatos is named after John Bean. In 1928, Bean Spray Pump purchased Anderson-Barngrover Co. and... Sprague-Sells, and changed its name to Food Machinery Corporation, and began using the initials FMC. FMC received a contract to design and build landing vehicles tracked for the United States War Department in 1941. FMC also built the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle as well as the XR311 at its former facility in Santa Clara, California. The troubled development of the Bradley was satirized in the 1998 HBO movie The Pentagon Wars. In the movie FMC was fictionalized as A.O.C corporation.
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| NYSE symbol: | FMC |
| Founded: | 1883 |
| Headquarters: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Annual revenue: | $3,115,300,000 |
| Net income: | $304,600,000 |
| Operating income: | $500,700,000 |
| Market cap: | $4,100,000,000 |
| Industries: | Chemical Manufacturing, Chemical industry |