Frederick Gilbert Bourne

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Frederick Gilbert "Commodore" Bourne (1851-1919), was President of the Singer Manufacturing Company (Singer Corporation), between 1889 and 1905. He made the business "perhaps the first modern multinational industrial enterprise of any nationality."[citation needed] Bourne greatly expanded global production as well as international sales of the Singer sewing machine. Bourne is also remembered as the "world-wide pioneer of installment selling" and "among the most important innovators in building vertically integrated firms."[citation needed] Bourne built Dark Island Castle on one of the Thousand Islands.

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