美国内战之后,一个名叫JohnQ.Gant的人回到了他的家乡美国中部北卡罗莱纳州,在一家纱厂找了份工作。并在19世纪70年代,他买下企业的全部股份,到1880年他拥有了整个企业。面对来自北方激烈的竞争,JohnQ.Gant在一件事情上投入巨资:那就是市场上最好、最尖端的技术。而他的竞争对手忽视了这一点。于是,在19世纪后期,这家公司,成为南部第一 After the American Civil War, a man named JohnQ.Gant returned to his hometown of Central North Carolina to take a job at a mill. And in the 1870s he bought all the shares of the firm and by 1880 he owned the entire firm. In the face of fierce competition from the North, JohnQ.Gant invested heavily in one thing: the best and most sophisticated technology on the market. His competitors ignored this. Thus, in the late 19th century, the company became the first in the South