Companies

In Rochester several companies have their headquarter.

• Eastman Kodak - Printing and photography
• Bausch & Lomb - Contact lens care & eye health
• Rohrbach Brewing Company - Microbrewery
• Carestream Health - Health equipment and technology
• Genesee Brewing Company - Brewery
• North American Breweries - Alcoholic beverage company
• Rochester Midland Corporation - Chemical manufacturing

Here you can find more informations about Eastman Kodak and about Bausch & Lomb.

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Rochester and his Economy

Rochester calls itself the "World's Image Centre" which is true in industrial and academic point of view. In the year 1853 John Bausch and Henry Lomb opened a small shop for optical devices. The result was later a global company for ophthalmic surgical and contact lens. Bausch & Lomb advertise themselves as "Eye Care Company" and are known outside of health care for the "Ray-Ban-glasses".

In the 1880s a bank employee named George Eastman experimented with photographic materials in his mother's kitchen. These experiments eventually led to the Eastman Kodak Company. The Xerox Corporation was founded in 1906 in Rochester.The prosperity of Kodak promoted the growth of the city until the 1960s. Then the town got to feel difficult economic change. This negative image of the city tries to get away today.

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Rochester and the history

The natives of the Seneca tribe of Indians called the Genesee the "river of many cases". It was also the river and in particular the 30 meter high waterfall located in the city center, which contributed to the early industrialization of Rochester. Between the arrival of the first white settlers in 1789 in Rochester and the construction of the Erie Canal in 1823 was a flourishing city not to see. Only the end of construction of the canal changed everything. The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes with lower capital Albany and the Hudson River to New York City and led by a continuing boom in the city.

More about Rochester

Rochester is the county seat of Monroe County in the U.S. state of New York. Rochester is at the mouth of the Genesee River to Lake Ontario and has 212.481 inhabitants. The city is also called City of Flowers or The World’s Image Centre. Rochester is home of several well-known colleges and universities, including the University of Rochester, the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Eastman School of Music. The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.

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