Langile Corporation

Langile Corporation was a major mass media and entertainment conglomerate and large retailer and consumer goods corporation that owned Warren Langile Media and formerly ATBW Label Networks, and the Langile Consumer Brand. The company was split off on May 30, 2003, with Langile Mediaworks Division being its successor and Langile Consumer Branding being spun-off from the former company's consumer goods division.

History
The company was originally made to hold Langile Studios, later alongside Spade Lawn Mowers, Eric Lawn Mowers, Langile Motor Company, Eric Motor Company, and later ATBW Label Networks. It also held the Langile Corporation Brand Division, which was a brand name used by the company, largely used on Langile Corporation's consumer products (pre-2003). While running ATBW, Langile also manufactured products; record players, internal combustion minicars, and newspapers, and once even held Langile Records until it was broken up in 1987, but was used to put songs on players throughout its early life.

While Eric Langile was raising Eric Langile II and Warren Langile in the 1920's, he saw an opportunity to create a cartoon character, Amden in 1928, which would eventually become a fashion character 90 years later in the 2010's. His second kid was named after his fourth employee's last name, which was Warren, who he and Eric eventually were responsible for being the founders of Warren Langile Media in 1937 as a media company, initially on radio.

In 1929, Eric needed to figure out how to keep his studio successful, and as such the first four employees (hence ATBW's meaning in its credentials as representing their last names) wanted to use Zach The Stick Person as their mascot, which would be present in their first logo in 1930 and would remain this way for many decades. He would eventually appear in One Way Or Another in 1935.

During WWII, production of TV and Radio were both suspended and the company switched to making war-based weapons, while ATBW Label Networks would continue producing short films. Production of TV shows would resume in 1945.

During these times, Eric was also focused on records through his record label and tried to keep his companies under it as strong as ATBW. He eventually started a store selling his records and electronics under Langile Store, which would live on to be an electronics store throughout the 1930's. ATBW had already grown successfully after being a division of Langile Corporation. He also sold Spade Lawn Mowers in the store and other consumer brands.

He eventually began struggling in the 1960's due to new companies such as Walmart and other new chains at the time, which prompted ATBW Store in 1963 selling all ATBW franchises, which were only sold there. This allowed them to step up with new players and eventually other retail stores opening up in the 1970's and 1980's. ATBW eventually started buying companies, with their first one being Pido's Pizza in 1980, which gave them only little benefit in surviving. Additionally, new tech companies like Apple, were also blooming then, thus Langile Corporation having to find new ways to keep up. ATBW had sold the A-Tron aperture grille CRT since 1950, prompting Langile Corporation to make branded versions of it under Eric, Langile, Spade, and Warren brands to continue staying caught up, though this pretty much was the same TV as it functioned exactly like the original ATBW sets.

In 1990, ATBW launched ATBW Blog, an online video, photo, game, and blog service, which was eventually found to be their key answer to their problems the decade prior. They eventually bought more companies in the 1990's, with Lifeworks Inc., EAPL Inc., and Escade Corporation in 1994, and CLP Network in 1996, and eventually kept buying more companies during Langile Corporation's last full decade of existence before the split in 2003.

2002 was the last official year of Langile Corporation's existence and service. It was split into Langile Mediaworks Division (until 2019) and Langile Consumer Branding (until 2013) on May 30, 2003.

Antitrust Issues
Throughout the 20th century, both Langile Corporation and it's former subsidiary ATBW Label Networks dealt with several antitrust issues, notably it's feud in 1945 after being forced to shutter ATBW Store & Grille, which had over 13,000 locations, with one being sold off and retaining its name.

It had not only been a major force of the film and media industry, but also the consumer goods industry as well, which made Langile Corporation almost a monopoly-like company.