[coredog64]

The founding date for the original REO. I don't think they have an unbroken line back to the original

[Animats]

These new guys don't. The descendant of the original REO is Nucor Steel. REO owned a steel roofing company, and through a strange chain of events, that unit became the biggest steel company in the US.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor