Today, going to the supermarket to buy whatever we need is a commonplace activity. It seems perfectly normal to us that in a single location, we can find thousands of different items. If we look around our homes, we can see a wide variety of products that facilitate our lives and make them more pleasant. How many different items do we find necessary to our daily lives? How many businesses are needed to produce these items? How much work must be done be done to ensure that these products are available? Over the past two centuries, thousands of businesses have developed products with specific characteristics to satisfy the needs of our modern, complex society. These businesses have known how to take advantage of advances in science and technology, applying them to products used by millions of people. But how do these products emerge? When and where do these businesses appear? Each item found on the shelves has a story, a business, and a brand name behind its product quality. Here are five of these stories.—Clío TV