Company Profile Directory

AlBaraka Islamic Bank (AIB) is a leading of Islamic bank in Pakistan and has operated in the country as branches of AlBaraka Islamic Bank Bahrain since 1991. It is a leading provider of banking in compliance with Shari’ah principles and has 18 branches in 10 major cities of Pakistan.

State Grid Corporation of China is the largest electric power provider in China, formerly know as "State Power Corporation" which include both the electric grid and power plants all over mainland China. It is headquartered in Beijing. After the "Plant - Grid Separation" reform since early 2000s, State Grid Corp. operate power transmission, distribution and other assets of power grid. The power plants separated from State Power Co. were divided by five "power generation groups".

Triple Canopy, a mercenary company created out of nothing by a couple of U.S. Army Special Forces veterans, has benefited from the more notorious reputation of its rival Xe (formerly Blackwater). It gradually built its U.S. government business in Iraq (and elsewhere) and in April 2009 was chosen by the Obama Administration to take over a $1 billion Iraq contract that had been held by Blackwater. Triple Canopy’s record is far from spotless, however.

Burson-Marsteller (B-M) offers the full range of PR services including government relations, crisis management, issues and reputation management, brand building, product marketing, and communications training. These services are delivered by seven ‘practice’ areas within the company: advertising/creative, brand marketing, corporate/financial, healthcare, media, public affairs and technology. Burson-Marsteller is a part of Young & Rubicam Brands, a subsidiary of WPP.

Building brands is at the core of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide's activities. The company emphasizes it uses a holistic approach to brand building, touching every contact point a consumer might have with the brand. It could be the packaging, merchandising, and advertisements on billboards, television, radio or the Web. The company even uses public relations to create a more conductive environment for the brand.

In two decades, IAP Worldwide Services has grown from an obscure start-up in South Carolina to one of the U.S. largest military contractors providing services in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taking advantage of the Pentagon’s embrace of outsourcing, IAP has focused on providing the armed forces with such mundane necessities as food, water, power, medical supplies and shelter.

IAP was founded by a former Army logistics officer and has filled its executive ranks with numerous high-ranking military officers passing through the revolving door into the private sector.

Gelmart Industries , Inc. is one of the largest privately owned direct manufacturer of intimate apparel in the world. The company manufacturers and distributes lingerie that is sold in department stores, mass merchants and specialty stores nationwide. Gelmart also serves as a contract manufacturer for other brands, and has a showroom in Manhattan where it employs more than 20 workers. Its clients include Playtex, Wal-Mart and Liz Claiborne.

Arysta produces chemicals and recently registered the new fumigant, methyl iodide with the EPA. Methyl iodide has been proven to cause cancer in lab rats, and is now proposed to be used as an insecticide on "strawberries, tomatoes and peppers, ornamentals, turf, trees, and vines." The approval of this chemical has been widely opposed.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the largest of the Big Four accounting firms, with 770 offices in 150 countries. The firm provides audit and assurance, tax advisory, and consulting services to large corporations and other clients.

According to its website the firm is "structured as a network of member firms, connected through membership in PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited." PwC was formed by the merger of Price Waterhouse with Coopers & Lybrand in 1998.

One of the largest private economic conglomerates in Brazil, the Votorantim Group has large positions in cement and concrete, mining and metals (aluminum, zinc, nickel and steel), as well as paper and pulp production. Described by the Wall Street Journal as "a tropical style General Electric," Votorantim also produces concentrated orange juice and specialty chemicals, and is involved in a number of electric generation projects (often to service its own industrial operations).

JBS-Friboi operates in the Food segment (fresh meat, processed and canned products), Cattle Raising (cattle raising ranches), Transportation and the Hygiene and Cleaning industry. The brands Friboi, Maturatta, Swift and Anglo are available in supermarkets all over Brazil. There are more than 70 types of meat cuts and different types of canned and processed food, from the very Brazilian "feijoada" (black bean stew with different kinds of meat), corn, peas, canned vegetables, to ready-prepared beef cuts and industrialized products.

Vimta Labs is an India contract research organization (CRO) based out of Hyderabad.

Maytas Infra Limited (MIL) is a Hyderabad (India) based construction and infrastructure development company. Promoted by the now-discredited Satyam Computer Services Ltd's founder and former chairman B. Ramalinga Raju, Maytas Infra was at the centre of the Satyam financial scam which unravelled after Satyam's failed bid to acquire Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties.

MM Mining, a Bahamas-based firm with Indian owners, has signed an agreement with The Togolese Government to extract bauxite on the Agou Mountain and elsewhere in Togo. It is a Public Limited Company with a capital of approximately 1.5 billion CFA francs as of 2007. The company sent attendees to the AMEC mining conference. MM Mining intends to invest US $41 Million in mineral extraction throughout Togo, as of 2007.

Shakti Industries Pvt ltd is a manufacturer and exporter of iron castings. The Company, located in Kolkata, India, was established in 1982 to manufacture quality castings for the local industry. It has a foundry in Haora, India. In the early nineties it entered the export market. Shakti manufactures and exports gray iron castings, such as manhole covers, grates, valves, inlets, meter boxes and axle pulleys.

The company is equipped to manufacture American standard ASTM, European EN 124 and also manufactures custom products. It exports to the USA and UK.

Group 4 Falck A/S is the world’s second largest security services provider and the industry's largest employer, with more than 230,000 employees in more than 85 countries. With its 2002 acquisition of the Wackenhut Corporation, Group 4 Falck has increased its profit margin by 40 %, almost doubled the number of its employees, and increased its market share dramatically. Securitas (www.securitas.com.) still claims to be the largest security company in the world.

Begun in 1987, Satyam Computer Services is the fourth largest IT Company in India, providing consulting, outsourcing, engineering and software solutions. Satyam describes itself as a global business and information technology company servicing more than 20 industries. The company went public in 1991 and is also listed in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Satyam says its revenues crossed the $1 billion (Rs 4800 cr @ Rs 48/$1) in 2006 making it the youngest IT company in India to reach this milestone.

Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction was the first ship building company in Korea, established in 1937 at Youngdo, Pusan as "Chosun Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.", according to their website. The company builds everything from hospitals to apartment buildings through its construction segment and patrol boats to oil tankers through its shipbuilding segment.

KPMG is one of the Big Four accounting firms. KPMG LLP, is the U.S. limited liability partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative.

Through its member firms, KPMG provides audit, tax, and other advisory services.

ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) is the largest publicly traded integrated petroleum and natural gas company in the world, and the world's largest company measured by revenues ($404.5 billion in 2007) and market capitalization ($517.92 billion on July 20, 2007).

Barrick Gold Corporation, the largest pure gold mining company in the world, is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It has four regional business units (RBU's) located in Australia, Africa, North America, and South America. Barrick is currently undertaking mining and exploration projects in Papua New Guinea, the United States, Canada, Australia, Peru, Chile, Russia, South Africa, Argentina, and Tanzania. On January 20, 2006, Barrick acquired a majority share of Placer Dome.

The Lennar Corporation is a Florida based developer, and one of the largest builders and financiers of single family homes in the United States. The company was founded in 1954 (as F&R Builders) and owns the brands Cambridge, Greystone, Lennar, NuHome, Patriot, U.S. Home, and Village Builders.

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Julius Baer Group is a Swiss banking firm which is the parent company of Bank Julius Bär, a traditional private bank based in Zurich, Switzerland, which dates back to the year 1890 when it was founded by the famous banker Julius Bär. The Julius Baer Group manages substantial assets for private and institutional clients from all over the world.

Newmont Mining Corporation, based in Denver, Colorado, USA, is one of the world's largest producers of gold. The company released approximately 33 tons of mercury into the environment in Indonesia between 2000 and 2005. As a result the Indonesian government sued the company for $133.6 million USD, charging that they had damaged the health and environment of Indonesia. The Indonesian government also launched a criminal probe against six Newmont executives.

Chipotle is a burrito chain who has made a name for itself as a company that aspires to be a leader in the sustainable food movement. Its motto is "Food With Integrity" and claims that by "working back along the food chain" it encourages healthy production of vegetables and raising of animals.

Currently, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group of tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida, is leading a campaign against Chipotle for its refusal to meet with them to improve farmworking conditions for the tomatoes Chipotle purchases.

Established in 1911, Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (Nissui) is a commercial fishing and marine product procurement operation. It's goal is to "Establish a global supply chain of marine products." The company is the second-largest of its kind in Japan and owns Gorton's, a US frozen seafood company.

PacifiCorp Energy operates 69 generation facilities in the six states that Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power operate in, plus two facilities in Montana, three in Colorado, and one in Arizona. Since 2006, PacifiCorp has been a wholly owned subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings, itself an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway.

Diageo plc (LSE: DGE, NYSE: DEO) is the largest multinational beer, wine and spirits company in the world. The Company produces and distributes a collection of branded premium spirits, beer and wine. It produces and distributes a range of premium brands, including Smirnoff vodka, Johnnie Walker Scotch whiskies, Captain Morgan rum, Baileys Original Irish Cream liqueur, JeB scotch whiskey, Tanqueray gin and Guinness stout.

Founded in 1976, Anteon is an information technology and engineering company focusing on intelligence and national defense. Anteon is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia as a private contractor. It's main client is the U.S government with more than 90 percent of its revenues from Homeland Security, Intelligence Agencies, and the Pentagon.

American Apparel is a clothing company with the assurance of “sweatshop-free” clothing. It was started by a young entrepreneur Dov Charney with the hopes of attracting a market base of young, hip urbanites with a mind towards labor rights and ethical business practices. American Apparel now has stores in L.A., New York, and Chicago, among other locations, with 4,500 employees that receive living wages and benefits.

Headquartered in Atlanta Georgia, AFC Enterprises operates the #2 fast food chain specializing in chicken, the infamous "Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits". Currently, there are over 1,900 Popeye's locations in the United States and and over 2 dozen locations in other countries. AFCE owns 55 locations themselves and franchises the rest.

ALZA Corporation is a pharmaceutical and medical systems company founded in 1968 by Dr Alejandro Zaffaroni; the company's name is a portmanteau of his name. In addition to a variety of pharmaceuticals, ALZA makes a range of drug delivery systems. In May 2001 ALZA was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$10.5 billion. Alza is the maker of many familiar brands such as Acuvue, Aveeno, Band-Aid, Carefree, Clean & Clear, Johnson's Baby, K-Y, Neutrogena, OneTouch, Rembrandt, Stayfree, and the infamous Tylenol.

The Stericycle headquarters are located in Lake Forest, IL. Stericycle processes and disposes of medical waste.

Sadia S.A. is a major Brazilian food producer. It is among the world’s leading producers of frozen foods, and is Brazil’s main exporter of meat-based products. As of 2006, Sadia has about 12 industrial plants in Brazil that together produce over 1.3 million tons of meat-based products raning from chicken, turkey, pork and beef, as well as pasta, margerines, desserts, and other products. The company manages to provide to over 70 thousand direct points of sale in Brazil and around 200 foreign clients in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadia

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Burger King, based in Miami, Florida, USA, is the world's second largest hamburger chain (behind McDonald's). It has restaurants in about 65 countries. Founded in 1954, Burger King is owned in part by the investment firms TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs, which each own about 25% of the company.

Sterlite Industries (India) Limited and its consolidated subsidiaries (the “Company” or “Sterlite”) are engaged in the businesses of mining, smelting, and refining non-ferrous metals in India and Australia. SIIL is a majority-owned subsidiary of Twin Star Holdings Limited (“Twin Star”), which is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc (“Vedanta”), a public limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom and listed on the London Stock Exchange. Twin Star held 57 percent of SIIL’s equity as of Sept. 30, 2008.

Deloitte & Touche is one of the Big Four accounting firms. It is made up of a series of national partnerships owned by the partners in each country. The local firms are affiliated through a global network that administers the sharing of a common brand name, standards, and procedures. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss verein (German for "union") or membership organization, oversees Deloitte's international organization. Deloitte Touche Tomatsu does not perform any audits or other services for outside clients.

Perdigão is one of the largest food companies and exporters in Latin America, dedicated to raising, producing and slaughtering poultry. The company also processes frozen pastas, soybeans and their derivatives, and distributes frozen vegetables. Its core business is directed to chilled and frozen food. It all started in 1934, when two families of Italian immigrants have established the company in the countryside of Santa Catarina, Southern region in Brazil, where the geographical and climatic conditions are perfect for agriculture.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is the largest private employer in the world and the fourth largest utility or commercial employer, trailing the People's Liberation Army of China, the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, and the Indian Railways.

Bank of America is the biggest bank in America and one of the ten largest banks in the world. BofA has been the target of much recent criticism for its extensive involvement in the subprime lending markets that precipitated the current recession and for a shotgun merger with Merrill Lynch that critics say damaged the bank's share value.

ING Groep N.V. (known as ING Group) is a financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management services. ING once stood for Internationale Nederlanden Groep.

As of 2003, ING covers 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients in 50 countries with a workforce of over 115,000 people. It has offices in Canada, Peru, Chile, Spain, France, Italy, Romania, Mexico, the United States, Germany, UK, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Taiwan and Australia.

Allianz is a large financial service provider headquartered in Munich, Germany. By revenue, it is the largest FSP in the world. Its core and focus is on the insurance business. Allianz is the biggest insurance company in Germany and one of the largest in the world.

Siemens AG is Europe's largest engineering conglomerate. Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany. The company is a conglomerate of six major business divisions: Automation & Control, Power, Transportation, Medical, Information & Communication, and Lighting.

Dexia is a Belgian-French financial institution, specialized in public finance. It was founded in 1996 through the merger of Crédit Communal de Belgique/Gemeentekrediet van België (founded 1860) and Crédit Local de France (founded 1987). The Dexia Group was founded as a dual-listed company, but in 1999 the Belgian entity took over the French entity to form one company. Dexia is a member of the BEL20, CAC 40, and LuxX indices. The company is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. In August 2005, BusinessWeek rated Samsung as the Number 1 consumer electronics brand in the world with revenue topping 89.5$ billion. Headquartered in Suwon, South Korea, it is part of the Korean Samsung Group, operating in approximately over 100 countries.

E.ON, based in Düsseldorf, Germany, is an energy corporation, one of the 30 members of the DAX stock index of major German companies. It came into existence through the 2000 merger of VEBA and VIAG, its chief executive officer (Vorstandsvorsitzender) is Wulf H. Bernotat.

E.ON is one of the major public utility companies in Europe and the world’s largest investor-owned energy service provider. It has, for example, acquired Sydkraft in Sweden and Powergen in the United Kingdom. These have now been rebranded to E.ON Sverige and E.ON UK respectively.

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., is a semi-public Brazilian oil company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company was founded in 1953 and is a former Brazilian oil monopoly. Its output is more than 2 million Barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. Berkshire Hathaway's core business is insurance, including property and casualty insurance, reinsurance and specialty nonstandard insurance. The Company averaged a 25%+ annual return to its shareholders for the last 25 years while employing large amounts of capital and minimal debt.

Warren Buffett is the company's chairman and CEO.

Carrefour SA is a French international supermarket chain, with a global network of outlets. It is the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue and sales figures after Wal-Mart. Carrefour operates mainly in the European Union, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, but also has shops in North Africa and Asia.

Crédit Agricole SA is the largest banking group in France, second largest in Europe and the sixth largest in the world by Tier 1 capital according to The Banker magazine. It is also part of the CAC 40 stock market index.

JP Morgan Chase is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. The company, headquartered in New York City, is one of the leaders in investment banking, retail financial services, asset and wealth management and private equity. JPMorgan Chase is currently the third largest banking institution in the United States, behind Bank of America and Citigroup. The hedge fund unit of JPMorgan Chase is the largest hedge fund in the United States with $34 billion in assets as of 2007.

With 70 million metric tonnes of steel capacity, Mittal is the world's largest steel company, generating $31 billion in annual revenues, $7 billion in profits, and employing 165,000 in 14 countries. The company is controlled by Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (aka the "Carnegie from Calcutta"), one of the richest men in the world.

The biggest part of Mr. Mittal's existing operations is LNM Holdings.

Tesco plc is a UK-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It is the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share, and is the world's third-largest retailer, behind Wal-Mart of the United States and Carrefour of France.

Tesco now controls just over 30% of the grocery market in the UK, approximate to the combined market share of its closest rivals, Asda and Sainsbury's.

Deutsche Bank AG is a bank operating worldwide. Its headquarters, the Deutsche Bank Twin Towers, are located in Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Josef Ackermann is its CEO and Chairman of the Group Executive Committee, Dr. Clemens Börsig is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Deutsche Bank, ranked by revenues and profits, is one of the largest investment banks in the world.

Deutsche Post AG is a German post, logistics and courier headquartered in Bonn, previously the German state-owned mail monopoly. Today Deutsche Post AG is the world's largest logistics company operating under the tradename "Deutsche Post World Net".

Électricité de France (EDF) is the main electricity generation and distribution company in France. It was founded on April 8, 1946 as a result of the nationalization of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors by the Communist Minister of Industrial Production Marcel Paul. Until November 19, 2004 it was a government corporation, but it is now a limited-liability corporation under private law (société anonyme). The government plans to float 30% of its shares on the stock market by the end of 2005, and retain 70% government ownership.

LG Group is a large South Korean conglomerate (chaebol), which produces electronics, mobile phones, and petrochemical products and operates subsidiaries like LG Electronics.

The Kroger Co. operates retail food and drug stores, multi-department stores, jewelry stores and convenience stores throughout the United States. The Company also manufactures and processes some of the food for sale in its supermarkets. It reported over US$60 billion in sales during its most recent fiscal year and is the top grocery retailer in the country and third-place general retailer in the country, behind Wal-Mart and The Home Depot.

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Lukoil is Russia's largest oil company and its largest producer of oil. In 2006, it produced 95.2 million metric tons of oil. Its international upstream subsidiary is called LUKOIL Overseas Holding. Headquartered in Moscow, LUKOIL is the second largest public company (next to ExxonMobil) in terms of proven oil and gas reserves (ca. 20 bn boe by SPE standards; some 1.3% of global oil reserves).

CVS Caremark Corporation, is an integrated pharmacy services provider, combining one of the U.S.'s leading pharmaceutical services companies with the country’s largest pharmacy chain. The company manages more than one billion prescriptions per year, more than any other prescription benifet manager. CVS Caremark provides pharmacy services through its 6,200 CVS/pharmacy stores; its pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services; its retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic; and its online pharmacy, CVS.com.

The Hyundai Motor Company, a division of the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, is South Korea's largest and the world's sixth largest Automaker. Its headquarters are in Seoul, South Korea. In Ulsan, South Korea, Hyundai operates the world's largest integrated automobile manufacturing facility, which is capable of producing 1.6 million units annually. The Hyundai logo, a slanted, stylized 'H,' is said to be symbolic of two people (the company and customer) shaking hands. Hyundai means "modernity" in Korean.

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Sears Holdings Corporation is the fourth largest retailer in the United States, behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, and Kroger. It was formed in 2005 with the purchase of Sears, Roebuck and Company of Hoffman Estates, Illinois by Kmart Holdings Corporation of Troy, Michigan.

The company operates 3,800 retail locations under the mastheads of Sears, Sears Grand, Sears Essentials, Sears Hardware, Kmart, Big Kmart, Super Kmart, The Great Indoors, Orchard Supply Hardware, and Lands' End stores.

UBS AG is a diversified global financial services company, with its main headquarters in Basel & Zürich, Switzerland. It is the world's largest manager of private wealth assets and is the second-largest bank in Europe. UBS has a major presence in the U.S., with its American headquarters located in New York City's Manhattan borough, Weehawken, New Jersey, and Stamford, Connecticut. UBS's retail offices are located throughout the United States, and in over 50 other countries.

HBOS plc is a banking and insurance group in the United Kingdom, the holding company for Bank of Scotland plc, which operates the Bank of Scotland and Halifax brands; HBOS Australia, owner of BankWest; and HBOS Insurance & Investment Group Limited, the group's insurance division. The corporate headquarters of the group are in Edinburgh, Scotland; the old office of the Bank of Scotland. Operational headquarters are based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England; the old head office of Halifax.

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Saint-Gobain is a multinational corporation founded in France during 1665 with the purpose of producing mirrors. Saint-Gobain rapidly expanded internationally in the early nineties under the leadership of Jean-Louis Beffa. Today, the corporation includes five sectors focusing on manufacturing various high-performance materials, construction products, packaging containers, and flat glass. The company's subsidiaries are active globally and expanding.

Until recently, the European Aerospace, Defense and Space Company (EADS) was known mainly as the parent of the multinational aircraft company Airbus. When the U.S. Air Force announced in February 2008 that it would give a massive contract for new refueling tanker planes to a joint venture of Northrop Grumman and EADS, the European connection helped spark an uproar over the award, which many thought should have gone to the incumbent supplier, Boeing, which has made perennial complaints about the subsidies given to EADS and Airbus by European governments.

Microsoft has been ranked 15th in the world's top 500 companies and its operating software has driven 93% of the world's desktop computers since 1991. At its peak, the company had a market value roughly equal to the gross domestic product of Spain. Its Office software, encompassing a suite of e-mail, word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools, dominates 90% of the market and bring in $9 billion annually, a third of the company's revenue.

Caterpillar Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Famous for their products featuring caterpillar tracks and a distinctive yellow paint scheme, Caterpillar produces a wide range of heavy equipment, mainly engineering and demolition vehicles, including the Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. Among other controversies Caterpillar has been accused of human rights abuses in the Israeli Palestinian conflict by selling demolition equipment to the Israeli Defense Force.

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Aviva plc is the world's fifth-largest insurance group, the biggest insurance group in the UK and the second-largest insurance group in Canada. Worldwide, it trails behind AXA, Allianz, ING and Fortis. It is one of the leading providers of life and pensions products in Europe and has a presence in 25 countries worldwide, notably France and The Netherlands. The company was formerly called CGNU, and was created by a merger of Norwich Union and CGU plc (itself created by the 1998 merger of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2000. The Aviva name was adopted in July 2002.

BT Group Plc is formerly known as "British Telecom" and is the primary phone and Internet provider for the UK.

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation media conglomerate includes cable networks such as Fox, Fox Business Channel, National Geographic and FX; 35 television stations; 175 newspapers -- including the recently-acquired Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and Barron's; other publications including TVGuide and SmartMoney; book publishers HarperCollins; film production companies 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Blue Sky Studios; numerous Web sites including MarketWatch.com, and non-media holdings including the National Rugby League.

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GMAC offers financing to General Motors dealerships and customers, as well as other dealerships. GMAC has also been one of the largest mortgage issuers and servicers in the United States, through its Residential Capital subsidiary, and GMAC insurance sells car and home insurance. GMAC's finance arm also offers financing to middle market businesses.

On November 21 GMAC applied for bank holding status in order to become eligible for federal financial bailout status.

Noble Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the western United States, the Gulf of Mexico, the Middle East, the North Sea and West Africa. Some of its most significant (and most controversial) activity is off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, whose dictator Teodoro Obiang has been accused of using little of the revenue from foreign energy companies to help his own people.

International Paper is an American pulp and paper company, the second largest pulp and paper company in the world. The company produces printing and writing papers, pulp, paperboard and packaging and wood products. It also manufactures specialty items including tissue products; photographic films, papers and equipment; nonwovens; specialty chemicals; and specialty panels and laminated products.

Bridgestone Corporation is based in Tokyo, Japan. The largest subsidiary of Bridgestone is the Bridgestone Americas Holding Inc., which is based in Nashville, TN and includes Firestone. The company is most well known for the production of tires.

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Reliance industries is one of India's largest companies with a profit of US $2.033 billion in 2006. Indian Petrochemicals Corporation and Reliance Industries merged in financial year 2006-2007. In November 2006 the Reliance launched its first retail mega-store, "Reliance Fresh" in Hyderabad, expanding to 96 stores at the end of FY 2006-2007.

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Abbott is a health care products manufacturer whose products extend from nutritional products and laboratory diagnostics to medical devices and pharmaceuticals. The company conducts business in at least 130 countries around the world.

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The company is the world leader in integrated power plant, in power production services and air quality control systems. Alstom works with all energy forms (coal, gas, nuclear, fuel-oil, hydropower, wind). Alstom will provide the conventional island for the future EPR nuclear power plant in France. The Group is also developing CO2 capture processes that could lead to commercial scale in the medium term.

In the field of rail transport, Alstom is the global number one in terms of orders.

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Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include "Kleenex" facial tissue, "Kotex" feminine hygiene products, "Cottonelle" toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, "KimWipes" scientific cleaning wipes, and "Huggies" disposable diapers. Based in Irving, Texas, it has approximately 63,900 employees.

Delphi primarily makes various automobile parts. The company's technology is also sold for computing, communications, consumer electronics, energy and medical applications. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005 and soon thereafter began operating as "debtors-in-possession" under court supervision, with the expectation of emerging from bankruptcy sometime in 2008. The company is a former division of General Motors (GM), separated in 1999.

Goodyear is the third largest tire manufacturers in the world, behind Bridgestone and Michelin. Goodyear operates more than 50 plants worldwide, as well as about 1,800 retail tire and auto centers. The company has sold its Engineered Products division to The Carlyle Group.

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Manpower Inc. is a world leader in the employment services industry; they oversee the entire process of recruitment from selection to training to outplacement. Operating in nearly 78 countries around the world, primarily the third world and developing nations, Manpower effectively replaces the responsibility of companies or corporations to find, profile and train employees.

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'''Sodexo''' (Sodexho Alliance prior to 23 January 2008, Euronext: SW) is a French multinational corporation and one of the largest food services and facilities management companies in the world. It is present in 29,000 sites within eighty countries, earning revenue in 2007 of €13.385 million. Sodexo has two major lines of business: food and facility management services, and service vouchers and cards.

Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian conglomerate, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. Over the years it has been a large manufacturer of regional aircraft, business jets, mass transportation equipment, recreational equipment and a financial services provider. Bombardier is a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate company. Its headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The Federal National Mortgage Association (AKA Fannie Mae) is a public company operating under federal charter and is the US's primary source for mortgage funding, financing one of every five home loans. Fannie Mae buys mortgages from lenders and resells them, transferring risk from lenders and allowing them to offer mortgages to those who may not otherwise qualify. The company was hit hard by the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 and had to be rescued by the Federal Reserve.

Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise (“GSE”) chartered by the U.S. Congress.

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If there is a company that is the face of the recent subprime mortgage fiasco, it is Countrywide and its CEO Angelo Mozilo. On July 1, 2008 Bank of America announced that it completed a full takeover of Countrywide after receiving approval from the Federal Reserve's Board of Directors on June 5. On October 16, 2008, Countrywide announced it would delist its stock.

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Stora Enso Oyj is a Finnish–Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer, formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso-Gutzeit Oy in 1998. It is headquartered in Helsinki, and it has approximately 46,000 employees. In 2002 it was the fifth largest pulp and paper manufacturer in terms of revenue and in 2005 it was the world's largest pulp and paper manufacturer in terms of production capacity. The Finnish State is the biggest shareholder in the company.

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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is a Japanese electronics manufacturer based in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It produces products under a variety of names including Panasonic and Technics. The company was founded by Konosuke Matsushita in 1918 to sell duplex lamp sockets. In 1927, it produced a bicycle lamp, the first product it marketed under the brand name National. Since then, it has become the largest Japanese electronics producer. In addition to electronics, Matsushita offers non-electronic products and services such as home renovation services.

Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008 -- the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, with over $600 billion in assets in its portfolio.

The collapse of Lehman was attributed to its deep investments in subprime and other lower-rated mortgages and related securities.

Syncrude Canada is one of the leading players in the big, dirty business of extracting oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta. It is a joint venture owned by an investment trust and a group of six U.S., Canadian and Japanese oil companies, among them the Canadian subsidiary of ExxonMobil. The company has been targeted by environmental groups because of its large volume of greenhouse gas emissions, but Syncrude has experienced a higher degree of controversy over an incident in 2008 in which some 1,600 ducks were killed at one of the company waste ponds.

One of the world’s largest insurance and financial management companies, AXA offers life and casualty insurance, personal and commercial property insurance, financial services, and asset management. With major markets in the UK, Ireland, U.S., Asia-Pacific, Germany, Japan, Australia and Belgium. The 2009 Fortune Global 500 ranked AXA the 15th largest company in the world based on revenue.

AXA is the holding company of the AXA Group, which operates through five business segments: Life & Savings, Property & Casualty, International Insurance, Asset Management and Banking.

Volkswagen went from Adolf Hitler's pet project -- the "people's car," to a symbol of 1960s counterculture, to one of the world's leading automakers. It is now Europe’s largest carmaker, and with production facilities in 21 countries, it is one of the most globalized players in the industry. In recent years, it has struggled with a corruption scandal and a protracted takeover battle with Porsche in which it finally prevailed.

Alcoa is one of the world's leading producers and managers of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina facilities, and is active in all major aspects of the industry.

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DuPont is the third-largest chemical maker in the U.S., behind only Dow and Exxon Mobil Chemicals. In addition to chemicals, Dupont produces genetically modified seeds, synthetic fibres, coatings, electronics and security devices. DuPont's revenues totalled over $26.6 billion in 2005.

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Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, McDonald's operated 32,000 fast-food restaurants in 2008, serving 47 million customers daily in 118 countries, with total revenues of $25 billion, and 400,000 employees. It primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts. Recently, marketing to concern over health, it added salads, wraps, and fruit.

On September 21, 2008 Morgan Stanley announced that the Federal Reserve had granted it bank holding status, giving it more flexibility to maneuver during the financial crisis gripping the economy. The status also means that it is subject to increased regulatory oversight under the Bank Holding Act.

Founded in 1935, Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York. As one of the top investment banks of it's kind, Morgan has offices in 35 countries with 600 global offices.

Pfizer is the largest and richest pharmaceutical enterprise in the world. Fortune® named Pfizer as the fifth-best ‘wealth-creator’ in America. The company is a global leader in human pharmaceuticals, and also has a large array of consumer health care, confectionery, and animal health care products. In 2000, its revenues equaled $29.6 billion (£20,14bn), eight of Pfizer’s pharmaceutical products attained sales of at least $1 billion (£680.4 million) each.

Prudential Financial, Inc. is a financial services company. As of February, 2008, the Company had approximately $784 billion of assets under management. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company offers an array of financial products and services, including life insurance, mutual funds, annuities, pension and retirement-related services and administration, asset management, banking and trust services, real estate brokerage and relocation services, and, through a joint venture, retail securities brokerage services.

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Verizon is a telecommunications company which has recently come under scrutiny for their role in the domestic wiretapping debacle in the United States. In addition to litigation stemming from the multiple class action lawsuits from domestic wiretapping, Verizon is also under litigious examination for patent infringement, antitrust violations, wage and hour class action lawsuits, and multiple lawsuits regarding the advertising departments sales, billing and collection practices.

Xcel Energy, Inc. is a public utility company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is one of the ten largest electricity and natural gas companies in the United States, providing energy to eight states.

Xcel Energy has been under attack largely because of its plants' contributions to air pollution and climate change. Xcel Energy is the fourth largest single contributer to global warming, spewing 75 million of CO2 a year while banking $7.9 billion in a year.

Production at Canada’s largest petroleum company is dominated by the highly controversial process of extracting crude oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta. Suncor has invested billions of dollars—and plans to invest many billions more—to make North America more energy independent, but uses methods that generate large quantities of the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Suncor, which in 2009 swallowed its competitor Petro-Canada, says it is trying to reduce those emissions, but the company is still a target of frequent climate protests by groups such as Greenpeace.

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L-3 has grown from a motley collection of businesses spun off from Lockheed Martin in 1997 to a $14 billion company that is one of the largest military contractors. It provides a wide range of high-tech electronics and communications services not only to the Pentagon but also to U.S. intelligence agencies. Not all its services are high-tech: the company’s MPRI subsidiary, acquired in 2000, is among the providers of controversial private security services in places such as Iraq. With its 2005 acquisition of Titan Corp., L-3 got into the business of providing translators to assist U.S.

KBR specializes in engineering and construction, and is a major contractor for the US Military. It is a former subsidiary of Halliburton, and is the largest non-union construction company in the United States. KBR is the largest US private employer in Iraq with roughly 20,000 employees and 40,000 subcontractors.

Merck is a top-ten pharmaceutical company. It's current best-selling drugs include Zocor (cholesterol reduction), Fosamax (postmenopausal osteoporosis), Cozaar/Hyzaa (blood pressure) and Singulair (asthma); however, the company is best known for being the manufacturer of Vioxx -- the painkilling drug pulled from the market in 2004.

Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is headquartered in Edina, Minnesota and was founded in 1990 as an offshoot from the Honeywell corporation. ATK provides small-caliber ammunition to military, police, and hunters. In recent years the corporation has been awarded more contracts for guided weapons, which maximize damage to the target while minimizing civilian casualties.

Novartis is a Swiss biotechnology, drug, and consumer products company with a U.S. division. It was formed in 1996 by the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz. Over-the-counter brands include Ex-Lax, Lamisil antifunal agent, Maalox antacid, Nicotinell smoking cessation, Otrivin nasal decongestant, Theraflu for cold and flu, Triaminic for child cough, Bufferin and Excedrin asprin, and No-Doz caffeine. Pharmaceutical brands include Diovan and Lotrel for hypertension and Glivec for Leukemia. The CIBA division makes contact lenses.

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GlaxoSmithKline plc is a British based pharmaceutical, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system (CNS), respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic, oncology, and vaccines products. It also has a Consumer Healthcare operation comprising leading oral healthcare products, nutritional drinks, and over the counter (OTC) medicines.

Dell Computers manufacturers computers and computer-related equipment which it sells directly to the public by phone or internet. The company employed 66,100 people and recorded sales of $55.91 billion in fiscal 2006.

Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio, Texas, with 21,836 employees and annual revenue of more than US$90 billion. The company owns and operates 17 refineries throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3.3 million barrels per day, making it the largest refiner in North America.

This company is now part of Bank of America.

Merrill Lynch was one of the world's largest stock brokerage houses, with offices in 38 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.8 trillion. The company's 2006 revenues were $ 34.6 billion.

The company's logo is the famous bull. The company offers diverse financial services. Of the major investment banks, Merrill is the most active in serving as a brokerage for individual investors.

Suez Environnement is one of a handful of global companies that dominate the contentious business of providing drinking water and waste collection services on a for-profit basis. Operating in about 30 countries, it provides water services to some 76 million people and trash services to 51 million. Suez Environnement was previously a part of the French services conglomerate Suez but was spun off in 2008 when Suez merged with Gaz de France to form GDF Suez, which retains a 35 percent holding in Suez Environnement.

The Dow Chemical Company is the world’s second largest chemical company, behind only BASF. Dow’s primary industries are chemicals, herbicides, pesticides, agricultural sciences and plastics. Dow's main business is supplying chemicals to other industrial and chemical companies. Using oil, coals, natural gas, salt, brine and other basic inputs, Dow makes inorganic chemicals like soda, solvents, and chlorine, and organic chemicals like acetone, ethylene glycol, glycerine, phenols, etc. Dow is also the biggest plastics manufacturer in the world.

Formerly known as British Aerospace, BAE Systems has grown into one of the world’s largest aviation and weapons companies, with major operations not only in the United Kingdom but also in Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and the United States, where it is now one of the Pentagon’s largest contractors. BAE is one of the top producers of armored combat vehicles such as the Bradley Fighting Vehicle (widely used by the U.S. military in Iraq), but the company also produces fighter planes, missiles, nuclear submarines, military electronics and other tools of war.

Cargill is one of the world's agribusiness giants and one of the largest privately held companies based in the United States. It began as a grain trader and has expanded into many forms of food processing and other industries such as steel and coal. Amid soaring commodity prices, Cargill's profits have been growing at an astounding rate.

Cargill is not shy about using its size and power to affect public policy.

Finmeccanica is determined to become one of the world’s leading aerospace and weapons producers. The company, publicly traded but controlled by the Italian government, has spent the past decade forming a complicated web of alliances with Europe’s other players in this field, and now it has its sights set on the huge U.S. military market. It already got a foothold when one of its helicopters was chosen to become the new Marine One used by the U.S. President.

The Honeywell name is most often associated with thermostats, but the company known today as Honeywell International is the result of the takeover of Honeywell Inc. by the conglomerate AlliedSignal in 1999. The old Honeywell was a frequent target of antiwar protests during and after the Vietnam War because of its role in making deadly munitions such as fragmentation bombs.

Marathon, founded as the Ohio Oil Company, has gone through several incarnations over the decades. For a while it was taken over by the Standard Oil Trust, later it was acquired by U.S. Steel, and still later its refining and marketing operations were for a time part of a joint venture with Ashland Oil. Today Marathon is independent and is among the mid-sized oil majors based in the United States. The company has faced controversy in connection with the air pollution caused by its U.S.

Raytheon is essentially a missile supermarket. It sells Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, Maverick air-to-ground missiles, Patriot surface-to-air missiles, Tomahawk submarine-launched cruise missiles and other kinds of deadly projectiles. The company also supplies the Pentagon with science-fiction-sounding weapons such as the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle and Kinetic Energy Interceptors as well as a variety of the electronic components that are so prevalent in modern warfare.

Raytheon made its name producing radar systems during the Second World War.

Stanley Inc. (also known by the name of its subsidiary Stanley Associates) is a rising star among providers of information technology and business process outsourcing services to the U.S. federal government, particularly the Department of Defense, from which it gets about two-thirds of its revenues. The rest comes from civilian agencies ranging from the Department of Justice to the Library of Congress. At the end of its last fiscal year, the company had a contract backlog worth about $975 million.

Over the past decade, Xstrata PLC has used a series of aggressive mergers to grow from an obscure investment vehicle into one of the planet’s largest mining groups, with operations on six continents. Based in Switzerland and listed on the London and Zurich stock exchanges, it is one of the top producers of resources such as chrome, coal, copper, nickel and zinc. Following in the footsteps of older mining giants such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, Xstrata has become embroiled in controversies over its labor, environmental and human rights practices.

One of the last remaining powerful U.S. conglomerates, United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is the parent company of Pratt & Whitney, one of the most famous names in jet engines; Sikorsky, a leader in helicopter production, including the famous (or infamous) Black Hawks; Carrier Corp., the largest supplier of heating and air conditioning systems; Otis, the world’s largest elevator company; and Hamilton Sundstrand, a leading producer of aerospace products. UTC also has a large fire-safety products business based on its acquisition of British firms Chubb PLC and Kidde PLC.

Daimler, one of the world’s leading producers of motor vehicles, dates back to operations set up by the two German engineers widely credited with inventing the automobile. The company’s profile diminished sharply in 2007 when it sold off third-ranking U.S. carmaker, Chrysler, which it had joined in a high-profile merger nine years earlier. Daimler is trying to survive the ongoing crisis in the auto industry with a product line that includes both high-end Mercedes-Benz luxury models and the inexpensive micro compact Smart Car.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company was founded on June 7, 1922, by George J. Mecherle, a retired farmer. It initially concentrated on meeting auto insurance needs of Illinois farmers through a mutual organization owned by the customers. By 1942, the company was the nation's largest auto insurer, a ranking it has held ever since. About one out of every five cars on the road is insured with State Farm®. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is a mutual insurance company and as such does not have any shareholders.

Chevron, once part of the Standard Oil empire, has grown over the past quarter century into the world’s fourth largest petroleum company, thanks to a series of ambitious acquisitions: Gulf Oil in 1984, Texaco in 2001 and Unocal in 2005. The purchase of Texaco brought with it a massive environmental lawsuit that has dragged on for more than a decade. This is only one of a host of controversies surrounding Chevron’s environmental and human rights record around the world.

After suffering a downturn in fortune that nearly caused it to be absorbed by General Motors, Fiat is riding high again. The company has taken control of struggling U.S. automaker Chrysler, and is seeking additional partners as part of a quest to become a “supergroup” that stands a chance of surviving the brutal competition in the auto industry—a quest that includes taking a hard line with unions at home and abroad.

DynCorp does not like to be compared to controversial contractors such as Blackwater and KBR, but the company does exactly what they do. It performs a wide range of functions for U.S. government agencies, including security and support services in war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. While DynCorp is not quite as well known as those other private military companies, it has had its share of scandals.

Decatur, Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is one of the world's largest agricultural conglomerates. Its business is primarily structured around the processing and trading of oilseeds (e.g. soy, palm), corn, wheat and cocoa. ADM is also a leading manufacturer of protein meal, corn sweeteners, flour, ethanol and vegetable oil.

BP (formerly British Petroleum) has become one of the world’s most controversial giant corporations because of its involvement in a series of major environmental and industrial accidents. The company has been the target of intense criticism for its role in the April 2010 explosion at a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and caused an underwater leak that has spewed millions of gallons of crude oil into the ocean, creating the most serious environmental disaster in U.S. history.

Rio Tinto, one of the largest mining companies in the world, started out in 1873 as a copper operation in Spain. It now has operations on six continents, with the largest presences in Australia and North America. Its products include aluminum, copper, diamonds, coal, uranium, gold, iron ore, and industrial minerals (borates, titanium dioxide, salt, and talc). Rio Tinto, which has dual headquarters in London and Melbourne, is one of the most controversial corporations in a controversial industry.

For most of its eight-decade history, Nalco has quietly gone about its business of producing specialty chemicals for water treatment and industrial processes. It had a higher profile in the 1970s when it challenged federal efforts to phase out the use of lead in gasoline and one of its subsidiaries was charged with botching the safety testing of drugs and chemicals.

Toyota used its professed obsession with quality and efficiency to turn itself into the world’s leading automaker, but a safety scandal that erupted in early 2010 has seriously damaged the company's reputation. Although the Japanese-headquartered company has production and sales operations around the world, its success was based to a great degree in the United States, where it built a series of heavily subsidized plants, and took advantage of the weakened condition of Detroit’s Big Three to capture market share.

Viru RMT provides design engineering, technologies, operational services and comprehensive project and construction management to the cemical, infrastructure and energy sectors.

Family Dollar, a discount "dollar store" chain, was formed in 1959, when it opened its first outlet in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over 40 years later, Family Dollar is still headquartered in Charlotte, but has at least 6,785 stores in 44 states with over 50,000 employees.

Critics of Family Dollar and other dollar stores say they exploit store employees by calling them "managers" (even though they do not oversee other employees) to avoid laws requiring paid overtime.

Family Dollar ranks No. 305 in the U.S. Fortune 500.

The Unilever Group consists primarily of Unilever NV and Unilever PLC and is one of the world’s top makers of packaged consumer goods and sells products like deodorants, fragrances, soap, margarine, tea and frozen foods all over the world. Unilever controls subsidiaries in at least 90 countries and is one of the world’s top food firms.

Nike is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes, apparel and sports equipment with revenue in excess of $16 billion USD in 2007. Operating in more than 160 countries around the globe Nike and is subsidiaries can be found in most shoe retailing stores. In addition to manufacturing their products Nike also runs a chain of retail stores known as Niketown. The company was heavily criticized in the late 1990s for egregious labor conditions, human rights abuses and environmental damage

The main company of the Chennai, India-based Sanmar Group, Chemplast is a major producer of PVC, caustic soda, chlorine, and chlorinated solvents including carbon tetrachloride refrigerant gases. With a product inventory ranging from ozone depleting substances to persistent organic pollutants, the company's operations -- particularly in its principal manufacturing facility in Mettur Dam -- is under attack for environmental pollution.

Blackwater USA is a private military company and security firm founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. It is based in the U.S. state of North Carolina, where it operates a tactical training facility that it claims is the world's largest. The company trains more than 40,000 people a year, from all the military services and a variety of other agencies. The company markets itself as being "The most comprehensive professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company in the world".

General Electric Co. manufactures electrical equipment, lighting products and household appliances. It also owns the broadcasting network NBC. In terms of market capitalization, GE is the world's second largest company and also second in the BrandZ ranking. In the 1960s, aspects of U.S. tax laws and accounting practices led to a rise in the assembly of conglomerates. GE, which was a conglomerate long before the term was coined, is arguably the most successful organization of this type.

Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) is the fourth largest bank in the United States. It is organized into three segments: Community Banking, Wells Fargo Financial and Wholesale Banking, with over 90 percent of its business located in the U.S.

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Enbridge, operator of the world’s largest crude oil pipeline system, focuses on carrying petroleum from Western Canada—including the notorious tar sand fields of Alberta—to refineries in Ontario and the U.S. Midwest. It and its affiliates have other pipelines in several parts of Canada and United States and operate Canada’s largest natural gas distribution company. In July 2010 the company’s U.S. subsidiary Enbridge Energy Partners L.P.