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5 unusual facts about Multinational corporation


Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods plc is a British multinational food processing and retailing company whose headquarters are in London, United Kingdom.

Barclays Investment Bank

Barclays Investment Bank (trading as Barclays, formerly Barclays Capital) is the investment banking division of the British multinational Barclays bank headquartered in London.

Carillion

Carillion plc is a British multinational facilities management and construction services company headquartered in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.

Nutrilabs

NutriLabs International, Inc. (simply known as NutriLabs) with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California, USA, is an American-based multinational producer of nutraceuticals and functional foods.

Synthes

Synthes Holding AG (formerly Synthes-Stratec) is a multinational medical device manufacturer based in Solothurn, Switzerland and West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.


Attock Group of Companies

Attock Group of Companies commonly known as Attock Group is a Pakistani multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Rawalpindi District.

Bitter Seeds

Due to the biotech seed monopoly in India, where Bt cotton seed has become the ubiquitous standard, and organic seed has become absolutely unobtainable, thus cooercing all cotton farmers into signing Bt cotton seed purchase agreements which enforce the intellectual property interests of the biotech multinational corporation Monsanto.

Dezsö J. Horváth

Upon his graduation, he worked as a researcher at ASEA, now known as ABB, a Swiss-Swedish multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

Electrolux Bitola

Electrolux DP (commonly known as Electrolux) is a Macedonia multinational household and professional appliances manufacturer headquartered in Bitola, Macedonia.

Glen Taylor

This purchase (which he paid off early) formed the basis for the Taylor Corporation, a privately held multinational printing and electronics company with more than 15,000 employees and based in North Mankato, Minnesota.

Grant McCann Erickson

Grant McCann Erickson is a leading Sri Lankan advertising agency and part of the McCann Worldgroup which has offices in over 130 countries and almost eight decades of multinational experience.

Heritage turkey

The breeding stock for these birds are owned largely by three multinational corporations: Hybrid Turkeys of Ontario, Canada, British United Turkeys of America in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms in Sonoma, California.

HSBC Bank Egypt

HSBC Bank Egypt SAE is a multinational bank in Egypt, providing a wide range of banking and related financial services through a network of 100 branches and 20 mini bank units in Cairo, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Borg El Arab and 6th of October City.

InterContinental Hotels Group

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC informally InterContinental Hotels or IHG is a British multinational hotels company headquartered in Denham, UK.

Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

The school is also a member of the Global Alliance in Management Education, an alliance of 26 academic institutions and over 50 leading multinational corporations.

NASDAQ OMX Group

is an American multinational financial services corporation that owns and operates the NASDAQ stock market and eight European stock exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic regions and Armenia under the NASDAQ OMX banner.

Parker Green

Parker Green, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Newry, Northern Ireland, active in developing and investing in property across three key markets

Pilkington

Pilkington Group Limited is a multinational glass manufacturing company headquartered in St Helens, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japan-based NSG Group.

Pobal Chill Chomáin

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has deemed a PCC complaint about the three oil companies involved admissible (for breaching their guidelines for multinationals), and has offered to mediate between the two sides.

Prada gender discrimination case

Prada Group used tactics of low human rights jurisdiction of women’s rights in Japan instead of taking a responsible action as multinational corporation.

Rajiv Dixit

He fought various MNCs like Manforce, Cargill, Coca-Cola, Du Pont, Hindustan Unilever, and Colgate as he considered that these companies are draining the wealth of India, making it poorer.

Stanley Bing

It was at this point that Bing, who had been writing in secret within a large multinational corporation, revealed his existence to his colleagues at Westinghouse, who had heretofore known him only by his given name.

The Pinewood Studios Group

The Pinewood Studios Group (officially Pinewood Shepperton plc) is a multinational film studio and television studio company headquartered in Iver Heath, United Kingdom.

Thornwood, New York

Thornwood is the home to the North American headquarters for the Carl Zeiss Corporation, a multinational German manufacturer of optical systems, industrial measurements and medical devices.

Törökbálint

In the outskirts of Törökbálint, multinational companies, like Cora and Telenor give work for many inhabitants of the settlement.


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Milestone Aviation Group

He is known for inventing the fractional jet ownership industry and growing NetJets into a multinational corporation.

Orange Grove affair

The Orange Grove affair was a political scandal in Australia concerning the dealings of the New South Wales state Australian Labor Party government with multinational corporation The Westfield Group.

Saint-Gobain

Multinational corporation Suez suggested that Saint-Gobain and Pont-à-Mousson (another French industrial group) should merge, in order to maintain independence from BSN.

Sri Gading

Other local brand like Miaow Miaow Food Products Sdn Bhd, New Star Food Industries Sdn Bhd, PCCS, LY Furniture & Ramatex, multinational corporation like Fujitsu, Sharp Roxy & J.R. Courtenay had their factories in Sri Gading.