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Amazon.com, Inc. |
| Amazon.com opened its virtual doors in July 1995 with a mission to use the Internet to transform book buying into the fastest, easiest, and most enjoyable shopping experience possible. Its products include free electronic greeting cards, online auctions, and millions of books, CDs, videos, DVDs, toys and games, and electronics. Amazon changed the principle of how business is done. | |
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. |
| The company that is leading by Warren E. Buffett, the richest investor in the world. From there, the most profitable companies can be found. | |
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Canon Inc |
| Founded in 1933 as a optical laboratory, Canon started out as a company with a handful of employees and a burning passion. That company soon became a world-renowned camera maker and is now a global multimedia corporation. | |
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Charoen Pokphand (USA), Inc. |
| C.P. Group was established 76 years ago in 1921 in Thailand. It started from vegetable seeds, animal feed, poultry breeding and broiler farming business with the Chia Tai store whose pioneering seed trading operation quickly became known for quality and reliability. By now, the Group has diversified its business into nine business lines following: Agro-Industry Business, Agri-Industry Business, Aquaculture Business, International Trading, Marketing and Distribution, Petrochemicals, Real Estate and Land Development, Automative and Industrial Products, Telecommunication. C.P. Group is over 250 individual companies, of which 15 are listed on stock exchanges in Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York, and China with more than 80,000 employees worldwide. | |
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The Coca-Cola Company |
| The Coca-Cola Company is a part of lives everywhere. The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola® , and carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink. It is a classic example of consumer behavior, marketing management, brand loyalty building and numerous of other management issues. The brand is properly the most valuable brand in the world. | |
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Dell Computer Corporation |
| Michael Dell began his computer business at The University of Texas-Austin. His dorm-room business officially became Dell Computer Corporation on May 3, 1984. Now, Dell Computer Corporation, headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, near Austin, is the world's leading direct computer systems company. Company revenue for the last four quarters (data up to Jun 1999) totaled $19.9 billion. Dell is the No. 2 and fastest growing among all major computer systems companies worldwide, with more than 26,100 employees around the globe. The company ranks No. 2 in the United States, where it is a leading supplier of PCs to business customers, government agencies, educational institutions and consumers. Dell's success is based on a simple concept: that by selling personal computer systems directly to customers, Dell could best understand their needs, and provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. | |
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ebay Inc |
| Founded in September 1995, eBay is The World's Online MarketplaceR for the sale of goods and services by a diverse community of individuals and small businesses. Today, the eBay community includes more than a hundred million registered members from around the world. People spend more time on eBay than any other online site, making it the most popular shopping destination on the Internet. | |
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Gap, Inc |
| Founded in 1969 by Doris and Don Fisher, Gap Inc. is now one of the world's largest specialty retailers, with about 3,000 stores and fiscal 2004 revenues of $16.3 billion. We operate four of the most recognized apparel brands in the world ¡X Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Forth & Towne. | |
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General Electric Company |
| Founded in 1878 as Edison Electric Light Company by the famous innovator, Thomas Edison. Now, GE's businesses diversifies from jet engines to power generation, financial services to plastics, and medical imaging to news and information. GE is the only company listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original index in 1896. In Fortune Magazine's 2005 "Global Most Admired Companies" list, GE ranked first overall. | |
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Google Inc |
| Started by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 with the collaboration on a search engine called BackRub, named for its unique ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given website. Google is now a public and profitable company focused on search services. Named for the mathematical term " googol ", Google operates web sites at many international domains, with the most trafficked being www.google.com. Google is widely recognized as the "World's Best Search Engine" and is fast, accurate and easy to use. The company also serves corporate clients, including advertisers, content publishers and site managers with cost-effective advertising and a wide range of revenue generating search services. Google's breakthrough technology and continued innovation serve the company's mission of "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful." | |
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The Hewlett-Packard Company |
| Stanford University classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP in 1939. The company's first product, built in a Palo Alto garage, was an audio oscillator - an electronic test instrument used by sound engineers. HP is now the leading provider of the inkjet, all-in-one and single-function printers, mono and color laser printers, large format printing, scanners, print servers and ink and laser supplies. | |
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The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited |
| The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) is founded in 1862 in Hong Kong. Towngas is a customer-centric, quality-driven company with a horizontally-aligned structure that encourages leadership at all levels and a high degree of corporate and individual responsiveness. The company-wide focus is also eminently clear: customer above all else. It can also be demonstrated from its clear mission statement - To provide our customers with a safe, reliable supply of gas, and the friendly, competent and efficient service they expected. Towngas is also widely recognized as the excellent company. It is the winners of the 1999 HKMA Quality Award, the 1999 Gas Company of the Year and the 1997 Hong Kong Award for Services: Productivity. | |
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Hong Kong International Airport |
| One of the most important hubs for international passenger and cargo flow. HKIA has received include the Best Airport Worldwide as chosen by both business and leisure travellers, according to the results of the authoritative AETRA survey announced in March 2005. HKIA has received the prestigious 'Airport of the Year 2005' title awarded by SkyTrax for the fifth consecutive year. | |
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HSBC Group |
| The HSBC Group is named after its founding member, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, which was established in 1865 to finance the growing trade between China and Europe. Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC's international network comprises over 9,800 offices in 77 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With listings on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges, shares in HSBC Holdings plc are held by nearly 200,000 shareholders in some 100 countries and territories. The shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American Depositary Receipts. | |
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IBM Corporation |
| Founded formally in 1911, IBM's origins can be traced back to developments at the close of the 19th century. For example, the first dial recorder was invented by Dr. Alexander Dey in 1888, and Dey's business became one of the building blocks of C-T-R. Similarly, the Bundy Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1889 as the first time recording company in the world. IBM helped pioneer information technology over the years, and it stands today at the forefront of a worldwide industry that is revolutionizing the way in which enterprises, organizations and people operate and thrive. | |
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IKEA Group |
| Founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA began in a small farming village in Sweden. IKEA now sells low-price products, including furniture, accessories, bathrooms and kitchens at retail stores around the world. | |
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Intel Corporation |
| The microprocessor leader. Founded in 1968, from Intel, we can learn how innovation changes the world. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. For nearly four decades, Intel innovation has made Moore's Law a reality, changing the way the world lives, works and plays. | |
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Johnson and Johnson Group |
| The Group started with the development of the first ready-made, ready-to-use surgical dressings by Johnson & Johnson in the mid-1880s. Johnson & Johnson, through its operating companies, is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices and diagnostics markets. The more than 200 Johnson & Johnson operating companies employ approximately 113,800 men and women in 57 countries and sell products throughout the world. | |
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Li & Fung Limited |
| Founded in Canton (now Guangzhou), the PRC in 1906, the Li & Fung Group is a multinational group of companies headquartered in Hong Kong operating three distinct core businesses ¡V export trading, retailing and distribution. The Li & Fung Group has a total staff force of over 12,000 worldwide. | |
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Lucasfilm Limited |
| Founded by George Lucas in 1971, Lucasfilm is one of the world's leading film and entertainment companies. | |
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Mars, Inc. |
| Started since 1911 when Frank Mars and his wife Ethel started making and selling a variety of butter-cream candies from the spotless kitchen of their home in Tacoma Washington. Mars is now a diversified multi-national company creating quality products in five primary product groups including pet care, snack foods, main meal, electronics, and drinks. Today Mars products are enjoyed in over one hundred countries throughout five continents. | |
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McDonald's Corporation |
| Started since 1954 when Ray Kroc mortgaged his home and invested his entire life savings to become the exclusive distributor of a five-spindled milk shake maker called the Multimixer. McDonald's is now the largest and best-known global foodservice retailer with more than 30,000 restaurants in 119 countries. | |
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Microsoft Corporation |
| As the largest corporation in the world, Microsoft products include operating systems for personal computers, server applications for client/server environments, business and consumer productivity applications, interactive media programs, and Internet platform and development tools. Microsoft also offers online services, sells personal computer books and input devices, and researches and develops advanced technology software products. Microsoft products, available in more than 30 languages and sold in more than 50 countries, are available for most PCs. | |
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company |
| With William L. McKnight's basic rule of management, 3M is developed as a corporation of innovation. 3M was founded in 1902 at the Lake Superior town of Two Harbors, Minnesota. In the early 1920, 3M developed the world's first waterproof sandpaper, which eased the health problem of sanding dust. A major milestone occurred in 1925 when Richard G. Drew, a young lab assistant, invented masking tape - an innovative step toward diversification and the first of many Scotch brand pressure-sensitive tapes. In the 1950s, 3M introduced the Thermo-Fax(TM) copying process, Scotchgard(TM) Fabric Protector, videotape, Scotch-Brite(TM) Cleaning Pads and several new electro-mechanical products. In the 1960s dry-silver microfilm was introduced, photographic products, carbonless papers, overhead projection systems and a rapidly growing health care business of medical and dental products. The 1990s set new sales records of over $15 billion annually, and about 30% of sales coming from products created within the past four years. 3M's growth has come through a desire to participate in many markets where the company can make a significant contribution from core technologies, rather than be dominant in just a few markets. | |
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Motorola, Inc |
| Originally founded as the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928, Motorola has come a long way since introducing its first product, the battery eliminator. Motorola is now a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. | |
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MTR Corporation Limited |
| Since operations began in 1979, the MTR Railway has become one of the most important elements of Hong Kong's transportation network. With a daily patronage of over 2.4 million passengers, the system is one of the most intensively utilized systems in the world. | |
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Nestle S.A |
| Nestle with headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestle and is today the world's biggest food and beverage company. | |
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Nike Group |
| Founded in 1962, Nike started with a handshake between two running geeks, Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, in sleepy Eugene, Oregon, is now the world's most competitive sports and fitness company. | |
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Nokia Group |
| The roots of Nokia go back to the year 1865 with the establishment of a forest industry enterprise in South-Western Finland by mining engineer Fredrik Idestam. Elsewhere, the year 1898 witnessed the foundation of Finnish Rubber Works Ltd, and in 1912 Finnish Cable Works began operations. Gradually, the ownership of these two companies and Nokia began to shift into hands of just a few owners. Finally in 1967 the three companies were merged to form Nokia Corporation. Nokia is now a global company whose key growth areas are wireless and wireline telecommunications. As a pioneer in mobile telephony, Nokia is the world's leading mobile phone supplier as well as a top supplier of mobile and fixed telecom networks and services. Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 51,000 people. | |
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Oracle Corporation |
| Almost thirty years ago, Larry Ellison saw an opportunity other companies missed when he came across a description of a working prototype for a relational database and discovered that no company had committed to commercializing the technology. Ellison and his co-founders, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, realized there was tremendous business potential in the relational database model. Oracle has always been an innovative company. It was one of the first companies to make its business applications available through the internet | |
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Pfizer Inc |
| In 1849, cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhardt founded Charles Pfizer & Company in a red brick building in Brooklyn, NY. After successfully merging with Warner-Lambert and Pharmacia, Pfizer became the world's fastest-growing major pharmaceutical company. Pfizer discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets leading prescription medicines for humans and animals and many of the world's best-known consumer brands. | |
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The Procter & Gamble Company |
| On April 12, 1837, William Procter and James Gamble start making and selling their soap and candles. The P&G community consists of nearly 98,000 people working in almost 80 countries worldwide. What began as a small, family-operated soap and candle company now provides products and services of superior quality and value to consumers in 140 countries. | |
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The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company |
| Among the grand hotels of the world, The Ritz-Carlton hotels and resorts are renowned for indulgent luxury. The legacy of The Ritz-Carlton, Boston begins with the celebrated hotelier Cesar Ritz...the "king of hoteliers and hotelier to kings." His philosophy of service and innovations redefined the luxury hotel experience in Europe through his management of The Ritz in Paris and The Carlton in London about 100 years ago. | |
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San Miguel Corporation |
| San Miguel Corporation is the largest publicly listed food, beverage and packaging company in the Philippines. Founded in 1890 as a brewery, the company has over 60 facilities in the Philippines, Southeast Asia and China. San Miguel's flagship product, San Miguel Beer, holds over 80% share of the Philippine market. It is among the world's largest selling beers and among the top three brands in Asia. The company has five breweries in the Philippines, one brewery each in Indonesia and Vietnam, and four breweries in China, including Hong Kong. | |
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Sansung Group |
| Founded in 1938, Samsung Group runs businesses in electronic industry, machinery and heavy industry, automotives, chemicals, financial services and entertainment. Some of its affiliated companies are even the world's best. For example, Samsung Electronics is the world's leading memory devices maker. It successfully developed a 1-gigabit DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip in 1997 and a 128-megabit flash memory chip in 1998. The Harvard Business School selected Samsung Corning in 1995 as a model case study of a successful joint venture, illustrating its outstanding management. | |
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Singapore Airlines |
| In May 1, 1947, an Airspeed Consul hurtled down a tiny airstrip in Kallang, Singapore. As it took flight, so did an airline, Malayan Airways. In 1966, a year after the country of Singapore became independent, the company was renamed Malaysia-Singapore Airlines. Over the last two decades, SIA has grown from a regional airline into one of the world's leading passenger and cargo carriers. Today, the SIA fleet is the most modern of any of the world's major airlines. Its home base, Changi Airport, is regularly voted the world's best, and serves as the gateway to Asia and beyond. Today, SIA is internationally recognised as one of the world's leading carriers. Its route network spans over 90 cities in more than 40 countries, It is the world's largest operator of Boeing 747-400s. Singapore Airlines was the pioneer of inflight services such as free drinks and complimentary headsets. With innovations like the revolutionary KrisWorld interactive entertainment system, SIA is still setting the standards today - standards which have made the name of Singapore Airlines synonymous with impeccable service around the globe. Singapore Airlines is widely recognized as the best airline and received a lot of awards such as the Best International Airline by the Business Traveller Asia Pacific in 1997 and 1998 and as the Best Airline by the Asian Wall Street Journal in 1999. | |
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Starbucks Corporation |
| Founded in 1971, Starbucks is now the world's leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee with coffeehouses. | |
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Sony Corporation |
| Founded in 1946, Sony demonstrates the creativity and innovation of Japan with numerous of great products such as Walkman, Discman, MD and Playstation. | |
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Toyoto Motor Corporation |
| The Toyota Motor Co. Ltd was first established in 1937 as a spin-off from Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, one of the world's leading manufacturers of weaving machinery. Toyota launched its first small car (SA Model) in 1947. Toyoto improved its production systems significantly in the late 1950s, culminating in the establishment of the 'Toyota Production System'. It became known as TPS in 1970 but was established much earlier by Taiichi Ohno. Based on the principles of Jidoka, Just-in-time and Kaizen, the system is a major factor in the reduction of inventories and defects in the plants of Toyota and its suppliers, and it underpins all our operations across the World. Today, Toyota is the world's third largest manufacturer of automobiles in unit sales and in net sales. | |
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Viacom International Inc. |
| Viacom is a leading entertainment group with an annual revenue over US$12 billion. Its businesses include motion pictures, television, publishing, retail, recreation and others. It holds over 500,000 copyrights and runs businesses in over 100 countries. It leads a lot of great companies, including Paramount, Blockbuster, MTV, etc. | |
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
| Wal-Mart is founded in 1962 by Sam Walton and opened its first store in Rogers, AR of USA. It is the world's largest retail corporation - which exceeded $100 billion dollars in sales in 1996. Up to March 1999, Wal-mart operated totally 2435 stores around the world. It served more than 90 million customers weekly in 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, China, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Argentina and South Korea. The three fundamental principles of Wal-Mart are : Respect for the Individual, Service for our Customers, Striving for Excellence. It has been named the nation's #1 "good corporate citizen" in The 1999 Cone/Roper Cause Related Trends Report. | |
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The Walt Disney Company |
| Since its founding in 1923, The Walt Disney Company has remained faithful in its commitment to producing unparalleled entertainment experiences based on its rich legacy of quality creative content and exceptional storytelling. |
Last Update on 18 Sep 2005