TOP 50 Companies Worldwide Ranking Company Industry Revenue FY Capitalization Employees Listing Headquarters CEO 1 Exxon Mobil Corporation Oil and gas $482.295 December 31‚ 2012 $408.78 76‚9 NYSE: XOM United States Irving‚ Texas Rex W. Tillerson 2 Royal Dutch Shell Oil and gas $481.7 December 31‚ 2012 $236.34 90 LSE: RDSA Netherlands The Hague; United Kingdom London Peter Voser 3 Walmart Retail $469.162 January 31‚ 2013 $208.36 2‚200‚000 NYSE: WMT United
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There was a lot of famous people in the 19th century‚ either by what they did or money wise‚ or both. However Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and Cornelius Vanderbilt were very famous during this time in industry. Therefore‚ they were very important people with money. Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25‚ 1835‚ in Dunfermline‚ Scotland. In 1848 moved to America in search of better opportunities. His education ended when they moved to America. He soon found a job as a bobbin boy at a cotton
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The key publics that BP should take into account are as follows: Environmental Groups Consumers Investors Media Government/Regulatory Authorities The diagram below (Figure 1.1) is a representation of some of the multifaceted relationships between BP and its publics/stakeholders. It is clear that the assortment of communication channels used to reach key publics is somewhat diverse. Whilst consumers and investors are perhaps most likely to be the primary focus‚ these two groups are highly influenced
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PERSONAL STATEMENT Every person has a dream. Somebody dreams about a big house‚ somebody about a luxury car‚ somebody about some new gadgets‚ etc. And I am not an exception. I also have a lot of dreams. But all of these my dreams come out of one main dream‚ it is a good education. I started to think about gaining a good education when I was 12 years old. That time was rather difficult time for our country‚ and consequently for our family. My father had just started his business in a young
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I. Summary One of the main points brought up is how income inequality is getting worse and worse. The Koch brothers were raised in a rich discriminating household. Their father owned the oil empire‚ putting 100 billion dollars in the Koch brother’s pockets making them rich oil barons. In general‚ the Koch brother’s want to buy America by paying others to listen to them and bribing council members with money for a total of at least 400 million dollars. From 2010 to 2014‚ the Koch brother’s spent
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A railroad tycoon‚ owner of a shipping empire and self made multimillionaire‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt helped to create a large railroad system and turn it into the big industry that it was in the 19th century and what it is now. He also did the same thing with the shipping industry. Vanderbilt changed the industries of America by introducing a way of transportation of people and goods that is effective and quicker than anything that has been created before. Seen as a Robber Baron‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller and Carnegie were all very successful businessmen. These men had many similarities. Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller and Carnegie are three of the greatest businessmen America has ever known. Each man had a work ethic like no other. Nothing other than success was an option. No matter how big the risk‚ these three men were willing to take it if somehow it would put them ahead of their competition. None of these men liked competition. They always wanted to be the best at what they did
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The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald Would you think that a storm in the Great Lakes could flip and sink a 728 foot freighter? I will talk about before the ship sank‚ during the sinking‚ and after the sinking and the affects on the sinking. In will tell you how it sank and why it sank as well. On June 7‚ 1957 the construction of the Edmund Fitzgerald started. It was launched on the 7th of June 1958. Since then this freighter has been transporting tons and tons of Iran ore. In fact the day
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BUSI 281 Strategic Management Dr. Dara Szyliowicz Case Write-Up: White Nights‚ Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry In the latter half of the 1980s‚ the fallen of the Soviet Union opened a great opportunity for Western firms to do business in Russian Oil industry. According to the article‚ Russia was still the world’s largest single producer of crude petroleum. Its reserves of petroleum were the seventh largest in the world‚ and its reserves of natural gas the largest. Moreover‚
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Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900 1. A Defense of Long-Haul Rates * Serious grievance against the “railroad rascals” was discrimination. * The money to keep up the road must be forth coming or it will go to decay * $600‚000 was required to operate the road * Local shippers would benefit if the company took the cotton at dollar per bale because then they would have to pay less 2. Railroad President Sidney Dillon Supports Stock Watering (1891) * Stock watering: the practice
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