Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Global Valuable Companies

1.Apple Inc took over as the most valuable company. Its market value climbed past $623 billion on Monday, surpassing the record set by Microsoft Corp during the heyday of technology stocks in 1999.

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2.Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé. The company grew significantly during the First World War and again following the Second World War, expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and infant formula products
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3.Microsoft's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees
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4.IBM was among the first corporations to provide group life insurance (1934), survivor benefits (1935) and paid vacations (1937). The Human Rights Campaign has consistently rated IBM 100% on its index of gay-friendliness since 2003
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5.Royal Dutch Shell commonly known as Shell, is a Dutch–British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom
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