GLOBAL COMPANIES AND LEADERS ( Business & Economy )

AUTOMOBILE
S. No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present head	Designation
1	BMW	Munich, Germany	1913	Karl & Gustav otto Rapp	Dr. Norbert	Chairman
2	Daimler AG	Stuttgart, Germany	1924 (as Daimler-Benz AG)	Kar Benz of Benz & Cie (founded in 1883) & Giffkiev Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach of Daimler Motoren Gasellschaft (founded 1890).	Dieter Zetsche	Chairman
3	Fiat	Turin, Italy	1899	Giovanni Agnelli	Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo	Chairman
4	Ford Motors	Dearborn, USA	1903	Henry Ford	William Ford. Jr.	Chairman
5	Honda Motors	Tokyo, Japan	1948	Soichiro Honda	Satoshi Aoki	CEO & Alan Mullaly is President & CEO
6	Mitsubishi	Tokyo, Japan	1870	Yataro Iwasaki	Takashi Nishioka	Chairman
7	General Motors	Detroit-Minnesota, USA	1908	William C. Durant	Fritz Henderson	Chairman & CEO
8	Harley Davidson	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA	1903	William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson	Keith E Wandell	CEO
9	Renault	Boulogne – Billancourt, France	1899	Louis Renault	Carlos Ghosn	CEO
10	Chrysler LLC	Michigan, USA	1925	Walter P. Chrysler	Sergio Marchionne	CEO & Chairman
11	Toyota	Japan	1937	Kiichiro Toyoda	Fujio Cho	Chairman
12	Volkswagen AG	Germany	1937	Government of Germany	Martin Winterkorn	Chairman

IT
S. No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Adobe Systems	San Jose. California U.S.A	1982	John Warnock & Charles Gerchke	Shantanu Narayanan	CEO & President
2	Amazon.com	Seattle, Washington, USA	1994	Jeffrey P. Bezos	Jeffrey P. Bezos	CEO & President
3	Cisco Systems	San Francisco, California, USA	1984	Len Bosack and Sandra Lerner	John Chambers	CEO & Chairman
4	Dell Computer	Texas, USA	1984	Michael Dell	Michael Dell	Chairman & CEO
5	eBay	San Jose, California, USA	1995	Pierre Omidyar	John Donahoe	CEO
6	Fujitsu	Tokyo, Japan	1935	Fujitsu: Joint Venture between Furukaw a Electric Company, Japan and German Conglomerate Siemens	Hiroaki Kurokawa	President
7	Hewlett Packard	Palo Alto, California, USA	1939	Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard	Mark Hurd	President and CEO & Chairman
8	Intel	Santa Clara, California, USA	1968	Gordon E. Moore & Robert Noyce	Paul Otellini Craig Barett	CEO Chairman
9	IBM	New York, USA	1888	Herman Hollerith	Samuel Palmisano	Chairman and CEO
10	Microsoft	Redmond, USA	1975	Bill Gates and Paul Allen	Bill Gates Steve Ballmer	Chairman CEO
11	Oracle	California, USA	1977	Lawrence J. Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates	Lawrence J. Ellison	CEO
12	SAP AG	Walldorf, Germany	1972	Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira and Claus Wellenreuther	Leo Apotheker	CEO & President
13	SUN Microsystems	Santa Clara, California, USA	1982	Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim	Scott McNealy Jonathan I. Schwartz	Chairman CEO & President
14	Apple Computers	Cupertino California, USA	1976	Steve Jobs & Steve Woznaik	Steve Jobs	CEO
15	Accenture	Hamilton Bermuda	1989	Founded as consulting division of Anderson Consulting by Arther Anderson & Clarence Delany	William Green	CEO
16	AT & T inc.	Dallas, Texas, USA	1983		Randall L. Stephenson	CEO
17	Google	California, USA	1998	Larry Page & Sergey Brin	Eric Schmidt	CEO
18	Alcatel-Lucent	Paris, France	2006 (1898 - Alcatel)	Alcate and Lucent Technologies	Ben Verwaayen Phillippe Camus	CEO Chairman
19	Motorola	Schaumburg Illinois, USA	1928	Paul Galvin & Joseph Galvin	Greg Brown	President and CEO

BANKS/FINANCIAL SERFVICES
S.No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Allianz SE	Munich, Germany	1890	Public Company	Michael Diekmann	CEO
2	American Express	New York City, New York USA	1850	Henry Wells, William Fargo and John Butterfield	Kenneth I. Chenault	Chairman and CEO
3	Aviva	London, UK	2000	Created by a merger of Norwich Union and CGU plc	Lord Sharman Andrew Moss	Chairman CEO
4	Bank of America	Charlotte, North Carolina, USA	1928	Amadeo Giannini	Kenneth D Lewis	Chairman and CEO
5	Barclays	London, UK	1896	Several Banks United under one banner called Barclays & Co.	Marcus Agius	Chairman
6	Citigroup	New York, USA	1812	Through a merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group	Vikram Pandit Sir Win Bischoff	CEO Chairman
7	Deutsche Bank	Frankfurt, Germany	1870	Adelbert Delbruck and Ludwig Bamberger	Josef Ackermann	Chairman and CEO
8	HSBC	London, UK	1865	Thomas Sunderland	Stephen Green	Chairman
9	Morgan Stanley	New York , USA	1935	Henry S. Morgan and Harold Stanley	John J. Mack	Chairman and CEO
10	UBS AG	Zurich, Switzerland	1998	Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland & Swiss Bank Corporation	Kaspar Villiger	Chairman
11	AIG	New York USA	1919	Cornelius Vander Starr	Edward M. Liddy	CEO & Chairman
12	Berkshire Hathaway	Nebraska, USA	1839	Oliver Chace	Warren Buffet	CEO & Chairman
13	Goldman Sachs	New York, USA	1869	Marcus Goldman	Lloyd Blankfien	CEO and Chairman
14	JP Morgan Chase	New York City USA	1799	Chase Manhatten acquired JP Morgan in 2000	James L.Dimon	Chairman & CEO

PHARMACEUTICALS
S.No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Sanofi- Aventis	Paris, France	2004	Sanofi-Synthelabo acquired Aventis in 2004	Jean-Francois Dehecq Chris Viehbacher	Chairman CEO
2	Bayer AG	Leverkusen, Germany	1863	Friedrich Bayer & Johann Friedrich Weskott	Werner Wenning	CEO
3	Glaxo SmithKline	London, UK	2000	Formed by the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham	Sir Chris Gent Andrew Witty	Chairman CEO
4	Johnson & Johnson	New Brunswick, USA	1886	Robert wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson & Edward Mead Johnson	William C. Weldon	Chairman and CEO
5	Pfizer	New York, USA	1849	Charles Pfizer & Charles Erhardt	Jeff Kindler	CEO
6	Eli Lilly	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	1876	Colonel Eli Lilly	Sidney Taurel John C. Lachleiter	Chairman President & CEO

MEDIA
S.No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	News Corp	New York, USA	1979	Rupert Murdoch	Rupert Murdoch	CEO & Chairman
2	Time Warner	New York, USA	1990	Merger between Time Inc. and Warner Comm,.subseq-uently purchased by AOL	Jeffrey L. Bewkes	Chairman and CEO
3	The Walt Disney Company	Burbank California, USA	1923	Walt and Roy Disney	Robert Iger John E. Pepper Jr.	President and CEO Chairman

FMCG/CONSUMER DURABLE
S.No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Coca- Cola	Atlanta, USA	1892	Asa Griggs Candler	Muhtar Kent	CEO & Chairman
2	Colgate Palmolive	New York, USA	1928	Colgate was founded in 1806 and in 1928 it was bought by Palmolive	Roger D Casmeyer Justin Skala	MD Chairman
3	Cadbury plc	London, UK	1824	John Cadbury Cadbury Schweppes plc demerged in 2008 separated its global confectionery business.	Roger Carr Todd Stitzer	Chairman CEO
4	Electrolux	Stockholm, Sweden	1910 as Elektomekaniska AB	Through the merger of Elektromekaniska AB and Lux AB in 1919	Hans Straberg Marcus Wallenberg	CEO & President Chairman
5	Henkel AG	Dusseldorf, Germany	1876	Fritz Henkel	Kasper Rorsted	CEO & Chairman
6	L’Oréal	Clichy, France	1909	Eugène Schueller	Lindsay Owen Jones Jean-Paul Agon	Chairman CEO
7	LG	Seoul, Korea	1947	Through a merger of the appliance company Goldstar and the chemical company Lucky.	Koo Bon Moo	CEO
8	Nestlé	Vevey, Switzerland	1866	Henri Nestle	Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Paul Bulcke	Chairman CEO
9	Procter and Gamble	Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	1837	William Procter & James Gamble	Bob McDonald	Chairman and CEO
10	Pepsi Co.	New York, USA	1965	Donald M. Kendall and Herman W. Lay through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay	Indra Nooyi	Chairwoman & President & CEO
11	Philips	Amsterdam, the Netherlands	1891	Gerard Philips	Gerard J. Kleisterlee	CEO
12	Sony	Tokyo, Japan	1946	Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita	Sir Howard Stringer	Chairman and CEO
13	Sara Lee	Il1inois, USA	1939	Nathan Cummings	Brenda C. Barnes	CEO
14	Unilever	London, UK and Rotterdam Netherlands	1930	Formed as a merger of Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie	Micheal Treschow Paul Polman	Chairman CEO
15	Kraft Foods	Illinois, USA	1903	James. L. Kraft	Irene Rosenfeld	Chairman

GARMENTS/APPARELS
S.No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Adidas	Herzogenaurach, Germany	1924 as Gebriider Dassler SchuhFabrik in 1949 registered as Adidas AG	Adolf Dassler	Herbert Hainer	CEO
2	Nike	Oregon, USA	1972	Philip Knight and William J. Bill Bowerman	Philip Knight Mark Parker	Chairman CEO & President
3	Polo Ralph Lauren	New York, USA	1967	Ralph Lauren	Ralph Lauren	CEO & Chairman
4	Abercrombie & Fitch	New Albany, USA	1892	David T. Abercrombie Ezra Fitch	Michael S. Jeffries	Chairman & CEO
5	Lacoste	Paris	1933	Rene Lacoste	Michel Lacoste	Chairman
6	Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation	Manhatten, New York, USA	1900s	John M. Van Heusen & Isaac Phillips	Emanuel Chirico	Chairman & CEO
7	Tommy Hilfiger	New York, USA	1984	Tommy Hilfiger	David F. Dyer	President & Director

MISCELLANEOUS
S.No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Asahi Glass	Tokyo, Japan	1907	Toshiya Iwasaki	Masahiro Kadomatsu	Chairman & CEO
2	Fed Ex	Memphis, USA	1971	Frederick W. Smith	Frederick W. Smith	Chairman & President
3	General Electric	Fairfield, USA	1878	Thomas Alva Edison, Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Hovston	Jeffrey R. Immelt	Chairman and CEO
4	Canon	Tokyo, Japan	1937	Goro Yoshida and Saburo Uchida	FujioMitarai	Chairman and CEO
5	Arcelor Mittal	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	2006	Through the merger of Arcelor and Mittal Steel	Lakshmi N. Mittal	Chairman of the borad & CEO
6	Virgin Atlantic	London, UK	1984	Richard Branson	Richard Branson Stephen Murphy	President Chairman
7	Wal-Mart Stores inc.	Arkansas, USA	1962	Sam Walton	Mike Duke	CEO
8	IKEA	Leiden, the Netherlands	1943	Ingvar Kamprad	Anders Dahlvig	President
9	Boeing	Chicago, USA	1916	William Boeing	W. James McNerney, Jr.	CEO
10	Airbus	France	1970	Began as a consortium of European aviation firms		CEO

PETROLEUM CORPORATION
S.No	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	BP	London, UK	1954	Donald Alexander Smith	Anthony B. Hayward	CEO
2	Exxon Mobil	Texas, USA	1999	Formed by the merger of Exxon & Mobil	Rex W. Tillerson	Chairman and CEO
3	Royal Dutch Shell	The Hague, the Netherlands	1907	Jean Kessler	Peter Vosek Jorma Ollila	CEO Chairman
4	Chevron Corp.	California, USA	1879	Formed by Anti Trust breakup of Standard Oil	David Re