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1941 Western Flyer. New Flyer was founded by John Coval in 1930 as the Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd in Manitoba. The company began producing buses in 1937, selling their first full buses to Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1937, before releasing their Western Flyer bus model in 1941, prompting the company to change its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948.
38,000. Multinational banking, financial services and insurance carrier in Toronto. Manulife is the largest insurance concern in Canada. 307. Royal Bank of Canada. $45,981. 85,301. Multinational financial services firm based in Toronto [9] and the largest bank in Canada. Subsidiaries include City National Bank and RBC Bank.
Peavey Industries completed its acquisition of the division in 2017, more than doubling the company's retail footprint from 34 stores predominantly in Western Canada, to 85 with an expanded presence in Manitoba and Ontario. The Manitoba TSC stores were rebranded as Peavey Mart in 2016, and the Ontario stores in 2021.
By 2013, Suncor and CNRL—Canada's two largest petroleum companies were also among top eleven of the country's most valuable companies. [13] In 2011, Canadian Natural Resources, overtook Suncor to become Canada's largest producer. Suncor produced 549,000 boe/d in 2012 only slightly higher than in 2011. [14]
Canadian Industries Limited, also known as C-I-L, is a Canadian chemicals manufacturer. Products include paints, fertilizers and pesticides, and explosives. It was formed in 1910 by the merger of five Canadian explosives companies. It was until recently a subsidiary of Imperial Chemical Industries until ICI was purchased by AkzoNobel .
Suncor Energy Inc. Suncor Energy ( French: Suncor Énergie) is a Canadian integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta. It specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Suncor Energy was ranked as the 48th-largest public company in the world. [4] Suncor was created by Sun Oil in 1979 by the ...
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., commonly known as " West Fraser ", is a Canadian forestry company that produces lumber, laminated veneer lumber (LVL), medium-density fibreboard (MDF), oriented strand board (OSB), plywood, pulp, newsprint, and wood chips. [2] Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company is a member of the Forest Products ...
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies.The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking.