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Bonn-based multinational telecommunication company focused on fixed-line and mobile communications, digital media and internet service provider. The largest communication company of Germany and Europe. 79 Uniper: 116,662 6,863 Düsseldorf-based state-owned multinational nuclear-based electricity provider. It also has a Russian subsidiary Unipro.
In Europe, the company also produces and sells insulation, panels and mezzanine flooring. The company employs 43,000 people in operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States. [5] A Fortune 500 company, Mohawk is the world's largest flooring manufacturer. [6] [7] [8]
Tarkett S.A., known until 2008 as Sommer-Allibert S.A., is a French multinational corporation specialising in the production of floor and wall coverings. Headquartered in La Défense, near Paris, the present company was formed in October 1997 by the merging of two others: French Sommer-Allibert and German Tarkett AG.
All German cars contain parts made by another Freudenberg subsidiary, and German-made outdoor clothing contains fibers made by yet another. [6] Almost all major airports have flooring made by another Freudenberg subsidiary. [36] As of 2005, three-quarters of Freudenberg's business was as a supplier to other companies. [36]
This list displays all 29 German companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2023. [1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
Bona AB is a Swedish family-owned floor care company founded in 1919 and headquartered in Malmö.The company manufactures and supplies products for the installation, maintenance and renovation of wooden and resilient floors and also supplies UV coatings to international producers of wooden and resilient floors.
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is one of the world's largest carpet manufacturers with more than $6 billion in annual revenue and approximately 22,000 employees worldwide. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is headquartered in Dalton , Georgia , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway .
In the 1920s, the Armstrong Cork Products Company and Sherwin-Williams company were the largest industrial customers for hemp fiber.. In 1938, Armstrong bought Whitall Tatum, which had been one of the larger manufacturers of glass insulators for communications and power lines since entering that field in 1922.