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This is a list of the world's largest non-governmental privately held companies by revenue.This list does not include state-owned enterprises like Sinopec, State Grid, China National Petroleum, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Pemex, Petrobras, PDVSA and others.
Often, privately held companies are owned by the company founders or their families and heirs or by a small group of investors. Sometimes, employees also hold shares in private companies. [2] [page needed] Most small businesses are privately held.
In June 2007, General Motors sold Allison Transmission to financial investors Carlyle Group and Onex Corporation. In 2010, Onex and the Canada Pension Plan acquired English engineering firm Tomkins , though Onex only held 14% of shares.
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) is an industry taxonomy developed in 1999 by MSCI and Standard & Poor's (S&P) for use by the global financial community. The GICS structure consists of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, 74 industries and 163 sub-industries [1] into which S&P has categorized all major public companies.
Platinum Equity sold PNA Group to publicly traded Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (NYSE: RS) in August 2008 for $300 million. The purchase price, together with the $181 million in accumulated profits, represented 27 times Platinum’s original investment of $17.5 million just two years earlier. [ 31 ]
Stock Name orosur Symbol omi Obsidian Energy Ltd. OBE: OceanaGold Corporation: OGC: Olympia Financial Group Inc. OLY: Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ONC: Onex Corporation
O-Zone, Inc. was founded by Gary S. Rosenthal in 1986 as O-Zone Productions, with the goal of education through communication. Gary stated “I really find a lot of joy in taking a complicated concept and making it understandable to any audience.
Ozon is one of the first e-commerce companies in Russia, sometimes referred to as "the Amazon of Russia." [2] [3] [4] Established in 1998 as an online bookstore, Ozon was one of the three biggest online retail platforms in the country by 2019. [5] It was named as the #3 most valuable Russian internet company of 2020 by Forbes. [6]