Portal:Companies

Wikipedia portals: Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Main   Company index by industry Welcome to Wikipedia's companies portal, which seeks to analyse companies by country and industry. Contents: Associated Wikimedia • Categorical index • Did you know? • Index by industry • List of good and featured articles • Related portals • Selected article • Selected picture • Selected ranking • Things you can do edit   Selected company GM Holden Ltd is an Australian automaker based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was originally independent, but since 1931 has been a subsidiary of General Motors (GM). Holden has taken charge of vehicle operations for GM in Australasia and, on behalf of GM, holds partial ownership of GM Daewoo in South Korea. Over the years, Holden has offered a broad range of locally produced vehicles, supplemented by imported GM models. In the past, Holden has offered badge engineered Isuzu, Nissan, Suzuki and Toyota models in sharing arrangements. Holden bodyworks are manufactured at Elizabeth, South Australia, and engines are produced at Port Melbourne, Victoria. Historically, production or assembly plants were operated in all mainland states of Australia: Acacia Ridge, Queensland; Dandenong, Victoria; Mosman Park, Western Australia; Pagewood, New South Wales; and Woodville, South Australia. Until 1990, GM's New Zealand subsidiary Holden New Zealand operated a plant based in Trentham, with a plant in Petone running until 1984. The consolidation of car production at Elizabeth was completed in 1988, but some assembly operations continued at Dandenong until 1996. Although Holden's involvement in exports has fluctuated since the 1950s, the declining sales of large cars in Australia has led the company to look to international markets to increase profitability; in 2006, exports alone accounted for almost AU$1.3 billion in earnings. edit   Selected picture Credit: David Iliff 30 St Mary Axe, London, widely known by the nickname "The Gherkin", and occasionally as a variant on The Swiss Re Tower, after its previous owner and principal occupier. Swiss Re is the world’s largest reinsurance company, founded in 1863, the firm now operates in more than 30 countries and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. edit   Did you know ... From Wikipedia's newest articles: ... that the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film? ... that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops? ... that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history? ... that Aso Mining Company, which belongs to former Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II? ... that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production? ... that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media's films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards? edit   Selected top 10 ranking Largest market capitalization in Q4 2010 1   Exxon Mobil 2   PetroChina 3   Apple Inc. 4   BHP Billiton 5   Microsoft 6   Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 7   Petrobras 8   China Construction Bank 9   Royal Dutch Shell 10   Nestlé More lists and rankings... edit   Good and featured articles Featured articles Ace Books BAE Systems Cracker Barrel Delrina Elderly Instruments Holden Icos Microsoft NeXT Odwalla Oliver Typewriter Company Panavision Scene7 Featured lists List of acquisitions by Adobe Systems List of acquisitions by AOL List of acquisitions by Cisco Systems List of acquisitions by eBay List of acquisitions by Electronic Arts List of mergers and acquisitions by Google List of acquisitions by Juniper Networks List of defunct and relocated National Hockey League teams List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! 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Essar Group – needs proper introduction section, headers, and better flow Copyedit: work on Category:Company articles needing attention Expand: Cameco, Japan Steel Works, Mrs. Fields, BW Gas, BAE Systems Information Technology, AIG, Inmagic Infobox: work on Category:Company articles needing infoboxes Maintain: Portal:Companies Merge: UAL Corporation into United Continental Holdings (Discussion): The articles suggest that they are the same company, just renamed after the merger. Feedback is greatly appreciated! NPOV: Alabama Cooperative Extension System, written almost entirely by a news and public affairs employee at ACES, so needs some neutral eyes to give it a going-over to check for both neutrality, and layout/content inclusion, etc. Stubs: Category:Company stubs Wikify: Barry Callebaut, IOCOM Other: Tag the pages of any company articles with the {{portal|Companies}} template Tag the talk pages of any company articles with the {{WikiProject Companies}} project banner Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them if they would like to *Contribute to discussions on project guidelines and lists Identify articles for improvement and list here edit   Related WikiProjects Accountancy Business Companies Cooperatives Deletion sorting Economics Finance Game theory International development Investment Numismatics Private Equity Retailing Shopping Centers Taxation Trade edit   Related portals Business and economics Capitalism Cooperatives Energy Law Numismatics Society edit   Associated Wikimedia What are portals? 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