Siam Commercial Bank Public Co., Ltd. history, profile and corporate video Siam Commercial Bank Public Co., Ltd. engages in the banking business. Its products and services include deposit and credit services, retail services, investment, bancassurance products, cash-management related services, international trade financing, treasury products, debt and capital market products, corporate advisory, investment banking, and other related financial services. The retail services include home loans, personal credit, car hire purchase, credit cards, Automated Teller Machine cards, debit cards, currency exchange facilities, and overseas remittances. Its operations are carried out through the following business groups: Wholesale Banking, Business Banking, Retail Banking, and Special Assets.…
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Toll Brothers, Inc. profile and corporate video Toll Brothers, Inc. designs, builds, markets and arranges financing for single-family detached and attached homes in luxury residential communities. The Company is also involved, directly and through joint ventures, in projects where it is building, or converting rental apartment buildings into, high-, mid- and low-rise luxury homes. The Company caters to move-up, empty-nester, active-adult, age-qualified and second-home buyers in 19 states of the United States. As of October 31, 2010, the Company delivered 26,062 homes from 549 communities, including 2,642 homes from 265 communities. The Company operates its own land development, architectural, engineering, mortgage, title,…
Key Stats Founded: September 17, 1872, in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan CEO: Kentaro Fujiwara (since January 2025) Employees: 27,908 full-time staff (as of December 2024) Market Cap: Approximately $6.5 billion USD (2025) Shiseido Company, Limited is a Japanese multinational cosmetics company headquartered in Tokyo. The company was established in 1872 by Arinobu Fukuhara as Japan’s first private Western-style pharmacy in the Ginza district. Today, Shiseido ranks as the largest cosmetic firm in Japan and the fifth largest globally. The company operates across skincare, makeup, body care, hair care, and fragrance categories. Products are sold in approximately 120 countries…
Shire Plc history, company profile (overview) and corporate video Shire Plc was a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Massachusetts, United States. HISTORY Shire’s history began in 1986 when a tiny company called AimCane was founded in the U.K. by entrepreneurs Harry Stratford, Dennis Stephens, Peter Moriarty, Geoff Hall, and Dr. Jim Murray. Initially, AimCane offered a range of calcium products designed to help with the bone disease, osteoporosis. AimCane was situated in a shop in Hampshire, and when the company decided to change its name, it chose Shire, after the name of the building that housed the company…
Timken Company history, profile and corporate video The Timken Company (Timken) develops, manufactures, markets and sells products for friction management and mechanical power transmission, alloy steels and steel components. The Timken Company manufactures and manages global supply chains for two core product lines: anti-friction bearings and adjacent mechanical power transmission components, as well as specialty steel and related precision steel components. Its products and services include bearings and power transmission, tapered roller bearings, precision cylindrical and ball bearings, spherical and cylindrical roller bearings, chains and augers, gear-drive systems, aerospace products and services, steel and precision steel components. Timken operates in 30 countries…
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. history, company profile (overview) and corporate video Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (信越化学工業株式会社) is a chemical company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. PRODUCTS HISTORY Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. was founded as Shin-Etsu Nitrogen Fertilizer Co., Ltd. in 1926 to manufacture chemical fertilizer and limestone nitrogen. The company’s “Shin” comes from Shinano and “Etsu” is taken from Echigo. Nagano Prefecture’s (Shinano-area) plentiful water give birth to electric power and the limestone that came from Niigata Prefecture (Echigo-area) was a key raw material, which was called, “Oyashirazu’s great earth.” In 1927, the Naoetsu Plant began production of…
Tiffany & Co. history, profile and history video Tiffany & Co. is a holding company that operates through its subsidiary companies. The Company’s principal subsidiary, Tiffany and Company (Tiffany), is a jeweler and specialty retailer whose principal merchandise offering is jewelry. Through Tiffany and other subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in product design, manufacturing and retailing activities. Its segments include Americas, Asia-Pacific, Japan, Europe and Other. The Company’s principal product category is jewelry, which represented 91% of the Company’s net sales in 2011. The Company also sells timepieces, sterling silver goods (other than jewelry), china, crystal, stationery, fragrances, personal accessories and leather…
ThyssenKrupp AG history, profile and corporate video ThyssenKrupp AG engages in the production of steel. It operates through the following business areas: Components Technology, Industrial Solutions, Elevator Technology, Materials Services, Steel Europe, and Steel Americas. The Components Technology business develops and manufactures slewing bearings, crawler and crawler components, steering shafts, steering columns, and steering gears. The Elevator Technology business range includes passenger and freight elevators, escalators, moving walks, passenger boarding bridges as well as stair and platform lifts. The Industrial Solutions business provides engineering services for the design and construction of chemical plants, refineries and other industrial facilities, equipment for the cement…
Sharp Corp. history, profile and history video Sharp Corp. engages in the manufacture and sale of electronic components and consumer electronic products. It operates through the Consumer/Information Products and Electronic Components segments. The Consumer/Information Products segment produces audio-visual and communications equipment; health and environmental devices; and information devices. The Electronic Components segment offers liquid crystal displays, solar cells, and other electronic devices. The company was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa on September 15, 1912 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.” “Sharp History In 1912, Tokuji Hayakawa (早川 徳次) founded a metal workshop in Tokyo. The first of his many inventions was a snap buckle named ‘Tokubijo’.…
Shanghai Construction Group Co., Ltd. history, profile and corporate video Shanghai Construction Group Co., Ltd. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of construction and engineering services. Its activities involve the provision of advisory and general contracting services, production of parts and components, leasing of machinery equipment, extraction and distribution of stone materials, development of real estate properties, and development and transfer of constructiontechnology. It also engages in domestic trading, urban infrastructure investment and construction, and expressway operation. The company was founded on June 15, 1998 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.” “Shanghai Construction History The company underwent fast paced growth when…