$143B 2024 Revenue (USD) $39.89B Market Cap (Dec 2025) 194,173 Employees Worldwide 57th Fortune Global 500 1948 Year Founded Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ranks among the world’s largest automobile and motorcycle manufacturers. Founded in 1948 in Hamamatsu, Japan, the company grew from a small motorcycle engine workshop into a global mobility leader. Honda produces over 14 million internal combustion engines annually, making it the world’s largest engine manufacturer by volume. The company became the largest motorcycle producer in 1959 and has held that position for over six decades. Beyond vehicles, Honda manufactures aircraft through HondaJet, develops robotics including ASIMO, and…
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SAP SE history, company profile (overview) and history video SAP SE is a multinational software company headquartered in Weinheim, Germany. It produces software for the management of business processes, developing solutions that facilitate effective data processing and information flow across organizations. The name SAP is an initialism of the company’s original German name: Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung (System Analysis Program Development). Being an initialism, not an acronym, SAP is pronounced as individual letters (S-A-P), not as a word (“sap”). SOLUTIONS The company offers solutions across a wide range of areas: HISTORY SAP was founded in 1972 as SystemAnalyse…