Key Stats $69.67B Revenue (FY2025) 779,000 Employees $156B Market Cap 120+ Countries Served NYSE: ACN Stock Exchange Accenture plc is a global management consulting and professional services company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations services to clients across more than 120 countries worldwide. Accenture serves clients in communications, media, technology, financial services, healthcare, and public service sectors. The company ranks among the world’s largest consulting firms by revenue and employee count. Its Fortune Global 500 clients rely on the firm for digital transformation, cloud migration, and artificial intelligence implementation. The company traces its…
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Aberdeen Asset Management Plc history, company profile (overview) and corporate video Aberdeen Asset Management Plc is a global investment management company headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, the United Kingdom. It offers clients access to emerging market equities and fixed income, multi-asset, real estate, and alternatives solutions. HISTORY Aberdeen Asset Management began in 1983 when a group of investors, including Martin Gilbert, bought out a £50 million investment trust in Aberdeen. In 1991, the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange under the name Aberdeen Trust PLC. In 1997, Aberdeen Trust PLC changed its name to Aberdeen Asset Management.…
ABB Ltd. history, company profile (overview) and history video ABB Ltd. is a global technology company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. OPERATIONS ABB operates through the following business areas: Electrification, Motion, Process Automation, and Robotics & Discrete Automation. Electrification The Electrification business segment offers a wide-ranging portfolio of products, digital solutions and services, from substation to socket. It offers EV infrastructure, solar inverters, modular substations, distribution automation, power protection, wiring accessories, switchgear, enclosures, cabling, sensing and control. Motion ABB’s Motion business is one of the world’s largest suppliers of drives and motors. It provides electrical motors, generators, drives…
3M Co. history, company profile (overview) and history video 3M Co. is a multinational conglomerate (a multi-industry company) headquartered in Maplewood, Minnesota, United States. It provides its solutions for customers through four business groups: Safety & Industrial, Transportation & Electronics, Health Care, and Consumer. It produces more than 60,000 products that are used in homes, businesses, schools, hospitals, and other industries. BRANDS ACE™ BrandCommand™ BrandFiltrete™ BrandFUTURO™ Brand3M™ Littmann® BrandNexcare™ BrandPost-it® BrandScotch® BrandScotch-Brite™ BrandScotchgard™ BrandScotch® Painter’s Tape PRODUCTS AbrasivesAdhesives, Sealants & FillersAdvanced MaterialsAutomotive Parts & HardwareBuilding MaterialsCleaning SuppliesCoatingsCompounds & PolishesDental & OrthodonticsElectricalElectronics Materials & ComponentsFilms & SheetingFiltration & SeparationHomeInsulationLab Supplies…
Colgate-Palmolive Co. history, company profile (overview) and history video Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer goods company headquartered in New York, NY, United States. It develops, produces, distributes, and sells health, hygiene, household, and pet nutrition products. BRANDS Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, the company sells its products around the world under some of the world’s most recognizable household names: Oral Care ColgateSorrisoTom’s of Maineelmexhello Personal Care PalmoliveProtexSanexSoftsoapSpeed StickLady Speed StickIrish SpringTom’s of MainePCA SKINFilorgaEltaMD Skin CareDanklorixfor the future NOW Home Care SuavitelMurphy Oil SoapPalmolive Dish SoapSoftlanAjaxFleecyPinho SolAxionSta-softFabulosoSoupline Pet Care Hill’s Pet…
Toyota Motor Corporation history, company profile (overview) and history video Toyota Motor Corporation (Japanese: トヨタ自動車株式会社) is a multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. Its main business activities focus on motor vehicle production and sales. Toyota Motor is part of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world. OTHER TOYOTA BUSINESSES Toyota has grown from its venture business roots into a variety of other fields beyond automobile manufacturing, including housing, financial services, communications, marine and biotechnology, and afforestation. Financial Services – Toyota Financial Services Corporation (TFS) provides financial services, mainly auto loans…
FIAT Group (Fiat S.p.A.) history, company profile (overview) and history video Fiat SpA (or Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) was an Italian holding company engaged in the automobile sector. The FIAT Group designs, produces and sells cars under the brands such as Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Fiat Professional, Abarth, Ferrari, Maserati, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Truck, and SRT. In addition, it also operates in the car components sector through Magneti Marelli, Teksid, Mopar and Fiat Powertrain Technologies and in the production systems sector through Comau. Fiat SpA is also active in the publishing sector through Editrice La Stampa SpA and in the…
$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…
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…