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Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. history, company profile (overview) and history video    Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. (迈瑞医疗国际有限公司) is a medical devices company headquartered in Shenzhen, China. It produces medical equipment and accessories for both human and veterinary use.    The company name “Mindray” is composed of mind and ray, which together means light of wisdom. HISTORY Mindray was founded in 1991 in the Financial Center on Taizi Road, Shekou, Nanshan District, Shenzhen. In 2006, Mindray was listed on the New York Stock Exchange as the first Chinese medical device company. It was delisted from…

CSC Financial Co., Ltd. (China Securities) history, profile and corporate video    CSC Financial Co., Ltd. (China Securities) is an investment bank, brokerage and asset management company headquartered in Beijing, China.    The predecessor of CSC Financial Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1992 as China Securities Co., Ltd. (CSC) (Chinese: Huaxia Securities).    Huaxia Securities eventually went bankrupt, and a new company, CSC Financial Co., Ltd., with the same English trading name China Securities but different Chinese name (Chinese: CITIC Jianyin Securities) was established in 2005 by CITIC Securities and China Jianyin Investment, as a successor of bankrupted China Securities…

Beijing Shougang Co., Ltd. history, profile and corporate video    Beijing Shougang Co., Ltd. is a steel manufacturer headquartered in Beijing, China. It was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 1999 and is a domestic subsidiary of the Shougang Group, founded in 1919.    The company possesses complete production processes including coking, ironmaking, steelmaking, rolling, heat treatment, and so on. It produces hot-rolled and cold-rolled sheets of every type and specification, among which its electrical steel, auto sheets, tinning sheets, pipeline steel, steel sheets for household appliances, and other high-end sheet products    Its auto sheet products achieve full…

Pioneer Natural Resources Company history, company profile (overview) and history video Pioneer Natural Resources Company is an exploration and production company in the oil and gas industry. It is headquartered in Irving, Texas, United States. HISTORY Pioneer Natural Resources Company was formed in 1997 by the merger of Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company and MESA Inc. At the time, MESA boasted heavy natural gas holdings and offshore drilling expertise. Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company was founded in 1962 by two West Texas oilmen, Howard Parker and Joe Parsley. They flipped a coin to determine whose name would…

Key Stats Founded: 1926 in Paris, France Headquarters: Houston, Texas (with offices in Paris, London, and The Hague) CEO: Olivier Le Peuch (since August 2019) Employees: Approximately 110,000 NYSE Ticker Symbol: SLB Schlumberger Limited operates as the world’s largest oilfield services company. The company provides technology solutions for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the global energy industry. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the SLB ticker. The company operates through four divisions: Digital and Integration, Reservoir Performance, Well Construction, and Production Systems. Schlumberger maintains operations in more than 100 countries with employees representing nearly 200…

Blackstone Inc. history, profile and corporate video Blackstone Inc. is a global investment company investing capital on behalf of pension funds, large institutions and individuals. It is headquartered in New York, United States. The company invests across the alternative asset classes in private equity, real estate, credit and hedge funds as well as in infrastructure, life sciences, insurance, and growth equity. HISTORY Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman. It was originally formed as a mergers and acquisitions advisory boutique. The founders had previously worked together at Lehman Brothers, where…

Key Stats Market capitalization stands at $1.62 trillion as of December 2025 Daily active people across all apps reached 3.35 billion in December 2024 Annual revenue for 2024 totaled $164.50 billion The company employs 74,067 workers worldwide Monthly active users surpassed 3.98 billion across the Family of Apps Meta Platforms, Inc. operates as a multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The company owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, serving billions of users globally through social networking and communication services. Originally founded as Facebook in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students, the company rebranded to Meta…

KKR & Co. Inc. history, profile and corporate video KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is a global investment company that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. It is headquartered in New York, United States. KKR invests across the alternative asset classes in private equity, real estate, credit and hedge funds as well as in infrastructure, energy, tech, health care, insurance and others. HISTORY Henry Kravis and George Roberts decided to found Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in 1976 over dinner at Joe and Rose…

Turkiye Garanti Bankas (Garanti BBVA) history, company profile (overview) and history video Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS, known as Garanti BBVA (formerly referred to as Garanti Bank), is a financial services group headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. The company operates in every segment of the banking sector, including corporate, commercial, SME, payment systems, retail, private and investment banking, together with its subsidiaries in pension and life insurance, leasing, factoring, brokerage and asset management, besides international subsidiaries in the Netherlands and Romania. HISTORY Garanti Bank was established in 1946 by 103 cofounders as a joint-stock company in Ankara. The founders…

OTP Bank Nyrt. (OTP Bank Group) history, profile and corporate video OTP Bank Nyrt. (OTP Bank Group) is a banking and financial services company headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. HISTORY The predecessor of OTP Bank, called the National Savings Bank (Országos Takarék Pénztár), was established in 1949 as a nation-wide, state-owned, banking entity providing retail deposits and loans. In the ensuing years, the bank was authorized to enter into real estate transactions, and extended to provide domestic foreign currency accounts and foreign exchange services. It also started providing banking services for Hungarian municipalities. Since 1989, the bank…