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Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) history, profile and corporate video Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is an industrial bank headquartered in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It was founded on August 1, 1961, as a Small and Medium-sizes Business Bank. In 1978, the English bank name was changed to ‘Small and Medium Industry Bank’. In 1986, Korean Corporate Development Finance was established. In 1991, IBK Computing Development was established. In 1992, IBK Factoring was established. In 1997, it was changing from a government-invested company to a government-affiliated company. In 1999, IBK Capital was established…

Key Stats Ross Stores operates 2,273 locations across 44 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico as of October 2025. The company generated fiscal 2024 revenues of $21.13 billion, representing a 3.7% increase from the previous year. Ross Stores maintains a market capitalization of approximately $50.84 billion as of October 2025. The off-price retailer employs over 100,000 people across its operations in the United States and territories. Ross Stores targets long-term expansion to 2,900 Ross Dress for Less locations and 700 dd’s Discounts stores. Ross Stores operates as the largest off-price apparel and home fashion retailer in the…

Essity AB history, profile and corporate video Essity AB is a global hygiene and health company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It was formerly a part of the hygiene and forest products company Svenska Cellulosa AB (SCA) until 2017 when the company spun off the hygiene operations that became listed as a separate company. Svenska Cellulosa AB (SCA) was founded in Sweden 1929 as a forestry company. The company’s expertise in hygiene begins with the acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke in 1975. Through Mölnlycke, its roots stretch as far back as to 1849. In 1995, SCA…

Omnicom Group Inc. history, profile and corporate video    Omnicom Group Inc. is an American global media, marketing and corporate communications holding company, headquartered in New York City, United States. It was founded in 1986 when Allen Rosenshine, Keith Reinhard and John Bernbach (son of William Bernbach) co-created Omnicom in a three-way merger of BBDO Worldwide, Doyle Dane Bernbach and Needham Harper Worldwide. In July 2013, it was announced that Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group would merge to form Publicis Omnicom Group, but by May 2014 the deal had fallen through and the merger would not happen. Omnicom…

International Airlines Group (IAG) history, profile and corporate video    International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (IAG) is an Anglo-Spanish multinational airline holding company with its registered office in Madrid, Spain, and its global headquarters in London, England. It was established in January 2011 through a merger between British Airways and Iberia, the flag carriers of the United Kingdom and Spain, respectively. Both companies became wholly-owned subsidiaries of IAG. Since its foundation, the Group has expanded its portfolio of operations and brands by purchasing other airlines, such as BMI (2011), Vueling (2012), Aer Lingus (2015), and Air Europa (2020). It…

Metallurgical Corporation of China Limited history, profile and corporate video Metallurgical Corporation of China Limited is a metallurgical engineering and construction listed company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is a subsidiary of China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC), a Chinese state-owned enterprise engaged in ‘Four Sectors and Eight Types of Business’, taking engineering contracting, equipment manufacturing, resource development and real estate development as the ”sectors” and taking metallurgical engineering, high-end housing construction, mine construction and mine development, middle and high-end real estate, the infrastructure of transportation and municipal service, core technical equipment and MCC steel structure, environmental engineering and new…

Key Stats Market Cap: $38.44 billion (December 2025) Annual Revenue: $6.57 billion (2024) Infrastructure: 40,000+ cell towers, 85,000+ route miles of fiber Employees: Approximately 5,000 across nearly 100 offices Stock Symbol: NYSE: CCI Crown Castle Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates shared communications infrastructure across the United States. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company provides essential connectivity through its network of cell towers, small cells, and fiber systems. The company serves major wireless carriers including Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. These three carriers account for approximately 75% of Crown Castle’s revenue. The REIT structure allows…

Key Stats Founded: March 19, 2019 (spin-off from 21st Century Fox) Headquarters: 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY CEO: Lachlan Murdoch (Chairman and CEO since 2019) Employees: Approximately 10,400 NASDAQ Ticker Symbols: FOX, FOXA Fox Corporation operates as a major American mass media company focused on news, sports, and entertainment broadcasting. The company produces content through its primary brands including Fox News Media, Fox Sports, Fox Entertainment, Fox Television Stations, and Tubi Media Group. Fox Corp emerged in 2019 when The Walt Disney Company acquired the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox for $71.3 billion. The remaining broadcasting,…

Woori Financial Group, Inc. history, profile and corporate video Woori Financial Group, Inc. is a South Korean banking and financial services holdings company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It has a short history as a financial institution, being formed in 2001 through the forced merger of 4 predecessor commercial banks and an investment bank (Hanvit, Peace, Kwangju and Kyongnam Banks and Hanaro Investment Banking and their subsidiaries). The banks were taken over and recapitalized by the government because they had fallen below the Basel I Accord mandated eight percent capital adequacy ratio. The South Korean Government, through the…

CSL Limited is a global specialty biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1916 as the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, an Australian government body focused on vaccine manufacture. CSL Limited history, profile and history video CSL Limited was incorporated in 1991 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1994. Since then, CSL has acquired a number of companies. They include: the Bern-based ZLB Bioplasma AG, a Swiss plasma company; Aventis Behring, known as global biotechnology leader CSL Behring; U.S. plasma collector Nabi, which helped to form the world’s premier plasma collection company in…