$23.74B 2024 Revenue (USD) $176B Market Cap (Dec 2025) 24,300 Employees Worldwide 243rd Fortune 500 Rank 1997 Year Founded Booking Holdings Inc. operates as the world’s largest online travel company by revenue. The company owns and operates several travel booking platforms including Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, and OpenTable. Founded in 1997 as Priceline.com, the company pioneered the “Name Your Own Price” model for travel bookings. Through strategic acquisitions, Booking Holdings now serves customers in over 220 countries through websites available in 40 languages. In 2023, consumers booked over 1 billion room nights through Booking Holdings platforms. The company generates revenue…
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Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. history, profile and history video Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (三井不動産株式会社) is a Japan real estate developer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It can trace its roots to the founding of the “Echigo-ya” clothing store in 1673 by Takatoshi Mitsui, founder of the House of Mitsui. In 1914, Mitsui Company and its real estate section was established. In 1941, Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. was established (wholly owned by the Mitsui family), after the separation of real estate division from the Mitsui Company. The company operates through the following business segments: Office Buildings, Retail Properties,…
Vivendi S.A. history, profile and corporate video Vivendi S.A. is a French media conglomerate headquartered in Paris, France. It can trace its roots to the founding of a water company named Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE) by an imperial decree of Napoleon III on 14 December 1853. In 1983, Compagnie Générale des Eaux helped to found Canal+, the first pay-TV channel in France, and in the 1990s, they began expanding into telecommunications and mass media. In 1998, CGE changed its name to Vivendi SARL. On 8 December 2000, Vivendi Universal SA was created with the merger…
Natixis S.A. profile and corporate video Natixis S.A. is a French corporate and investment bank headquartered in Paris, France. It was established in November 2006 through the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of Natexis Banque Populaire (Banque Populaire group) and IXIS (Groupe Caisse d’Epargne). The company operates through the following business lines: Asset & Wealth Management, Corporate & Investment Banking, Insurance, and Payments. Asset & Wealth Management The Asset & Wealth Management segment includes asset management within Natixis Investment Managers and wealth-management and financial solutions within Natixis Wealth Management. Corporate & Investment Banking…
SOMPO Holdings, Inc. history, profile and history video SOMPO Holdings, Inc., formerly NKSJ Holdings and Sompo Japan, is a Japanese insurance holdings company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It was established in April 2010 as NKSJ Holdings, Inc., and it is the result of a share exchange agreement between Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. and NIPPONKOA Insurance Co., Ltd., an agreement aimed at establishing a joint holding company. In 2014, the joint holding company NKSJ Holdings Inc. changed its name to Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings, Inc. In 2016, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings, Inc. changed its name to Sompo Holdings,…
Kinder Morgan, Inc. profile and corporate video Kinder Morgan, Inc. is an American energy infrastructure company headquartered in Houston, Texas, and specialized in owning and controlling oil and gas pipelines and terminals. It was founded in February 1997, when a group of investors led by Executive Chairman Richard D. Kinder and former Vice Chairman William V. Morgan joined forces and founded Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) by acquiring the general partner of a small, publicly-traded pipeline limited partnership (Enron Liquids Pipeline). The company’s pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, carbon dioxide (CO2), refined petroleum products, and other…
China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone Holdings Co., Ltd. (CMSK) profile and corporate video China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone Holdings Co., Ltd. (CMSK) is a real estate company headquartered in Shenzhen, China. It was founded in 1979, and is an important subsidiary of the China Merchants Group, which is a leading state-owned enterprise founded in the Westernization Movement in 1872. The company operates through the following business segments: Industrial Parks, Residential and Commercial Real-estate, and Cruise. Industrial Parks The industrial park development and operation segment concentrates on spatial planning, industrial clustering and services to promote industrial innovation, involving…
Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Bank BRI) profile and corporate video PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (People’s Bank of Indonesia), known as BRI, is an Indonesian bank headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was established in 1895, during the Dutch colonial period as De Poerwokertosche Hulp en Spaarbank der Inlandsche Hoofden (Help and Savings Bank for Purwokerto’s Aristocrats) by Raden Bei Aria Wirjaatmadja in Purwokerto, Central Java. The company operates through the following segments: Individual, MSME and Corporate. Individual The Individual segment involves accounts, deposits, savings, loans, mutual funds, pension funds, payments, and other banking services. MSME (micro, small…
CRRC Corporation Limited (China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation) history, profile and corporate video CRRC Corporation Limited (China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation) is a Chinese state-owned and publicly traded locomotive & rolling stock manufacturer headquartered in Beijing, China. It was founded on 1 June 2015 through the merger of CNR (China CNR Corp. Ltd.) and CSR (CSR Corp., Ltd.). The parent of the company is CRRC Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned holding company. Its predecessors: CNR Group (China Northern Locomotive & Rolling Stock Industry Corporation) and CSR Group (China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Corporation), once one company,…
CK Asset Holdings Limited history, profile and corporate video CK Asset Holdings Limited, previously known as Cheung Kong Property Holdings Limited, is a multinational property developer company registered in the Cayman Islands, and with its headquarters in Hong Kong. It was established in 2015 as part of a restructure of Cheung Kong Holdings Limited, by spinning off its property holdings into a separate company. Cheung Kong Holdings Limited Cheung Kong Holdings was a company founded in 1950 and one of Hong Kong’s leading multi-national conglomerates. It became part of CK Hutchison Holdings Limited after a major reorganization, which implies…