Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. (Grupo ACS) history, profile and corporate video ACS, Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. (Grupo ACS) is a Spanish company dedicated to the construction and services activities, with headquarters in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1997 through the merger of OCP Construcciones, S.A. and Ginés Navarro Construcciones, S.A. The ACS Group operates through the following business segments: Infrastructure, Industrial Services, and Services. Infrastructure The Infrastructure segment focuses on all types of Civil Works projects (development of infrastructures such as motorway, railway, maritime and airport works), Building (residential buildings, social infrastructure…
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Key Stats Founded: 1825 (Commercial Bank of Albany) Headquarters: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Total Assets: $187 billion (2024) Employees: 16,753 (2024) Market Cap: $25.5 billion (February 2026) KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) operates as the holding company for KeyBank National Association, a regional bank headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The company ranks as the 27th largest bank in the United States by total assets. KeyBank provides retail and commercial banking services through two segments: Consumer Bank and Commercial Bank. Its offerings include deposits, lending, mortgages, credit cards, wealth management, and investment banking through KeyBanc Capital Markets. The bank maintains nearly 1,000 branches and over…
NetEase, Inc. history, profile and corporate video NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese internet technology company with main domestic offices concentrated in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. It was founded in June 1997 by Chinese entrepreneur Ding Lei. The company provides online services centered around innovative and diverse content, community, communication, and commerce. It develops and operates some of China’s most popular mobile and PC-client games. In addition to its self-developed game content, NetEase partners with other leading game developers, such as Blizzard Entertainment and Mojang AB (a Microsoft subsidiary), to operate globally renowned games in China. NetEase’s…
Allergan Plc history, profile and corporate video Allergan Plc is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. It was formed in March 2015 through the merger of Irish-based Actavis Plc and U.S.-based Allergan, Inc. Allergan, Inc. The predecessor of the current company traces its roots back to 1948 when the pharmacist Gavin S. Herbert founded Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In 1991, Allergan acquired the company Oculinum, which manufactured products for eye muscle disorders. Following the acquisition, the product was renamed Botox. Actavis Plc The other predecessor of the current company traces its roots back to 1983…
Key Stats Moderna expected 2025 revenue range of $1.5 to $2.2 billion with majority concentrated in second half of year Cash and investments position of $8.4 billion as of March 31, 2025 Market capitalization approximately $10.44 billion as of October 2025 Company advancing up to 10 products toward approval including multiple oncology candidates Moderna RSV vaccine approved in approximately 40 countries with FDA approval for expanded age group 18-59 Moderna Inc is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on developing messenger RNA-based vaccines and therapeutics across infectious diseases, oncology, rare diseases, and autoimmune…
Lincoln National Corporation (LNC) history, profile and corporate video Lincoln National Corporation (LNC) is an American holding company headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was organized under the laws of the state of Indiana in 1968, but it traces its roots to its earliest predecessor, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, founded on June 12, 1905, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The name “Lincoln” was suggested by Perry Randall, a Fort Wayne attorney and entrepreneur, arguing that Abraham Lincoln’s name would powerfully convey a spirit of integrity. From 1998, the company started using the Lincoln Financial Group as the…
RELX Plc history, profile and corporate video RELX Plc, previously known as Reed Elsevier, is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools with headquarters in London, U.K. and Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was established as Reed Elsevier in 1992 through the merger of Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and Elsevier, a Netherlands-based scientific publisher. In February 2015, the company re-branded itself as RELX. Reed International Limited Reed International was founded in 1895 when Albert E. Reed established a newsprint manufacturing operation at Tovil Mill near Maidstone, Kent, England. Elsevier NV Elsevier…
Exor N.V. history, company profile (overview) and history video Exor N.V. is a holding company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and it is controlled by the Italian Agnelli family through the privately held company Giovanni Agnelli B.V. It has a history of investments running over a century, which include auto and truck manufacturers Stellantis, Ferrari and CNH Industrial, the global reinsurer PartnerRe, the football team Juventus F.C., the international newspaper The Economist, and the Italian media group GEDI Gruppo Editoriale. The company’s origins date back to the end of the 19th century when Giovanni Agnelli founded Fabbrica Italiana…
PPL Corporation Key Stats FoundedJune 4, 1920 HeadquartersAllentown, Pennsylvania Revenue (2024)$8.46 billion Utility Customers3.5 million (U.S.) NYSE TickerPPL PPL Corporation is a regulated energy company headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It delivers electricity and natural gas to customers across Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia, and Rhode Island through four regulated utility subsidiaries. The company traces its origins to June 4, 1920, when eight Pennsylvania utility companies merged to form Pennsylvania Power and Light. PPL reorganized as a holding company in 1995 and adopted the PPL Corporation name in 2000. PPL trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PPL. It reported…
Loews Corporation history, profile and corporate video Loews Corporation is an American diversified company headquartered in New York City, United States. It traces its roots back to 1946 when Laurence Tisch persuaded his parents to buy a resort hotel in Lakewood, New Jersey, for $125,000. Laurence’s brother Robert Tisch joined the business, and the two brothers began to invest their profits in expanding the hotel business. By 1956, they built their first hotel, the Americana in Bal Harbour, Florida, for $17 million in cash. In 1959, the brothers purchased a controlling interest in Loew’s Theatres from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer…