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HSBC, Airbus, Deutsche Telekom, AXA, Shell, Nestle, Barclays, Metro, L'Oreal, BP, Michelin, AstraZeneca, Air France, Christian Dior, Philips, Anheuser-Busch, Vo
by cdelsolar 4y ago
HSBC, Airbus, Deutsche Telekom, AXA, Shell, Nestle, Barclays, Metro, L'Oreal, BP, Michelin, AstraZeneca, Air France, Christian Dior, Philips, Anheuser-Busch, Vodafone, Lufthansa, Volkswagen, Siemens, Allianz, Bosch, Unilever, Maersk, Renault, Saint-Gobain, Bayer, Nokia, Ericsson, BT Group, Accenture, Madrigal Elektromotoren GmbH
- MockObject 4y agoYou do realize that by including companies from the 19th and early 20th century, you're agreeing with him?
- nix23 4y agoThey are all older then a decade (some more then 100 years), he's not wrong that europe has massive problems making "big new company's", however the conclusion that it has something todo with the ~absence of exploitation is probably wrong ;)
- sdze 4y agoEuropes business landscape is distinctively different. In Europe you have many small global champions (mostly specialized in something that only they can produce well) and only few Mega-Corporations compared to US or Asia. I think this is a better diversification than concentrating all GDP into a few big player.
- badwolf 4y ago"but europe didn't make facebook!"
- fbkr 4y ago> Madrigal Elektromotoren GmbH Wait, isn't this a fictitious company from breaking bad?
- cdelsolar 4y agoYeah I thought someone would get this (the only fake company on here).
- camjohnson26 4y agoAccenture came out of American firm Arthur Andersen which went bankrupt because of its involvement with Enron. It was incorporated in Bermuda, then moved to Ireland about 10 years later.
- jamiequint 4y agoHow many of those were founded in the last few decades? Also, not really sure how state sponsored airlines and telecoms are a great counterargument to Europe's failure to innovate.