- Industry - Automobile/Automotive
- Location - Japan
- Employees - 316,121
- CEO - Akio Toyoda
- Stock Exchange Listing - TYO: 7203
Toyota is a multinational automaker company, and is considered the world’s largest automaker by sales as well as production. It was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spin-off from his father’s company Toyota. It created its first engine in 1934, and its first passenger car in 1936. Toyota Motor corporation group also includes companies like Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino Motors. In addition to manufacturing automobiles, Toyota provides financial services through its Toyota Financial Services division and also builds robots.
Toyota has still held its ground despite decreasing vehicle demands, a stronger Japanese Yen, and embarassing string of recalls that reached 10 million worldwide in 2010.
State Grid is the largest electric power transmission and distribution company in the world! It serves in China only, supplying power to millions. Since its founding in 2002, it has increasingly become involved in power industry reform, technology exchange and environmental conservation development.
Petro China is a state owned Chinese Oil and Gas company and it is China’s biggest oil producer. Traded in Hong Kong and New York, the mainland enterprise announced its plans to issue stock in Shanghai in November 2007, and following its debut on the Shanghai index, its market value tripled, making PetroChina the first company to reach a trillion dollar market capitalization.
Location - France
Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. is a large state-owned enterprise in Japan that deals with mail delivery, banking and insurance services. The organisation was ranked #6 in the Fortune Global 500 of 2010.
