Unilever

Profile : Unilever PLC is a British multinational consumer goods

company headquartered in London, England. Unilever products include
food, condiments, ice cream, wellbeing vitamins, minerals and
supplements, tea, coffee, breakfast cereal, cleaning agents, water and
air purifiers, pet food, toothpaste, beauty products, and personal care.
Unilever is the largest producer of soap in the world. Unilever's
products are available in around 190 countries. Unilever owns over 400
brands, with a turnover in 2020 of 51 billion euros, and thirteen brands
with sales of over one billion euros: Axe/Lynx, Dove, Omo/Persil,
Heartbrand (Wall's) ice creams, Hellmann's, Knorr, Lipton, Lux,
Magnum, Rexona/Degree, Lifebuoy, Sunsilk and Sunlight. Unilever is
organised into three main divisions: Foods and Refreshments; Home
Care; and Beauty & Personal Care. It has research and development
facilities in China, India, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the
United States.
In September 1929, Unilever was formed by a merger of the operations
of Dutch Margarine Unie and British soapmaker Lever Brothers.
Founder : William Lever
Current CEO : Alan Jope
Country: United Kingdom

Johnson & Johnson :

Profile: Johnson & Johnson is one of the oldest pharmaceutical
companies in the country. Known for developing medical devices,
pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods, J&J is home to well-
known products including Band-Aid bandages, Tylenol pain
medications, Neutrogena skin and body products, and Acuvue contact
lenses.
Founded in 1886
Founder: Robert Wood Johnson I, James Wood Johnson and Edward
Mead Johnson
Country: United States
Current CEO: Alex Gorsky

Procter & Gamble

Profile: The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American

multinational consumer goods corporation. It specializes in a wide
range of personal health/consumer health, and personal care and
hygiene products; these products are organized into several segments
including Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and
Baby, Feminine, & Family Care. Before the sale of Pringles to Kellogg's,
its product portfolio also included food, snacks, and beverages. P&G is
incorporated in Ohio.
Founded in 1837
Founder: William Procter
Country: United States
Current CEO: David S. Taylor
British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco plc (BAT) is a British multinational company

that manufactures and sells cigarettes, tobacco and other nicotine
products. BAT has operations in around 180 countries, and its cigarette
brands include Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Rothmans. Its
brands also include Vype and Vuse and Glo. AT has operations in
around 180 countries, and its cigarette brands include Dunhill, Kent,
Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Rothmans. Its brands also include Vype and
Vuse and Glo. BAT has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange
and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has a secondary listing on
the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. BAT plc ordinary shares are also
listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American
Depositary Shares.
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Founded in 1902
Founder: James Buchanan Duke
Country: United Kingdom
Current CEO: Jack Marie Henry David Bowles

Caterpillar
Profile: Caterpillar Inc. (often shortened to CAT) is an American Fortune
100 corporation that designs, develops, engineers, manufactures,
markets, and sells machinery, engines, financial products, and
insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network. It is the world's
largest construction-equipment manufacturer. In 2018, Caterpillar was
ranked number 65 on the Fortune 500 list.
Founded in 1890
Founder: C. L. Best
Country: United States
Current CEO: Jim Umpleby

Nestle

Profile: Nestle is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing

conglomerate corporation. It is the largest food company in the world,
measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014. The company grew
significantly during the First World War and again following the Second
World War, expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and
infant formula products. The company has made a number of corporate
acquisitions, including Crosse & Blackwell in 1950, Findus in 1963,
Libby's in 1971, Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, Klim in 1998, and Gerber
in 2007. Nestlé is known throughout the world for being a purveyor of
candy, but their empire expands far beyond confections. The
conglomerate also owns brands of bottled water, pet products, health-
care products, and frozen foods
Founded in 1866
Founder: Henri Nestlé
Country: Switzerland
Current CEO: Ulf Mark Schneider

McDonald’s

Profile: McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940

as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San
Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business
as a hamburger stand, and later turned the company into a franchise,
with the Golden Arches logo being introduced in 1953 at a location in
Phoenix, Arizona. In 1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the
company as a franchise agent and proceeded to purchase the chain
from the McDonald brothers. McDonald's had its previous
headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, but moved its global headquarters
to Chicago in June 2018. McDonald's is the world's largest restaurant
chain by revenue, serving over 69 million customers daily in over 100
countries across 37,855 outlets as of 2018. Although McDonald's is best
known for its hamburgers, cheeseburgers and french fries, they feature
chicken products, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, wraps, and
desserts.

Founded in 1940
Founder: Richard McDonald and Maurice McDonald.
Country:
Current CEO: Chris Kempczinski

Transcom

Profile: Transcom Group Limited is a Bangladeshi business

conglomerate. The businesses under this group include beverage,
pharmaceuticals, newspaper, radio channel, electronics, foods, etc.
Transcom is the local agent or comprador of international brands. This
group employs more than 10,000 people. Transcom Group is one of the
oldest and biggest companies in Bangladesh. Their operation in
Bangladesh initially started in 1985 as a tea plantation company. Some
of the foreign brands managed by the group include: Pepsi, 7Up,
Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, 7up Light, Aquafina, Sting,
Evervess, KFC, Pizza Hut, Philips N.V, Whirlpool, Maybelline, Garnier,
Heinz, Frito-Lay, Lindt, Servier, Novo Nordisk. Transcom Group also
owns two major newspapers, The Daily Prothom Alo and The Daily Star,
and an FM radio channel, ABC Radio, to advocate in favour of their
business policy.

Founded in 1985
Founder: Latifur Rahman
Country: Bangladesh
Current CEO: Jonas Dahlberg

Sony
Profile: Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation. As a
major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest
manufacturers of consumer and professional electronic products, the
largest video game console company and the largest video game
publisher. Through Sony Entertainment Inc, it is one of the largest
music companies (largest music publisher & second largest record
label) and the third largest film studio, making it one of the most
comprehensive media companies. It is the largest technology and
media conglomerate in Japan.
Founded in 1957
Founder: Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita
Country: Japan
Current CEO: Kenichiro Yoshida

KFC

Profile: KFC (also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken) is an American fast

food restaurant chain, Kentucky that specializes in fried chicken. It is
the world's second-largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after
McDonald's, with 22,621 locations globally in 150 countries as of
December 2019. The chain is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant
company that also owns the Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and WingStreet chains.
KFC's original product is pressure fried chicken pieces, seasoned with
Sanders' recipe of 11 herbs and spices. The constituents of the recipe
are a trade secret. Larger portions of fried chicken are served in a
cardboard "bucket", which has become a feature of the chain since it
was first introduced by franchisee Pete Harman in 1957. Since the early
1990s, KFC has expanded its menu to offer other chicken products such
as chicken fillet sandwiches and wraps, as well as salads and side dishes
such as French fries and coleslaw, desserts and soft drinks; the latter
often supplied by PepsiCo. KFC is known for its slogans "It's Finger
Lickin' Good!", "Nobody does chicken like KFC" and "So good".
Founded in 1952
Founder: Colonel Sanders
Country: United States
Current CEO: Tony Lowings

Pizzahut

Profile: Pizza Hut is an American multinational restaurant chain and

international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and
Frank Carney. It provides pizza and other Italian-American dishes,
including pasta, side dishes and desserts. The chain has 18,703
restaurants worldwide as of December 31, 2019, making it the world's
largest pizza chain in the number of locations. It is a subsidiary of Yum!
Brands, Inc., one of the world's largest restaurant companies. Pizza Hut
is split into several different restaurant formats: the original family-style
dine-in locations; storefront delivery and carry-out locations; and
hybrid locations that have carry-out, delivery, and dine-in options.
Some full-size Pizza Hut locations have a lunch buffet, with "all-you-can-
eat" pizza, salad, desserts, and breadsticks, and a pasta bar. Pizza Hut
has other business concepts independent of the store type.
Founded in 1958
Founder: Dan and Frank Carney
Country: United States
Current CEO: Artie Starrs

Apple

Profile: Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company

that specializes in consumer electronics, computer software and online
services. Apple is the world's largest technology company by revenue
(totaling $274.5 billion in 2020) and, since January 2021, the world's
most valuable company. As of 2021, Apple is the world's fourth-largest
PC vendor by unit sales and fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer. It
is one of the Big Five American information technology companies,
along with Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Facebook (Meta) and Microsoft.
It was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. in
1977 and sales of its computers, including the Apple II, grew quickly. It
went public in 1980 to instant financial success. Over the next few
years, Apple shipped new computers featuring innovative graphical
user interfaces, such as the original Macintosh, announced with the
critically acclaimed advertisement "1984".
Founded in 1976
Founder: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
Current CEO: Tim Cook
IBM

Profile: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an

American multinational technology corporation headquartered in
Armonk, New York, with operations in over 171 countries. The
company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York by trust
businessman Charles Ranlett Flint, as the Computing-Tabulating-
Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business
Machines" in 1924. IBM is incorporated in New York. IBM produces and
sells computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides
hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe
computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a major research
organization, holding the record for most annual U.S. patents
generated by a business (as of 2020) for 28 consecutive years.
Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the
floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational
database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and
dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The IBM mainframe,
exemplified by the System/360, was the dominant computing platform
during the 1960s and 1970s.
Founded in 1911
Founder: Charles Ranlett Flint
Country: United States
Current CEO: Ginny Rometty.
Toyota

Profile: Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational

automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It
was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937.
Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world,
producing about 10 million vehicles per year. The company was as a
spinoff of Toyota Industries, a machine maker started by Sakichi
Toyoda, Kiichiro's father. Both companies are now part of the Toyota
Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world. While still a
department of Toyota Industries, the company developed its first
product, the Type A engine in 1934 and its first passenger car in 1936,
the Toyota AA.
Founded in 1937
Founder: Kiichiro Toyoda
Country: Japan
Current CEO: TETSUO “TED” OGAWA

Ford

Profile: Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an

American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in
Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and
incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and
commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury cars under its
Lincoln luxury brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer
Troller, an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom and a 32%
stake in Jiangling Motors.[5] It also has joint-ventures in China (Changan
Ford), Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho), Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), Turkey
(Ford Otosan), and Russia (Ford Sollers). The company is listed on the
New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family; they
have minority ownership but the majority of the voting power. Ford
introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-
scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately
engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly
lines; by 1914, these methods were known around the world as
Fordism. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired
in 1989 and 2000 respectively, were sold to the Indian automaker Tata
Motors in March 2008. Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from
1999 to 2010. In 2011, Ford discontinued the Mercury brand, under
which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars in the United States,
Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938.
Founded in 1903
Founder: Henry Ford
Country: United States
Current CEO: JAMES D. FARLEY, JR

Microsoft
Profile: Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology
corporation which produces computer software, consumer electronics,
personal computers, and related services. Its best known software
products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the
Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web
browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game
consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal
computers. Microsoft ranked No. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings
of the largest United States corporations by total revenue; it was the
world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2016. It is considered
one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology
industry, along with Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Apple, and Facebook
(Meta).

Microsoft (the word being a portmanteau of "microcomputer

software") was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to
develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to
dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-
DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows.
Founded in 1975
Founder: Bill Gates, Paul Allen
Country: United States
Current CEO: Satya Nadella
Bashundhara Group

Profile: Bashundhara Group is a Bangladeshi conglomerate. It is one of

the largest manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. It began in 1987 as
a real estate company venture under the name East West Property
Development Ltd (EWPD). The first project of EWPD turned out to be
very successful. After then, the company grew very quickly. It presently
owns more than 50 major concerns located throughout Bangladesh.
Bashundhara Group (founded by Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and present
Chairman) began in 1987 as real estate venture.Sayem Sobhan Anvir is
the Managing Director of Bashundhara Group. Shafiat Sobhan Sanvir is
the Vice Chairman of Bashundhara Group. After its first successful
project, Bashundhara invested in new fields, including manufacturing,
industry and trading. More enterprises were established in the early
1990s; these included cement, paper, pulp, tissue paper and steel
production, as well as LP Gas bottling and distribution.
Founded in 1987
Founder: Ahmed Akbar Sobhan
Country: Bangladesh.
Current CEO: Safwan Sobhan.

Meghna Group

Profile: Meghna Group is one of the largest Bangladeshi conglomerates

The industries under this conglomerate include automobile, light
engineering (bicycle), cement, packaging, textile etc. Meghna Group
was established by Bangladeshi entrepreneur Mizanur Rahman
Bhuiyan. It is Bangladesh's largest bicycle manufacturer and said to be
sold in Bangladesh, as well as in countries like Germany, UK and other
parts of Europe. They are one of the top garments manufacturer in
Bangladesh exporting to Europe high end fashion brands. Meghna
Group has also invested in the leading private commercial bank in
Bangladesh (Prime Bank)
Founded in 1965
Founder: Dr. Alhajj Abdul Khalek Bhuiyan
Country: Bangladesh
Current CEO: