A little tip: Companies cannot be assigned to countries based on where they have their headquarters. In Europe, many large companies have their headquarters in the Netherlands for tax reasons, but this does not mean that they are Dutch companies.
@@NLJeffEU No, it's just that--headquarters. Company is a little more than taxes (of course it shouldn't be that easy to move with that purpose): history, products, manufacturing, designing, whole philosophy (hard to talk about it in globalized economy, I know).
@@blinski1 no it literally means that a company is based on where it's headquater is... Royal Dutch Shell calls itself a british company.... Airbus calls itself a European company... DHL even though DHL was a dutch company before the German Postal Service took it over calls itself a German company...
It can be any way you want. For instance, Danish LM Windpower is the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbine blades, is currently French owned (GE Renewables) owned, has its headquarters in the Nederlands, but main production facilities in Denmark (and all over the world). And GE Renewables is owned by General Electric, an American company. Everywhere you look, it's still called a Danish company. But they might as well call it Dutch, French or American.
Airbus was formed out of the entire European aerospace market, with a bunch of European small players joining forces as Airbus. They are out of every corner of Europe, incorporated in the Netherlands for tax reasons. Their main aeroplane manufacturing and R&D is in Toulouse, France.
Used to live in Toulouse, it's really the French capital of aerospace, Airbus and the companies that work for them are the essential employers in the city, there are several labs and specialized engineering schools (at least two of them) in aerospace, the French equivalent of NASA has offices there etc. and really the city (now a little under 1 M inhabitants) has developed because of it. In Toulouse in 2022, approx. 17% of jobs in private companies were in companies related to aerospace.
Yeah it's more pan-European than any individual country and with the aim of competing with Boeing as none of the individual countries could so they pooled resources together, ESA did the same to compete with NASA, but in space terms, they cooperate on a lot of projects together.
Not formed. Grew.up to be. It was originally just two companies. Well. There wad a few more when the name came around. Technically the first airbus plane was the concorde. But that was before the brand airbus.
I'm guessing that Americans making assumptions everything is American is just being the part of the American bubble. At least, Ian already knew that Volkswagen, Audi, BMW and Bosch are German and IKEA is Swedish..
Yeah the surprise that Rolex is not american.... When it comes to watches is pretty much safe to assuem that all brands are Swiss (yeah I know that Timex is from US)
@@module79l28 But when Americans would be like: "Wait a minute... name like Bosch, Nestle, Husqvarna or Stihl doesn't sound American name" Well, Nestle might sound it could be an American brand, but American brands don't use accents marking on their names.
@@SiqueScarface Yes it’s in Espoo today but the roots go back to the small town called Nokia where the original Nokia AB (pulp mill) was founded in 1868.
Thinking Husqvarna is American is wild... But hey, when Americans invent words that "sound foreign" to sell their now fancier-sounding product like Haagen Dasz, all bets are off I guess.
Haagen was founded by a European born Polish man and he wanted to give it a Danish sounding name (probably more German-Polish sounding) as a tribute for Danes treatment off jews during WW2. But i get your point of it being a fairly poor international name.
To be fair, alot of immigrants came to the USA and made brands with their (non-English-sounding) name. But the same is true in Europe too. Citroën? French, but his grand-parents were from the Netherlands. Groupe Bull? French, but named after the Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull. Schneider Electric? Founded by the Schneider brother, from the Moselle region (doesn't help there were German companies also named Schneider) Thomson (now Technicolor)? French but named after Elihu Thomson (and started as a French brand of General Electric) Hotchkiss? American engineer who settled in Paris and created his gun (and later, car) manufacture in France.
@@Mamarozan So they chose a spelling that's unmistakably NOT Danish. The ä is not part of the Danish alphabet; and the sz combination is only used in loanwords or foreign names. Judging from the pronunciation, Häagen-Dasz could sound Hungarian, they do have â and the letter combination sz spronuced s - in Polish (which uses the sz quite a lot) it would sound like Dash.
Also worth remembering that a lot of the Montana and N/S Dakota area was settled by Scandinavians. Husqvarna isn't such a foreign-sounding name up there.
6:20 yes, T-mobile was created as a brand by Deutsche Telekom. We had the t-mobile brand as well in the early 2000s in Germany. The company Deutsche Telekom just chose to unify all their brands to Telekom apart from business brands like T-Systems. In the US they simply chose to keep the T-mobile name since that’s what their business was there. See, in Germany, the Deutsche Telekom company originally was just a branch of the state owned Bundespost, the federal postal service. They managed all the landline stuff and Telekom still does these things today, they’re the main provider in Germany. And since at 7:10 it mentions Deutsche Post owning DHL, Deutsche Post is actually the former Bundespost I just talked about. That’s our national postal service but also privatized now. So the former federally owned Bundespost split into two privatized businesses, one for postal services and one for telecommunications. Or rather three businesses, since there was a finance branch being privatized as „Postbank“.
funny thing is... the German state still holds like 30% stock in each... so technically... when americans make a phonecall on T-Mobile or send a package with DHL they directly support german healthcare and free education
I always bring up T-Mobile and France's Orange when people act like the UK was the only country to stupidly privatise its telecoms in the 90s, though it sounds like the way the Germans did it was rather more sensible if the state at least kept a significant stake in it.
As a UK guy, I dated a woman in Boston, MA who worked at the Boston office of Zurich Insurance. She worked for them and still thought they were an American company!
@@blechtic a subsidiary is not American just because it's registered there. As long as the founding company that owns it is not American, neither is the subsidiary. It is recognized as a legal American entity, but it's not an American company since its not a US citizen/government/company that owns it (or rather, that founded it and instills its values upon it).
@@Real_MisterSir If you're going by who owns it instead of which country can legislate its actions, then most larger companies are not American or from any single country.
1. Today’s Shell is a result of a merger in 1907. (Royal Dutch Petroleum + The Shell Transport & Trading Company, so a Dutch company and a British company) 2. Yes, everybody knows VW is German. However, they own several other brands, including Scania, Lamborghini, Škoda, Seat, and International Harvester, to name a few. 14. Yes, T-Mobile is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, which itself was created when it got de-merged with Deutsche Post in the early 90s. 21. Dalsey, Hillblom & Lynn started in San Francisco in the 60s. It was an American company until Deutsche Post bought the company over a four to five year period around the turn of the century. 29. I’d say Airbus is pan-European. Operational HQ is in Toulouse, France, but they have a fuselage factory in Germany, and a wing factory in Wales, among other facilities.
Oha, didn't know that VW owns Lamborghini too. I knew they owned Porsche though. Also, Airbus is actually an equally merged company from France and Germany, the respective production HQ in each country produced different parts. Later some other european smaller companies joined in, mainly a UK company. They have their official HQ in Netherlands though, cause taxes. The joined companies were not swallowed up, but each contribute to the Airbus production on their own.
and airbus's Headquarters are in the Netherlands, where part of its electronics are made as well by the former Fokker Shell is since shortly not dutch anymore due to them leaving the dutch headquarters
you say VW owns international harvester, but that's only partly true, since IH's farm equipment business is Case IH nowadays. However, VW owns navistar and therefore international bus and truck as well as their scout SUVs.
- Company has a German name. - 'murican: Wow, I didn't know they were German! - Company is named after Switzerland's largest city. - 'murican: Wow, are you really Swiss?
And then there are companies with German names that are American. Relax 🙄 Just try to have some empathy. _So many_ Americans have European names for obvious reasons.
And where invented in Sweden by a company named GEA, the bricks were named "Automatic Binding Bricks", A danish guy bought the whole concept and named it LEGO.
About 15 years ago, I worked for an American company (Diebold) in the Netherlands. We had an American director for some time. He mentioned that we had great navigation systems in Europe, but then said "of course we (the Americans) have TomTom". He was astonished when I informed him that TomTom is actually Dutch. Why do Americans so often assume that anything that is good must automatically be American?
I knew a guy who swore down that Kit Kat was American just because it was made by Hersheys. I gave up trying to explain what made under licence meant and told him if he didn't stop arguing about it I'd shove a Kit Kat so far up his arse and make him tell me how many fingers it had!
yap it was originally called the machete de braga. in 1879 when Portuguese came to Hawaii they brought that instrument with them. Ukelele is just the Hawaiian name of tha instrument. but its indeed identical. but its not strange that this happened. most stuff in the US comes from europe anyway. most "Typical" American stuff are all from Europe. Bowling for example comes from the Netherlands. We used to play 9 pin over here (kegelen in Dutch). we brought that over to New York and over time it evolved into 10 pin bowling.
@@metalvideos1961 See, we're always learning in this channel. Never crossed my mind for bowling to be a Dutch game. The least you expect, you're learning something new. Amazing.
@@paulocarvalho6480 haha i know right. do you know as well that we Technically created Christmas? also i dont know if you know about the sport Curling? there is some speculation that we invented that as well.
Both Unilever and Shell are British/Dutch. Both headquarters moved out of the Netherlands recently. Stellantis is French/Italian but their hq moved to the Netherlands recently.
If you look in street view at the address of the Stellantis Coporate Office you will see a small office building, which is shared by a number of companies. Stellantis is what we call a "letter box" company. it just has a postal address in The Netherlands so that it can claim to operate from the Netherlands and receive certain tax benefits from the Dutch government. This is one of the reasons that the Netherlands is called a Tax Haven by other countries, as just registering your company over here, which a small presence, already gives you these massive tax benefits without actually having to move large numbers of personnel over to the Netherlands.
fun fact, Ford got the offer to get the Volkswagen werke for free after ww2, if they would keep the factory running. but Henry said " that deal is not worth a dime"
Ford had their own massive plant in Germany. Henry Ford got awards from the German government in the 1930’s for expanding it and his other contributions to the Nazi party.
It’s quite common for people in the States to just assume that so many big corporations are from the US. I’m from the USA but I’ve been living overseas since the 90s. I don’t call myself “American” anymore because I’ve heard a lot of people overseas saying WTF? American can be applied to anyone from North or South America. So it’s kind of rude for us to claim the title American when Canadians, Mexicans, Argentinians, Brazilians etc are also Americans
That makes no sense. I am Greek and I am European, the Spanish are also European, as well as all the other European countries. Europe is the continent, America is two continents. So it makes sense to call yourself American
Ten brands from five European countries belong to the Group: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, ŠKODA, SEAT, CUPRA, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Porsche and Ducati. In addition, the Volkswagen Group offers a wide range of other brands and business divisions.
@@LoFiAxolotl No Wrong unfortunately the other way around, look it up Porsche Holding: Let us introduce ourselves! Porsche Holding, based in Salzburg, is the largest and most successful automobile trading company in Europe. As a 100% subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, our focus is on the Group brands Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Porsche as well as Bentley, Lamborghini and Ducati.
@@LoFiAxolotlThats not right Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedekind want to by VW but he makes mistakes at the Stock Market ,thats cost a Lot of money and the VW CEO Ferdinand Pirch( His Family ist one of the biggest Share holders of Porsche.) . Instead VW bought Porsche
@@notdirsale7426 Google Porsche AG... and then Porsche Automobil Holding... Porsche AG is owned by Volkswagen... Porsche Automobil Holding owns like 52% of Volkswagen... Porsche Owns Volkswagen which is owned by Porsche... Porsche AG is the company making the cars... Porsche Automobil Holdings is a holding company owned by the Porsche Family... it's literally the biggest meme in the history of modern economics
Rolex began in London, UK and was founded by a German immigrant, but the company moved to neutral Switzerland after the outbreak of WW1 and anti-German feelings in the UK.
It's easy with shell. In the Netherlands they needed to pay taxes and in the uk they actually got 255mil from the taxpayer since they left the Netherlands.
It had to do with shareholder taxes that was difficult to orgenize for Shell and Unilever thats why they chose to move to GB because they had simpler rules. The developmemt company of Shell is still based in the Netherlands because they have a lower tax rate in the Netherlands.
Husqvarna is actually located (and named after) the small town my mom grew up in, called Huskvarna. I own a couple of their old shotguns and of course lawnmowers, motorcycle, a boat engine and a chainsaw plus various tools and things. The factory is still there, pumping out high quality stuff. The museum there is also quite spectacular with some amazing guides.
I`m the third generation owning a Husqvarna sewing machine. My grand mother had an old non electric machine I learn how to sew on my mothers electric machine and now I have an computerized sewing machine/embroidery machine from Husqvarna. The best machines with the longest durability
Are you ready for more? The legendary US brands are now European: check Browning and Colt - HQ are in Belgium and Czech republic. Browning is owned by FN Herstal , Colt By CZ.
Royal Dutch Shell is dutch but moved its headquarters for tax purposes. same reason why Ikea is a swedish company but has it's headquarter in the Netherlands.
No, Shell is British. Up until 2022 it was dual listed as both Dutch and British companies with separate shares, but they recently merged and became one British company : Shell PLC.
I’m from S Wales and in 1999 my employer British Telecom moved to Amsterdam to work for their Dutch subsidiary. I lived in the centre of Amsterdam on the Brouwer’s Gracht canal, there are large network of canals here so DHL delivered parcels here by canal boat. The roads there are very narrow but the canals are wider, they had DHL livered boats and crew who would hop off a parcel to a property, business or residential, hop back onto their boat and on to the next drop off point. We had a new large Bosch factory here near Llantrisant just off the M4 motorway. In Wales, especially the south, we call a sink “the Bosch”. One of local cartoonists drew a picture of the site and was showing his wife “Look. I told you this was where our sinks are made.” We used to get a French lemonade called Pschitt, supposed to represent the noise you got when you opened the bottle. Irn Bru, supposedly made from iron girders, is a bigger seller in Scotland then Coca Cola.
The former Dutch Queen Wilhelmina had more than 25% shares in the former Royal Dutch Shell and earned billions of dollars. Under pressure from the Dutch government, the Dutch royal family had to relinquish their shares. According to insiders, the royal family chopped the shares into small pieces and regained possession through unknown detours. Queen Beatrix was good friends with the oil sultanates of Oman, Brunei, and Bahrain, where Shell has many refineries.
Fun fact: the "Uni"-part of Unilever actually originated in the town I live, Oss. First two competing margerine factories from Oss merged into Margarine Unie and then took over a third company also from Oss. And just a few years later they merged with Lever Brothers and became Unilever. Not that we have that much to show for it almost a century later, we only have a Unox factory, and still some of th old buildings remain.
Airbus is the first real European company . In this company France, Spain and Germany stick their Air-defense company together . It starts at European Aeronautic Defence and Space EADS. T-mobile is a part of Telekom. It is the privatized part of the Deutsche Post (German postal Service).
8:58 Airbus is a European consortium whose ownership is divided between the French, German, Spanish goverments, wich is a 26% of the ownership, and the rest of the shareholders, wich includes the employees of the company. ⬇ The "tax headquarters" of Airbus is in the Netherlands because of the low cost of corporate taxes there, however, the "Civilian arm" is headquartered in Tulouse, France and the "Military and Space arm" has it's headquarters in Getafe, Spain.
My father was an engineer who worked for Husqvarna for almost 40 years, heading the chainsaw prototype workshop for much of that time, turning blueprints into prototypes. He took me to the plant a few times, where chainsaws, sewing machines, lawn mowers and exclusive hunting rifles and shotguns were made. My brother worked there for a few years, too.
Someone who was also involved in the oil business was Wilhelm Anton Riedemann. The inventor of the tanker and co-founder of ESSO (Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft (DAPG) is a German petroleum company founded in 1890, which has been called Esso since 1950 and Esso Deutschland GmbH since 1999 and is a subsidiary of the US ExxonMobil Group.) came from my home town in Germany. He was so rich that he had a huge palace built. In comparison, a villa looked like a servant's quarters.
- More or less all the luxury watch brands are from Switzerland, majority from Geneve. - Husqvarna has always mostly been known for their bad ass dirt bikes, here in europe. - You should defenitely try Cockta, which you skipped when looking at different countries. It's the most unique tasting cola-ish drink you will ever try. It contains different herbs, which makes sense, being from Slovenia, the land of herbs and bees.
The more videos I see from you, the more I worry about what Americans actually know!... not just pretending to know, but really knowing. And shockingly, that doesn't just affect the knowledge of the origin of companies - I'm speechless... more or less.
A fun bit of information about Volkswagen.... Porsche owns Volkswagen which owns Porsche... in the early 2000s Porsche was broke so they started selling stocks of the Porsche AG... which Volkswagen happily bought.... which made the Porsche SE the parent company of Porsche AG so much money that they started buying Volkswagen.... and to this day... Porsche AG is a subsidiary of Volkswagen while Volkswagen is owned by Porsche SE
We now basically have the same in Denmark just with one of our big supermarket chains and a gas station. Okay so here we go COOP Danmark (Operating company of COOP amba in Denmark) owns 600 something gas stations that are operated by OK (Operating company of OK amba) and COOP amba owns approx. 20% of OK amba that way. Now it is getting even more complicated as not that long ago, OK amba brought approx. 50% of COOP Danmark (The operating company of COOP amba)... Oh and "amba" means it is a cooperative owned by members which is customers so COOP owns a majority of OKs gas stations, COOP also owns 20% of OK, who owns 50% of COOP and both companies are then owned by more than 2 million Danes. Now that is what I call complicated
Some Spanish companies: Repsol (stress on the 'o') is a petrol company. If you watched Dr. House series, he rode a Honda CBR with the Repsol decorations on it. Movistar is a telecom company, very present all around LatinAmerica under that same brand and a few others. I worked there for 33 years. Zara is part of the Inditex group which owns quite a big number of clothing brands.
The way Americans say Husqvarna always cracks me up haha. In the Swedish pronunciation, "Hus" is pronounced sort of like hoose (think loose). Literally means house. Another thing that fucks it up for English speakers is that Swedish is a pitch language, and in qvarna the stress is on both a's, but it rises on the first and falls on the second. Hoose-kvaar-nah. (Say it in the front of your mouth and you'll be there).
The name is a combination of "hus" (in this case meaning a fort or fortress) and "kvarn" (mill, in this case a watermill). The nearby waterfall was used to power the first mills in the area, and the fort (Rumlaborg) was built in the 1360s as a defense against Danish invaders.
AFAIK the u is more or less Japanese style and non-existent in English language. Between German u and ü or French ou and u. IMHO any instructions in "English" don't make sense: marry merry Mary, if you will. [ˈhʉ̂ːsˌkvɑːɳa] Having said that i suggest a grain of salt being not a native in any of those languages.
To make matters even worse, the rising and falling of pitch differentiate between dialects. The way you describe does not represent how we say it where I come from (start neutral on Hus, go down a little on kvarn, and rise to a higher pitch on the last a), but that's ok. Dialects are fun and I'm happy we have them!
Opel (rebranded to Vauxhall in Britain) is also a part of Stellantis, they were a part of GM since 1929 and then were sold off to PSA in 2017. They did a lot of rebranding, the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia was also the 5th and 6th generation of the Buick Regal or the Chevrolet Captiva (made in South Korea, former Daewoo) compact SUV was rebranded as the Opel Antara in Europe, however in Germany the Captiva was also offered and sold better than the Opel. DHL was originally American, founded in 1969 based in San Francisco, but the Deutsche Post (former Bundespost - federal postal service) bought them in 2002 and "germanized" them, moved the DHL headquarters to their existing HQ in Bonn (former German capital, parliament and many ministries moved to Berlin in the 1990s but there are still some in Bonn), also harmonized their coporate design - the "DHL" logo got a brighter red and post-yellow background. E.ON originated from the merger of multiple companies mainly VEBA (United Electricity and Mining Co.) and VIAG (United Industrial Companies) in 2000, also the VIAG had the subsidiary VIAG Interkom which got rebranded to O2 in 2002. The mobile network service providers (except the Telekom/T-Mobile) also have weird origin stories, they mostly originated from industrial companies that were kinda conglomerates (with branches in multiple different sectors), German Vodafone originally was Mannesmann and the Mannesmann brothers invented a method to make seamless steel pipes/tubes in the 1880s, they then launched the second GSM network (after Telekom) called "D2" in the mid-90s and then got bought by British Vodafone in 2000 and that is to this day the largest acquisition ever with a value of 190 billion Euros (not sure if adjusted for inflation, Dollar Value would also be around 150-200 billion, Activision Blizzard was "only" at around 70 billion USD). And as said, O2 former VIAG Interkom was also founded by a company with some industrial background (bought by Spanish Telefonica in 2006) and E-Plus (they merged their Network with O2 in 2014) was also founded by industrial and energy companies. You know why Audi has the four rings? It was the brand logo of "Auto Union" an amalgamation of four brands in 1932 and the first German automotive conglomerate, the rings symbolize Horch, Audi (the founder is August Horch, he got kicked out of Horch and then took the latin term "audi!" which means "listen!" for his new company), DKW (steam-powered car, they also built motorcycles) and Wanderer (they also built bicycles (you can still buy Wanderer-branded bicycles) and typewriters). It was still called Auto Union after WWII, moved to west germany but then faded in the 1960s and the whole company was fully renamed to Audi in 1985 (however there's still a Auto Union subsidiary that's the heritage department of Audi). AFAIK they began to use the "Horch" name for a even more luxury version of the A8 for China a few years ago, similar to the Maybach S-Class (or the highest trim level at Skoda is "Laurin & Klement", one of the Skoda Auto origins), but I don't understand why they only do that in China where Horch is probably completely unkown.
Glencore IS a Swiss company, founded by Marcel David Reich, borned in the Netherlands and died in Switzerland. He also had the Belgian, US, Israeli and Spanish citizenship.
When i lived in south west Germany i was amazed how many simple job offers i got from companies like Stihl, Bosch and car test driving companies and so on... What seems like dream jobs in other countries, are lower jobs there. And yes, Shell was dutch.. just like the huge Unilever before they went to the UK with their hq. Allianz you might know from sponsorships on cars. (And its pronounced like "alleyahntz")
HQs are in Austria. Production is in Austria. Plus their international success never would have happened without the Austrian Didi Mateschitz. And they know it.
Funny fact. KIT KAT was originally British as it was made by Rowntree Macintosh. They were taken over by Nestle in the mid 1990s. Tesco had a store concept in the USA called Fresh and Easy, it sold it. HSBC, are a bank, it stands for Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Was originally a Hong Kong based company but in 1997 they moved their head office to the UK.
The inventor Emil Lerp, founder of the Hamburg company Dolmar, brought the first mass-produced gasoline-powered chainsaw onto the market in 1927 (Type A). The saw had to be operated by two people and could only make vertical cuts. Stihl built the first chainsaw with an electric motor for use in cutting areas (where logs are cut into pieces) in 1926. One-man chainsaw (EMS) at the end of the 1950s. First Models of this type built were the Dolmar CF from Germany in 1957, the Rex from SOLO in 1958 and the Contra from Stihl from Germany in 1959. The one-man chainsaw significantly increased productivity when harvesting wood.
Hey, related to the soft drinks at the end of the video, it might be fun to check the Orangina commercials. They are... well known for being quite unique.
If you wanna try Paulaner Spezi, the Softdrink, look out for Paulaner Sunset. That's what its called in the US, sold in 0.33l bottles (whatever that's in oz😅)
The biggest company of the Netherlands at the moment, is called ASML. It used to be a daughter company of Dutch tech giant Philips, until they went solo. They now a have monopoly on the technology that produces microchips. Their biggest costumers are companies like Samsung and TSMC. Without this company, the current generation of microchips would not exist.
ASML while maybe one of the most important companies in the world in our day and age... it's not a "famous" company... and Philips kinda dead... they probably still trying to sell VHS tapes (they literally lost like 50% of their value a year ago after a big recall)
Philips went full on out of the consumer market and into the health market, but had one department screw up big time resulting in major losses. It is still a pretty large player though. ASML is one you never hear of, except in the context of an economic war with China. The same goes for NXP Semiconductors. Those two alone could stop the entire tech industry if they wanted to.
@@Foersom_ And they also bought Freescale some time ago, which itself was spun out of Motorola. And besides NXP, ST Microelectronics (one of the largest microcontroller manufacturers after NXP) is also European.
Royal Dutch Shell WAS a company out of the Netherlands. But since they moved to the headquarters to the UK they are now only Shell. Airbus is a European company - main parts are in Hamburg (Germany/production/assembly), Toulouse (France/headquarters), Filton/Broughton (UK/ wings), Puerto Real/Illiescas/Getafe (Spain/ tail (rudder/fin)) There are more production places for Airbus all over Europe for example Germany has 6 more production places beside Hamburg.
You might be interested to know that the number one tyre manufacturer in the world is actually LEGO. The number of LEGO tyres made outstrips all other tyre manufacturers around the globe.
That is one of those thing they say but is not really true. There is a few issues wirh the statlemr.. Firstly production numbers is never what counts as making a company large, ira market cap. Secondly they are not really defined as tires.
@@kevin_mitchell A lot of matchbox cars are driven by children. Parents are not going to take any chances on such a safety critical part of the vehicle for their kids.
LEGO, the most annoying toy to step on, is 100% Danish and the world's largest toy manufacturer. All LEGOs are to this day still produced in Billund, which is 54km from where I live.
Lego has 7 manufacturing plants on 3 different continents, it's been a while since everything was produced here in Denmark. In fact the largest factory they have currently is one in Mexico.
Regarding the soda drinks at the end of the video, the Spanish brand KAS, founded in 1956, was acquired by PepsiCo in 1991/1992. Pepsi commercialised Kas products in Spanish market while using the Mirinda brand worldwide.
Europeans also pillaged and stole the American continent from the natives and declared it America, later on USA. So the entire USA is European made. I bet they don`t teach that in school. In Europe we learnt that in middle grade class. Great video as always.
Even for the American school system it's a pretty bold assumption that they wouldn't teach the literal creation of the country and in Europe the schooling most likely wildly varies depending on whether it's a country that had something to do with it or not.
My guy, its impressive to see how much knowledge you absorber and retained over the years on this channel. Your pronunciation, knowledge of history, all on point. You know more about Europe than most europeans 💪
Tesco left the US in 2013. And IKEAs logo used to be white on red. The crowns on Husqvarnas logo is a gun sight if you look at it. And their motorcycle division is now owned by KTM.
Spezi is a 50/50 mix of coke and fanta (the European kind). So a lot of people in Germany buy large bottles of both coke and fanta and then drink either just the way it is or make Spezi.
T-Mobile US is indeed a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. They're using the T-Mobile brand is over a dozen countries. And DHL is not just German, they're owned by the German postal service. Airbus is legally headquartered in the Netherlands, but their operational headquarter is in France. I'm surprised they didn't pick Capri Sun for a German soft drink. I thought it would be way more popular internationally than Spezi. Maybe they were only going for carbonated soft drinks, but even then it's an unusual choice
it seems more like a list of exclusive drinks from those countries.... something like orangina with the pulp still in you really don't find anywhere... same with Spezi or kokola... they're really unique to their countries... while Capri Sun is just sugar that once saw a fruit with a few drops of water in there
Airbus is originally a company based on Fokker VFW and some France companies. At the time i was working for Fokker we did work on the Airbus project. Its a Dutch, German and France company. But know there are a lot of other European countries involved
Ppl dont recognize it as german. I realized here today. Probably because of the english name. German corporations are good in hiding their origin behind an english appearance. So ppl have no clue what percentage of "their" economy is german in fact.
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@@gino_58_nl24 MBB (Germany) was also a founding member.
IKEA is pronounced EE-KAY-AH over here. Their headquarters are not in Sweden, but in the Netherlands. It works the other way around too; Shell and Unilever are Dutch, but they went to the UK. These corporations go anywhere to lower their tax obligation.
11:23 I saw a reaction video on an American young dude, watching a rally video for the first time. When he saw a WRC1 Ford with a big Red bull ad all over it, he instantly concluded that must have been an American driver. I had to comment, that small Fords are not designed and manufactured in the US, and that Red Bull is Austrian. He never replied...
Sumol (in Portugal) is more advertised (and probsbly drank) in Orange flavour. But for me, it's Sumol Ananás (Pineapple), cold (of course!) in a summer afternoon.
Despite nestle being swiss, a few of their chocolate brands are actually from the UK, like Kit Kat, Aero, Caramac, Rolo, Quality Street amongst many others are from where Nestle acquired companies such as "Mackintosh's" and "Rowntree's" which were both uk company, meaning despite the main company being "Swiss" it doesn't take away that these were created in the UK (also Nesquik for example is from the US)
The Nesquik one is a tricky one. Yes it was created for the US market, but it was created by Nestle (under the name Nestle Quik) and then introduced into other countries. So yeah kinda American but also kinda Swiss.
Nestle and Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) both have an insane amount of brands they own nowadays. It's kind of horrific how big they are. They pretty much own all European choc brands together. Some outliers still exist, like Fazer from Finland, but it's becoming really rare.
@@esaedvik Mondolez sold their chocolate flavoured milk brands Kaba (German), Suchard-Express (Swiss), and Benco (French) and the chocolate brands Chocolat Suchard (Swiss) without their main brand Milka, and Terry's (British) to investment company Eurazeo that formed the French confectioner Carambar. Carambar sold Kaba, Suchard-Express and Benco to the German company Krüger, owner of brands like Trumpf, Mauxion, Fritt, Schogetten, Sodapop and Aero chocolate. So, at least in Europe we have beside Nestle and Mondolez other big chocolate and chocolate drink companies like Carambar, Unilever, Krüger, Barry Callebaut, Baronie and Lindt & Sprüngli.
@@Dreyno I'm at a loss too. When did a geographical limit stopped being a location ? I don't think you need to pinpoint the exact space time coordinates of a place for any location to be "a place".
@@Dreyno Europe is a place, The EU is a trading group turned into a dictatorship, It is not a country or state as yet, having a wank flag does not a country maketh, come back when the EU has one police force, one health service, one army, one language, one government etc etc etc
Shell headquarters moved recently from the Netherlands to the UK. Purely for financial reasons (taxes). It was (is) a Dutch company. You only have to look in Rotterdam large refining plants from Shell are located there. But moving to the UK git them lower taxes to pay.
17:00 The spezi in that picture is basically just a mix between cola and fanta so you could mix it yourself. It was so popular in german speaking countries that the coca-cola company actually made a new drink (originally) only for the west german market in the 70's called mezzo mix.
It blew your mind that these brands weren't American, it blew my mind that you thought they were American. Especially Rolex. You can pretty much guarantee that high end watches are swiss, that's just common knowledge.
Actually Red Bull is originally from Thailand although the Thai versions of Red Bull would not be legal to sell in many countries. Red Bull comes in tiny 4.9 fl oz bottles in Thailand, and has 2 strengths. Regular is the equivalent of 24 cups of coffee, while the super version is the equivalent of 32 cups of coffee. Even in Thailand, where there is no health and safety, doctors say do not drink more than 2 Red Bulls in a 24 hour period. It makes an American or European energy drink look like distilled water.
Securitas, ABB, IKEA, H&M, AstraZeneca, Volvo Group, Assa Abloy, Loomis, Hexagon, Skanska, Ericsson, Autoliv, Atlas Copco, Investor, The Absolut Company AB and SKF some other Swedish companies.
You were asking about Shell - They used to be Royal Dutch Shell but moved from the Netherlands to Uk in 2022 and changed their name to just Shell. The Dutch courts had ruled that they needed to almost halve their greenhouse gas emissions. Shell are currently trying to sue Greepeace so that they can continue to cause more damage in the climate crisis and make vast profits at the expense of the environment. As with all fossil fuel companies they spend vast amounts of money trying to spread doubt about the damage they do - just like the Tobacco companies did. Nestle are not much better as they peddle junk food and UPF that has caused such catastrophic effects on people's health. All in all most of these huge conglomerates are not very nice.
@@petersteinmeijer519 Didn't stop the British hating American president Barak Obama from constantly referring to BP as British Petroleum every time he tried to pass the blame for that oil disaster on them despite the oil rig being built in Norway and the majoriy of rig workers being American.
Glencor is well known in mining in Australia with 22 mines. Alliance is one of the main re insurance companies in Australia. You might buy an insurance policy from a major grocery company for example, but the policy is actually with Alliance. The actual headquarters of many of these companies is due to reduced taxation. Airbus for example mainly builds planes in France, but its headquarters is in Netherlands. eBay
Shell has been a Dutch-British cooperation from the beginning, but it used to be a Dutch company until it moved it's headquarter to the UK for tax and legal reasons very recently. Their main operation is still from the Netherlands I guess, because of Rotterdam. Airbus is mostly legally registered in the Netherlands for tax or French-German neutrality or something. Netherlands is an attractive country for Intellectual Property law especially in relation to tax too apparently. There is a research division there too but Airbus manufacturing is not happening there.
Husqvarna is the main sponsor of my favorite hockey team HV71 (Husqvarna Vätterstad 71) and the reason for that name is because Husqvarna is also a region of the city Jönköping wich lies just underneath the lake Vättern and therefor vätterstad. City in swedish is stad, dunno why I wanted to say that but when I nerd out I have to lol. Also I used to pack tools for the chainsaws from Husqvarna.
For a reverse-mind-blow (sounds wrong...): Ford, an obviously american company, has been producing in Cologne in Germany since before WW2. After the war broke out, Ford, the awesome capitalists that they are, just kept producing (war is apparently good for business) and - increasingly over the next 6 years - military stuff in particular, like halftracks and engines. So essentially Ford, as a company, literally got money from both sides of the war.
@@frontwing67 same thing happened to the Triump marque which is owned by BMW. They kept it off the market because they didn’t want it to compete with the Z3
Shell used to be Dutch but some years ago Brits bought a majority of the shares and headquarters was moved some time later from the Netherlands to the UK.
Shell did not move to England because brits bought an majority but simply for taxreasons. A majority of the shares are still Dutch. The same happend to Unilever. BTW, Since Shell moved their headquarters to London it is NO LONGER Royal Dutch. They lost the "royal" title.
Bosch is quite interesting as it. Is owned by the Robert Bosch Foundation. The profits are used to conduct and finance social, cultural and scientific projects, in accordance with the wishes of Robert Bosch
Husqvarna was one of those companies that made everything. Think of mega corporations like Mitsubishi, they've got a hand in almost every industry somehow. Husqvarna no longer makes everything but decides to focus on their expertise, so the motorcycle division for instance has the Husqvarna name, but are actually made by Austrian KTM.
2014 was the last model year for Husaberg after KTM's main owner acquired Husqvarna in 2013. Husqvarna's old models were discontinued and Husaberg's models began to be sold under the Husqvarna name. Husaberg was then closed down as a motorcycle brand. [1] PS: From Wiki...🙃
@IWrocker: The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Koninklijke Olie) 60% merged in 1907 with Shell Transport and Trading Company 40% from the UK. As of 2005 its name is "Royal Dutch Shell plc". IN 2021 its name changed to Shell plc
Why do all Americans think everything comes from America?? In Eurooa almost everyone knows where the brands come from. typical America, they think they have invented everything and produce everything there is in the world😁😄. Most of the most important inventions and industrial brands come from Germany and other European countries.
Tesco had a presence in the Western US up to 2013 under the "Fresh & Easy" branding. Backlash against the brand came about when shoppers realised it was a front for the third largest retailer in the world that pretended to be a small neighbourhood convenience franchise. The franchise was bought in 2013 and became defunct in 2015
Louis Chevrolet (co-founder of Chevrolet Motor Company) was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. La Chaux-de-Fonds is the seat of watch companies such as Breitling, Ebel, Corum, Dubey & Schaldenbrand, Eberhard, Girard-Perregaux, Daniel JeanRichard, Omega, Parmigiani and Tissot. During the early 20th century, as much as half the world's watches were produced in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Stellantis is merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and French PSA Group (Peugeot, Citroen, DS and later Opel and Vauxhall). As of know Stellantis owns Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, and Vauxhall. As of 2023, Stellantis was the world's fourth-largest automaker by sales, behind Toyota, Volkswagen Group, and Hyundai Motor Group. Allianz is sponsor of many stadiums across the world. They're all named Allianz Stadium/Arena/Field. Allianz stadiums are located in Vienna, Munich, São Paulo, Nice, Turin, St. Paul, Minnesota,... T-Mobile is brand/subsidiarie of Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile was used all around the world (US, Poland, Czechia, Netherland, UK). T-Mobile name was previously used by subsidiaries in other countries aswell. Airbus is multinational between France and Netherlands Continental, Michelin, Pirelli and Dunlop (to extent) are from Europe. Toyo, Yokohama, Bridgestone, Falken, Nitto and Advan are all from Japan. Husqvarna are actually firearms and motorcylce company first, then agricultural equipement comapny second Fanta was originally German company under Coca-Cola Some other companies that are European: Lego, Adidas, Puma, Kappa, Lotto, Diadora, Lacoste, Lonsdale, Red Bull, Spotify are all European. CD Project Red (Witcher, Cyberpunk), DICE (Battlefield, Star Wars Battlefront), Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry) and Rockstar (GTA, RDR2) are/were all European gaming compaines
Nobody but an American could look at the words Stihl, Husqvarna, Nestle, Bosch, Zurich (!) and think they were American. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Exactly!😂
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A little tip: Companies cannot be assigned to countries based on where they have their headquarters. In Europe, many large companies have their headquarters in the Netherlands for tax reasons, but this does not mean that they are Dutch companies.
It literally works like that.
Well, we are talking more about "spiritual origin for independent companies"@@NLJeffEU
@@NLJeffEU No, it's just that--headquarters. Company is a little more than taxes (of course it shouldn't be that easy to move with that purpose): history, products, manufacturing, designing, whole philosophy (hard to talk about it in globalized economy, I know).
@@blinski1 no it literally means that a company is based on where it's headquater is... Royal Dutch Shell calls itself a british company.... Airbus calls itself a European company... DHL even though DHL was a dutch company before the German Postal Service took it over calls itself a German company...
It can be any way you want. For instance, Danish LM Windpower is the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbine blades, is currently French owned (GE Renewables) owned, has its headquarters in the Nederlands, but main production facilities in Denmark (and all over the world). And GE Renewables is owned by General Electric, an American company.
Everywhere you look, it's still called a Danish company. But they might as well call it Dutch, French or American.
Airbus was formed out of the entire European aerospace market, with a bunch of European small players joining forces as Airbus. They are out of every corner of Europe, incorporated in the Netherlands for tax reasons. Their main aeroplane manufacturing and R&D is in Toulouse, France.
It's interesting how multiple countries produce parts and ship/fly them to other European countries to make a whole airplane.
Used to live in Toulouse, it's really the French capital of aerospace, Airbus and the companies that work for them are the essential employers in the city, there are several labs and specialized engineering schools (at least two of them) in aerospace, the French equivalent of NASA has offices there etc. and really the city (now a little under 1 M inhabitants) has developed because of it. In Toulouse in 2022, approx. 17% of jobs in private companies were in companies related to aerospace.
I think they're even required to have production facilities in all of the founding countries, including the UK.
Yeah it's more pan-European than any individual country and with the aim of competing with Boeing as none of the individual countries could so they pooled resources together, ESA did the same to compete with NASA, but in space terms, they cooperate on a lot of projects together.
Not formed. Grew.up to be. It was originally just two companies. Well. There wad a few more when the name came around.
Technically the first airbus plane was the concorde. But that was before the brand airbus.
It's funny how Americans assume everything is American.
I'm guessing that Americans making assumptions everything is American is just being the part of the American bubble.
At least, Ian already knew that Volkswagen, Audi, BMW and Bosch are German and IKEA is Swedish..
Yeah the surprise that Rolex is not american.... When it comes to watches is pretty much safe to assuem that all brands are Swiss (yeah I know that Timex is from US)
Yeah. 😄
@@VeTiPL Your comment is a real kick in the nuts for our Japanese friends.
@@module79l28 But when Americans would be like: "Wait a minute... name like Bosch, Nestle, Husqvarna or Stihl doesn't sound American name"
Well, Nestle might sound it could be an American brand, but American brands don't use accents marking on their names.
Nokia is often thought to be Japanese or Korean but it’s from a small town called Nokia in Finland. 🇫🇮
Yup.
Actually, Nokia is from Espoo, Finland. Nokia was the (Romanian) name of its founder.
@@SiqueScarface Yes it’s in Espoo today but the roots go back to the small town called Nokia where the original Nokia AB (pulp mill) was founded in 1868.
Nokia got its start in the late 19th century as a Finnish paper mill and shoemaking company, if I remember clearly. :-)
How interesting! I didn't know that! You learn something new every day! I still have my Nokia, it's unbreakable, it will definitely out live me. 😂
Thinking Husqvarna is American is wild... But hey, when Americans invent words that "sound foreign" to sell their now fancier-sounding product like Haagen Dasz, all bets are off I guess.
Haagen was founded by a European born Polish man and he wanted to give it a Danish sounding name (probably more German-Polish sounding) as a tribute for Danes treatment off jews during WW2. But i get your point of it being a fairly poor international name.
To be fair, alot of immigrants came to the USA and made brands with their (non-English-sounding) name. But the same is true in Europe too.
Citroën? French, but his grand-parents were from the Netherlands.
Groupe Bull? French, but named after the Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull.
Schneider Electric? Founded by the Schneider brother, from the Moselle region (doesn't help there were German companies also named Schneider)
Thomson (now Technicolor)? French but named after Elihu Thomson (and started as a French brand of General Electric)
Hotchkiss? American engineer who settled in Paris and created his gun (and later, car) manufacture in France.
@@Mamarozan So they chose a spelling that's unmistakably NOT Danish.
The ä is not part of the Danish alphabet; and the sz combination is only used in loanwords or foreign names. Judging from the pronunciation, Häagen-Dasz could sound Hungarian, they do have â and the letter combination sz spronuced s - in Polish (which uses the sz quite a lot) it would sound like Dash.
Also worth remembering that a lot of the Montana and N/S Dakota area was settled by Scandinavians. Husqvarna isn't such a foreign-sounding name up there.
Husqvarna is old then the us 😂
6:20 yes, T-mobile was created as a brand by Deutsche Telekom.
We had the t-mobile brand as well in the early 2000s in Germany. The company Deutsche Telekom just chose to unify all their brands to Telekom apart from business brands like T-Systems. In the US they simply chose to keep the T-mobile name since that’s what their business was there.
See, in Germany, the Deutsche Telekom company originally was just a branch of the state owned Bundespost, the federal postal service. They managed all the landline stuff and Telekom still does these things today, they’re the main provider in Germany.
And since at 7:10 it mentions Deutsche Post owning DHL, Deutsche Post is actually the former Bundespost I just talked about. That’s our national postal service but also privatized now.
So the former federally owned Bundespost split into two privatized businesses, one for postal services and one for telecommunications. Or rather three businesses, since there was a finance branch being privatized as „Postbank“.
funny thing is... the German state still holds like 30% stock in each... so technically... when americans make a phonecall on T-Mobile or send a package with DHL they directly support german healthcare and free education
I always bring up T-Mobile and France's Orange when people act like the UK was the only country to stupidly privatise its telecoms in the 90s, though it sounds like the way the Germans did it was rather more sensible if the state at least kept a significant stake in it.
@@LoFiAxolotl It's fine as long as its not free healthcare and education for their own population coming out of their taxes.
T-Mobile is EE, it's british...
@@Bosspigeon230 only the british branch.
One that many Americans (or people from all over the world for that matter) don't know is that Spotify is Swedish.
Woah 🤯 🎉
Skype was Estonian and then Microsoft bought them. Gaming companies are another. Minecraft is Swedish.
@@verttikoo2052 wrong... skype was made by a danish guy .-) the estonians was just part of it.. but that main guy behind is danish
@@verttikoo2052 well it was invented by a swede and a dane but was programmed by an estonian team.
for some reason I thought it was German
The "invisible" company from Finland is KONE. They make elevators. There's a fair chance you used their products without knowing it.
As a UK guy, I dated a woman in Boston, MA who worked at the Boston office of Zurich Insurance. She worked for them and still thought they were an American company!
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Zurich Insurance... clearly American name... like British Petroleum or the German Postal Service
It was probably a US subsidiary, so she would have been technically right.
@@blechtic a subsidiary is not American just because it's registered there. As long as the founding company that owns it is not American, neither is the subsidiary. It is recognized as a legal American entity, but it's not an American company since its not a US citizen/government/company that owns it (or rather, that founded it and instills its values upon it).
@@Real_MisterSir If you're going by who owns it instead of which country can legislate its actions, then most larger companies are not American or from any single country.
1. Today’s Shell is a result of a merger in 1907. (Royal Dutch Petroleum + The Shell Transport & Trading Company, so a Dutch company and a British company)
2. Yes, everybody knows VW is German. However, they own several other brands, including Scania, Lamborghini, Škoda, Seat, and International Harvester, to name a few.
14. Yes, T-Mobile is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, which itself was created when it got de-merged with Deutsche Post in the early 90s.
21. Dalsey, Hillblom & Lynn started in San Francisco in the 60s. It was an American company until Deutsche Post bought the company over a four to five year period around the turn of the century.
29. I’d say Airbus is pan-European. Operational HQ is in Toulouse, France, but they have a fuselage factory in Germany, and a wing factory in Wales, among other facilities.
Oha, didn't know that VW owns Lamborghini too. I knew they owned Porsche though.
Also, Airbus is actually an equally merged company from France and Germany, the respective production HQ in each country produced different parts. Later some other european smaller companies joined in, mainly a UK company. They have their official HQ in Netherlands though, cause taxes. The joined companies were not swallowed up, but each contribute to the Airbus production on their own.
and airbus's Headquarters are in the Netherlands, where part of its electronics are made as well by the former Fokker
Shell is since shortly not dutch anymore due to them leaving the dutch headquarters
you say VW owns international harvester, but that's only partly true, since IH's farm equipment business is Case IH nowadays. However, VW owns navistar and therefore international bus and truck as well as their scout SUVs.
For those wondering: Lamborghini is part of Audi, which is part of Volkswagen.
Yeah She'll was due to a merger however now they closed their Dutch side of the business in the past couple of years now
Regarding to Bosch, every automobile produced in the world is having something made by Bosch,
- Company has a German name.
- 'murican: Wow, I didn't know they were German!
- Company is named after Switzerland's largest city.
- 'murican: Wow, are you really Swiss?
And then there are companies with German names that are American. Relax 🙄 Just try to have some empathy. _So many_ Americans have European names for obvious reasons.
Just a little fact for you, Lego is technically still the biggest tire manufacturer in the world.
And where invented in Sweden by a company named GEA, the bricks were named "Automatic Binding Bricks", A danish guy bought the whole concept and named it LEGO.
About 15 years ago, I worked for an American company (Diebold) in the Netherlands. We had an American director for some time. He mentioned that we had great navigation systems in Europe, but then said "of course we (the Americans) have TomTom". He was astonished when I informed him that TomTom is actually Dutch.
Why do Americans so often assume that anything that is good must automatically be American?
Lack of education and a very disturbed self image...
Husqvarna has an amazing museum in Huskvarna, Sweden. They have done so many things that each section could almost be a museum of its own.
Great place, had been there in 2001.
Its strange that the american company, founded 100 year before america have a town in sweden.
@@matsv201 funny but its the other way around the factory was called after the village.
@@pippen1001 Nah.. the american company, founded in the 1600eds, created a village in Sweden
@@matsv201 Flat earth society?
Even though Kit Kats are now owned by Nestle they are originally from the UK from Rowtrees of York Nestle took them over in 1988
Rowntrees chocolate was way,way better than Nestle..
I knew a guy who swore down that Kit Kat was American just because it was made by Hersheys. I gave up trying to explain what made under licence meant and told him if he didn't stop arguing about it I'd shove a Kit Kat so far up his arse and make him tell me how many fingers it had!
Fun fact: the world famous ukulele isn't an Hawaiian instrument. It's originally from Portugal. Bet you didn't know that one. 😁
did not know that thanks learn something new every day
yap it was originally called the machete de braga. in 1879 when Portuguese came to Hawaii they brought that instrument with them. Ukelele is just the Hawaiian name of tha instrument. but its indeed identical. but its not strange that this happened. most stuff in the US comes from europe anyway. most "Typical" American stuff are all from Europe. Bowling for example comes from the Netherlands. We used to play 9 pin over here (kegelen in Dutch). we brought that over to New York and over time it evolved into 10 pin bowling.
didnt know it either and I am not american. interesting
@@metalvideos1961 See, we're always learning in this channel. Never crossed my mind for bowling to be a Dutch game. The least you expect, you're learning something new. Amazing.
@@paulocarvalho6480 haha i know right. do you know as well that we Technically created Christmas? also i dont know if you know about the sport Curling? there is some speculation that we invented that as well.
Both Unilever and Shell are British/Dutch. Both headquarters moved out of the Netherlands recently.
Stellantis is French/Italian but their hq moved to the Netherlands recently.
Funny people read over the Dutch in the name Royal Dutch Shell
If you look in street view at the address of the Stellantis Coporate Office you will see a small office building, which is shared by a number of companies. Stellantis is what we call a "letter box" company. it just has a postal address in The Netherlands so that it can claim to operate from the Netherlands and receive certain tax benefits from the Dutch government. This is one of the reasons that the Netherlands is called a Tax Haven by other countries, as just registering your company over here, which a small presence, already gives you these massive tax benefits without actually having to move large numbers of personnel over to the Netherlands.
@@raisan5989 Legally it is now just "Shell". The Royal Dutch part was dropped in January 2022.
fun fact, Ford got the offer to get the Volkswagen werke for free after ww2, if they would keep the factory running.
but Henry said " that deal is not worth a dime"
well good, they probably would have ruined the company
Ford had their own massive plant in Germany. Henry Ford got awards from the German government in the 1930’s for expanding it and his other contributions to the Nazi party.
Glad that worked out in the end haha.
Although I'd like a VW Mustang now.
@@q1337 the name is a feaverdream haha
Surprised at that given Henry Ford was an anti Semite Nazi supporter.
It’s quite common for people in the States to just assume that so many big corporations are from the US. I’m from the USA but I’ve been living overseas since the 90s. I don’t call myself “American” anymore because I’ve heard a lot of people overseas saying WTF? American can be applied to anyone from North or South America. So it’s kind of rude for us to claim the title American when Canadians, Mexicans, Argentinians, Brazilians etc are also Americans
That makes no sense.
I am Greek and I am European, the Spanish are also European, as well as all the other European countries.
Europe is the continent, America is two continents.
So it makes sense to call yourself American
Oh you american? From which country?
If it's not Airbus, I rather take the bus. 😀
Thank you 🙏 I will use that 👍
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So I do with Boeing...
@@altblechasyl_cs2093 If it's Boeing i'm not going.
@@itsmebatman Your fault...
Ten brands from five European countries belong to the Group: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, ŠKODA, SEAT, CUPRA, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Porsche and Ducati. In addition, the Volkswagen Group offers a wide range of other brands and business divisions.
Dont forget MAN and Scania.
Volkswagen is owned by Porsche btw.... but also owns Porsche.... look it up
@@LoFiAxolotl No Wrong unfortunately the other way around, look it up
Porsche Holding: Let us introduce ourselves!
Porsche Holding, based in Salzburg, is the largest and most successful automobile trading company in Europe. As a 100% subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, our focus is on the Group brands Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Porsche as well as Bentley, Lamborghini and Ducati.
@@LoFiAxolotlThats not right Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedekind want to by VW but he makes mistakes at the Stock Market ,thats cost a Lot of money and the VW CEO Ferdinand Pirch( His Family ist one of the biggest Share holders of Porsche.) . Instead VW bought Porsche
@@notdirsale7426 Google Porsche AG... and then Porsche Automobil Holding... Porsche AG is owned by Volkswagen... Porsche Automobil Holding owns like 52% of Volkswagen... Porsche Owns Volkswagen which is owned by Porsche... Porsche AG is the company making the cars... Porsche Automobil Holdings is a holding company owned by the Porsche Family... it's literally the biggest meme in the history of modern economics
Rolex began in London, UK and was founded by a German immigrant, but the company moved to neutral Switzerland after the outbreak of WW1 and anti-German feelings in the UK.
Indeed and one of the founder founded Tudor as well.
@@MichelRoelfsema I have a nice Rolex but my Tudor, a very nice watch was stolen unfortunately1
@@TerenceDixon-l6b Alway sade
It's easy with shell. In the Netherlands they needed to pay taxes and in the uk they actually got 255mil from the taxpayer since they left the Netherlands.
it was because it's a inport product now and they can ask more tax from the Dutch people .. 😂
The 'Royal Dutch' part should be revoked, now they've moved out of the country.
@@giselavaleazar8768it is. They lost it in January 2022
It had to do with shareholder taxes that was difficult to orgenize for Shell and Unilever thats why they chose to move to GB because they had simpler rules. The developmemt company of Shell is still based in the Netherlands because they have a lower tax rate in the Netherlands.
@@caelorum Good.
Husqvarna is actually located (and named after) the small town my mom grew up in, called Huskvarna. I own a couple of their old shotguns and of course lawnmowers, motorcycle, a boat engine and a chainsaw plus various tools and things. The factory is still there, pumping out high quality stuff. The museum there is also quite spectacular with some amazing guides.
I`m the third generation owning a Husqvarna sewing machine. My grand mother had an old non electric machine I learn how to sew on my mothers electric machine and now I have an computerized sewing machine/embroidery machine from Husqvarna. The best machines with the longest durability
Now,that was a lightning fast scroll over Gazprom 😄
Americans still LOVE russians. Thats genetic
Are you ready for more? The legendary US brands are now European: check Browning and Colt - HQ are in Belgium and Czech republic. Browning is owned by FN Herstal , Colt By CZ.
Royal Dutch Shell is dutch but moved its headquarters for tax purposes. same reason why Ikea is a swedish company but has it's headquarter in the Netherlands.
No, Shell is British. Up until 2022 it was dual listed as both Dutch and British companies with separate shares, but they recently merged and became one British company : Shell PLC.
It's more Anglo-Dutch being formed from the merger of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport & Trading.
It is also not Royal Dutch anymore. They lost that title in January 2022
@@joethomas5216 its hq british yes but that doesnt change the 300 years of history.... oh nvm your british, your trying to britwash
@@Jan54321They’re something else, aren’t they? Dripping with it.
Swede here. Thank you for pronouncing IKEA the right way ❤
I am impressed by how you said Husqvarna.
IKEA is an akronym for Ingvar Kamprad Erik Axel.
@@Cloudberry84 No it's not. IKEA is Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd (the last two are his home farm, and village).
AEKI 🎉
@@Cloudberry84 yea, but it terrible that they gone woke too
I’m from S Wales and in 1999 my employer British Telecom moved to Amsterdam to work for their Dutch subsidiary. I lived in the centre of Amsterdam on the Brouwer’s Gracht canal, there are large network of canals here so DHL delivered parcels here by canal boat. The roads there are very narrow but the canals are wider, they had DHL livered boats and crew who would hop off a parcel to a property, business or residential, hop back onto their boat and on to the next drop off point.
We had a new large Bosch factory here near Llantrisant just off the M4 motorway. In Wales, especially the south, we call a sink “the Bosch”. One of local cartoonists drew a picture of the site and was showing his wife “Look. I told you this was where our sinks are made.”
We used to get a French lemonade called Pschitt, supposed to represent the noise you got when you opened the bottle.
Irn Bru, supposedly made from iron girders, is a bigger seller in Scotland then Coca Cola.
Irn Bru = Iron Brew. That vile orange colour, seems to be produced by a chemical plant rather than a soft drink manufacturer.
The former Dutch Queen Wilhelmina had more than 25% shares in the former Royal Dutch Shell and earned billions of dollars. Under pressure from the Dutch government, the Dutch royal family had to relinquish their shares. According to insiders, the royal family chopped the shares into small pieces and regained possession through unknown detours. Queen Beatrix was good friends with the oil sultanates of Oman, Brunei, and Bahrain, where Shell has many refineries.
Fun fact: the "Uni"-part of Unilever actually originated in the town I live, Oss. First two competing margerine factories from Oss merged into Margarine Unie and then took over a third company also from Oss. And just a few years later they merged with Lever Brothers and became Unilever. Not that we have that much to show for it almost a century later, we only have a Unox factory, and still some of th old buildings remain.
Airbus is the first real European company . In this company France, Spain and Germany stick their Air-defense company together . It starts at European Aeronautic Defence and Space EADS. T-mobile is a part of Telekom. It is the privatized part of the Deutsche Post (German postal Service).
Also 20% British too (BAE)
@@adrianday Correct! Since Brexit I sometimes forget the British... Sorry..
8:58 Airbus is a European consortium whose ownership is divided between the French, German, Spanish goverments, wich is a 26% of the ownership, and the rest of the shareholders, wich includes the employees of the company.
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The "tax headquarters" of Airbus is in the Netherlands because of the low cost of corporate taxes there, however, the "Civilian arm" is headquartered in Tulouse, France and the "Military and Space arm" has it's headquarters in Getafe, Spain.
Americans never cease to amaze me how insular they are
Mind boggling insular. And naïve.
My father was an engineer who worked for Husqvarna for almost 40 years, heading the chainsaw prototype workshop for much of that time, turning blueprints into prototypes. He took me to the plant a few times, where chainsaws, sewing machines, lawn mowers and exclusive hunting rifles and shotguns were made. My brother worked there for a few years, too.
Someone who was also involved in the oil business was Wilhelm Anton Riedemann. The inventor of the tanker and co-founder of ESSO (Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft (DAPG) is a German petroleum company founded in 1890, which has been called Esso since 1950 and Esso Deutschland GmbH since 1999 and is a subsidiary of the US ExxonMobil Group.) came from my home town in Germany. He was so rich that he had a huge palace built. In comparison, a villa looked like a servant's quarters.
- More or less all the luxury watch brands are from Switzerland, majority from Geneve.
- Husqvarna has always mostly been known for their bad ass dirt bikes, here in europe.
- You should defenitely try Cockta, which you skipped when looking at different countries. It's the most unique tasting cola-ish drink you will ever try. It contains different herbs, which makes sense, being from Slovenia, the land of herbs and bees.
Husqvarna even made guns at one point. And it is still high quality garden equipments.
The more videos I see from you, the more I worry about what Americans actually know!... not just pretending to know, but really knowing.
And shockingly, that doesn't just affect the knowledge of the origin of companies - I'm speechless... more or less.
A fun bit of information about Volkswagen.... Porsche owns Volkswagen which owns Porsche... in the early 2000s Porsche was broke so they started selling stocks of the Porsche AG... which Volkswagen happily bought.... which made the Porsche SE the parent company of Porsche AG so much money that they started buying Volkswagen.... and to this day... Porsche AG is a subsidiary of Volkswagen while Volkswagen is owned by Porsche SE
😂😂I think my brain hurts... But I ain't certain it is my brain... Or if it is mine... I think I'm confused 😕🤔😂
We now basically have the same in Denmark just with one of our big supermarket chains and a gas station. Okay so here we go COOP Danmark (Operating company of COOP amba in Denmark) owns 600 something gas stations that are operated by OK (Operating company of OK amba) and COOP amba owns approx. 20% of OK amba that way. Now it is getting even more complicated as not that long ago, OK amba brought approx. 50% of COOP Danmark (The operating company of COOP amba)... Oh and "amba" means it is a cooperative owned by members which is customers so COOP owns a majority of OKs gas stations, COOP also owns 20% of OK, who owns 50% of COOP and both companies are then owned by more than 2 million Danes. Now that is what I call complicated
Some Spanish companies:
Repsol (stress on the 'o') is a petrol company. If you watched Dr. House series, he rode a Honda CBR with the Repsol decorations on it.
Movistar is a telecom company, very present all around LatinAmerica under that same brand and a few others. I worked there for 33 years.
Zara is part of the Inditex group which owns quite a big number of clothing brands.
The way Americans say Husqvarna always cracks me up haha. In the Swedish pronunciation, "Hus" is pronounced sort of like hoose (think loose). Literally means house. Another thing that fucks it up for English speakers is that Swedish is a pitch language, and in qvarna the stress is on both a's, but it rises on the first and falls on the second. Hoose-kvaar-nah. (Say it in the front of your mouth and you'll be there).
The name is a combination of "hus" (in this case meaning a fort or fortress) and "kvarn" (mill, in this case a watermill). The nearby waterfall was used to power the first mills in the area, and the fort (Rumlaborg) was built in the 1360s as a defense against Danish invaders.
AFAIK the u is more or less Japanese style and non-existent in English language. Between German u and ü or French ou and u. IMHO any instructions in "English" don't make sense: marry merry Mary, if you will.
[ˈhʉ̂ːsˌkvɑːɳa]
Having said that i suggest a grain of salt being not a native in any of those languages.
To make matters even worse, the rising and falling of pitch differentiate between dialects. The way you describe does not represent how we say it where I come from (start neutral on Hus, go down a little on kvarn, and rise to a higher pitch on the last a), but that's ok. Dialects are fun and I'm happy we have them!
@@bjornh4664 "Quern" in English also means "mill stone", "hand-mill", so there's a definite connection with the word "mill" there. :-)
But hoos gets it wrong, you need to have the clean sound of the u in hus.
We have saying - "It works properly like Swiss watches"
and we had Husquarna washing machine for a long time
Opel (rebranded to Vauxhall in Britain) is also a part of Stellantis, they were a part of GM since 1929 and then were sold off to PSA in 2017.
They did a lot of rebranding, the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia was also the 5th and 6th generation of the Buick Regal or the Chevrolet Captiva (made in South Korea, former Daewoo) compact SUV was rebranded as the Opel Antara in Europe, however in Germany the Captiva was also offered and sold better than the Opel.
DHL was originally American, founded in 1969 based in San Francisco, but the Deutsche Post (former Bundespost - federal postal service) bought them in 2002 and "germanized" them, moved the DHL headquarters to their existing HQ in Bonn (former German capital, parliament and many ministries moved to Berlin in the 1990s but there are still some in Bonn), also harmonized their coporate design - the "DHL" logo got a brighter red and post-yellow background.
E.ON originated from the merger of multiple companies mainly VEBA (United Electricity and Mining Co.) and VIAG (United Industrial Companies) in 2000, also the VIAG had the subsidiary VIAG Interkom which got rebranded to O2 in 2002.
The mobile network service providers (except the Telekom/T-Mobile) also have weird origin stories, they mostly originated from industrial companies that were kinda conglomerates (with branches in multiple different sectors), German Vodafone originally was Mannesmann and the Mannesmann brothers invented a method to make seamless steel pipes/tubes in the 1880s, they then launched the second GSM network (after Telekom) called "D2" in the mid-90s and then got bought by British Vodafone in 2000 and that is to this day the largest acquisition ever with a value of 190 billion Euros (not sure if adjusted for inflation, Dollar Value would also be around 150-200 billion, Activision Blizzard was "only" at around 70 billion USD).
And as said, O2 former VIAG Interkom was also founded by a company with some industrial background (bought by Spanish Telefonica in 2006) and E-Plus (they merged their Network with O2 in 2014) was also founded by industrial and energy companies.
You know why Audi has the four rings? It was the brand logo of "Auto Union" an amalgamation of four brands in 1932 and the first German automotive conglomerate, the rings symbolize Horch, Audi (the founder is August Horch, he got kicked out of Horch and then took the latin term "audi!" which means "listen!" for his new company), DKW (steam-powered car, they also built motorcycles) and Wanderer (they also built bicycles (you can still buy Wanderer-branded bicycles) and typewriters).
It was still called Auto Union after WWII, moved to west germany but then faded in the 1960s and the whole company was fully renamed to Audi in 1985 (however there's still a Auto Union subsidiary that's the heritage department of Audi).
AFAIK they began to use the "Horch" name for a even more luxury version of the A8 for China a few years ago, similar to the Maybach S-Class (or the highest trim level at Skoda is "Laurin & Klement", one of the Skoda Auto origins), but I don't understand why they only do that in China where Horch is probably completely unkown.
Glencore IS a Swiss company, founded by Marcel David Reich, borned in the Netherlands and died in Switzerland. He also had the Belgian, US, Israeli and Spanish citizenship.
When i lived in south west Germany i was amazed how many simple job offers i got from companies like Stihl, Bosch and car test driving companies and so on... What seems like dream jobs in other countries, are lower jobs there.
And yes, Shell was dutch.. just like the huge Unilever before they went to the UK with their hq.
Allianz you might know from sponsorships on cars. (And its pronounced like "alleyahntz")
Shell trading company was British as was Lever brothers. They both merged with Dutch companies.
Red Bull is actually a Thai Company, biggest shareholder and founder is a Thai family
HQs are in Austria. Production is in Austria. Plus their international success never would have happened without the Austrian Didi Mateschitz. And they know it.
tesco in usa was under name "fresh&easy" at peak 200 stores in west coast, it has been sold to local investment group but operational ties remain
Funny fact. KIT KAT was originally British as it was made by Rowntree Macintosh. They were taken over by Nestle in the mid 1990s. Tesco had a store concept in the USA called Fresh and Easy, it sold it. HSBC, are a bank, it stands for Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Was originally a Hong Kong based company but in 1997 they moved their head office to the UK.
The inventor Emil Lerp, founder of the Hamburg company Dolmar, brought the first mass-produced gasoline-powered chainsaw onto the market in 1927 (Type A). The saw had to be operated by two people and could only make vertical cuts. Stihl built the first chainsaw with an electric motor for use in cutting areas (where logs are cut into pieces) in 1926. One-man chainsaw (EMS) at the end of the 1950s. First Models of this type built were the Dolmar CF from Germany in 1957, the Rex from SOLO in 1958 and the Contra from Stihl from Germany in 1959. The one-man chainsaw significantly increased productivity when harvesting wood.
Hey, related to the soft drinks at the end of the video, it might be fun to check the Orangina commercials. They are... well known for being quite unique.
If you wanna try Paulaner Spezi, the Softdrink, look out for Paulaner Sunset. That's what its called in the US, sold in 0.33l bottles (whatever that's in oz😅)
The biggest company of the Netherlands at the moment, is called ASML. It used to be a daughter company of Dutch tech giant Philips, until they went solo. They now a have monopoly on the technology that produces microchips. Their biggest costumers are companies like Samsung and TSMC. Without this company, the current generation of microchips would not exist.
Also dutch Philips and ASML
ASML while maybe one of the most important companies in the world in our day and age... it's not a "famous" company... and Philips kinda dead... they probably still trying to sell VHS tapes (they literally lost like 50% of their value a year ago after a big recall)
Philips went full on out of the consumer market and into the health market, but had one department screw up big time resulting in major losses. It is still a pretty large player though.
ASML is one you never hear of, except in the context of an economic war with China. The same goes for NXP Semiconductors. Those two alone could stop the entire tech industry if they wanted to.
@@caelorumNXP was earlier Philips Semiconductor.
ASML would be nothing without Jenoptik / Zeiss ☝️
@@Foersom_ And they also bought Freescale some time ago, which itself was spun out of Motorola. And besides NXP, ST Microelectronics (one of the largest microcontroller manufacturers after NXP) is also European.
"Shell" is founded in "The Netherlands.
So this means from orgin that Shell is a Dutch company.
17:12 Kofola is awesome! We have it everywhere here in Slovakia too. It's a softer, more soda water-like cola.
I really like your comments...always with kindness, intelligence and curiosity. It's not always like that with Americans. Well done and keep going!
Royal Dutch Shell WAS a company out of the Netherlands. But since they moved to the headquarters to the UK they are now only Shell.
Airbus is a European company - main parts are in Hamburg (Germany/production/assembly), Toulouse (France/headquarters), Filton/Broughton (UK/ wings), Puerto Real/Illiescas/Getafe (Spain/ tail (rudder/fin)) There are more production places for Airbus all over Europe for example Germany has 6 more production places beside Hamburg.
You might be interested to know that the number one tyre manufacturer in the world is actually LEGO. The number of LEGO tyres made outstrips all other tyre manufacturers around the globe.
That is one of those thing they say but is not really true.
There is a few issues wirh the statlemr..
Firstly production numbers is never what counts as making a company large, ira market cap.
Secondly they are not really defined as tires.
Matchbox is the largest car manufacturer in the world, but refuse to put lego tyres on their vehicles. Shows how unreliable those tyres must be.
@@kevin_mitchell A lot of matchbox cars are driven by children. Parents are not going to take any chances on such a safety critical part of the vehicle for their kids.
Thank you QI!
LEGO, the most annoying toy to step on, is 100% Danish and the world's largest toy manufacturer.
All LEGOs are to this day still produced in Billund, which is 54km from where I live.
No they have also big manufactoring locations in China and mexico
@@lordminion8070 No they don't.
@@akyhnesince 2016 in Jiaxing, but also in Hungary, Mexico and Czech.
You can see it too, the color quality has been terrible for many years.
Lego has 7 manufacturing plants on 3 different continents, it's been a while since everything was produced here in Denmark. In fact the largest factory they have currently is one in Mexico.
That is definitely not true. They have production facilities in several countries, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico and China.
Regarding the soda drinks at the end of the video, the Spanish brand KAS, founded in 1956, was acquired by PepsiCo in 1991/1992. Pepsi commercialised Kas products in Spanish market while using the Mirinda brand worldwide.
Europeans also pillaged and stole the American continent from the natives and declared it America, later on USA. So the entire USA is European made. I bet they don`t teach that in school. In Europe we learnt that in middle grade class. Great video as always.
So true USA is made in Europe or and so is Canada Australia made in England 🤣😂.
That's why they still speak English there (plus french in parts of Canada).
Don't forget that the Irish prisoners got shipped to Australia.
Even for the American school system it's a pretty bold assumption that they wouldn't teach the literal creation of the country and in Europe the schooling most likely wildly varies depending on whether it's a country that had something to do with it or not.
My guy, its impressive to see how much knowledge you absorber and retained over the years on this channel. Your pronunciation, knowledge of history, all on point. You know more about Europe than most europeans 💪
Tesco left the US in 2013.
And IKEAs logo used to be white on red.
The crowns on Husqvarnas logo is a gun sight if you look at it. And their motorcycle division is now owned by KTM.
Spezi is a 50/50 mix of coke and fanta (the European kind). So a lot of people in Germany buy large bottles of both coke and fanta and then drink either just the way it is or make Spezi.
T-Mobile US is indeed a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. They're using the T-Mobile brand is over a dozen countries.
And DHL is not just German, they're owned by the German postal service.
Airbus is legally headquartered in the Netherlands, but their operational headquarter is in France.
I'm surprised they didn't pick Capri Sun for a German soft drink. I thought it would be way more popular internationally than Spezi. Maybe they were only going for carbonated soft drinks, but even then it's an unusual choice
didnt know bout DaimlerChrysler was invovled^^
it seems more like a list of exclusive drinks from those countries.... something like orangina with the pulp still in you really don't find anywhere... same with Spezi or kokola... they're really unique to their countries... while Capri Sun is just sugar that once saw a fruit with a few drops of water in there
Airbus is originally a company based on Fokker VFW and some France companies. At the time i was working for Fokker we did work on the Airbus project. Its a Dutch, German and France company. But know there are a lot of other European countries involved
Ppl dont recognize it as german. I realized here today. Probably because of the english name. German corporations are good in hiding their origin behind an english appearance. So ppl have no clue what percentage of "their" economy is german in fact.
@@gino_58_nl24 MBB (Germany) was also a founding member.
IKEA is pronounced EE-KAY-AH over here. Their headquarters are not in Sweden, but in the Netherlands. It works the other way around too; Shell and Unilever are Dutch, but they went to the UK. These corporations go anywhere to lower their tax obligation.
11:23 I saw a reaction video on an American young dude, watching a rally video for the first time.
When he saw a WRC1 Ford with a big Red bull ad all over it, he instantly concluded that must have been an American driver.
I had to comment, that small Fords are not designed and manufactured in the US, and that Red Bull is Austrian. He never replied...
And the Austrian guy got the recipe from Thailand.
@@marflittsRedbull has always been Thai majority-owned (51%).
Sumol (in Portugal) is more advertised (and probsbly drank) in Orange flavour. But for me, it's Sumol Ananás (Pineapple), cold (of course!) in a summer afternoon.
Sumol ananas is something i’ve been craving for almost a year now
That might be beside the point but sometimes I consider the blue of your eyes being CGI intensified. 😁😁😁
13:39 pro tools for forest and gardening are either huqui or stihl...
16:19 spezi and sumol both enjoyable
Despite nestle being swiss, a few of their chocolate brands are actually from the UK, like Kit Kat, Aero, Caramac, Rolo, Quality Street amongst many others are from where Nestle acquired companies such as "Mackintosh's" and "Rowntree's" which were both uk company, meaning despite the main company being "Swiss" it doesn't take away that these were created in the UK (also Nesquik for example is from the US)
and all of their chocolate is made with 100% tears of child slave workers
The Nesquik one is a tricky one. Yes it was created for the US market, but it was created by Nestle (under the name Nestle Quik) and then introduced into other countries. So yeah kinda American but also kinda Swiss.
Nestle and Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) both have an insane amount of brands they own nowadays. It's kind of horrific how big they are. They pretty much own all European choc brands together. Some outliers still exist, like Fazer from Finland, but it's becoming really rare.
@@esaedvik What about Barry Callebaut
, Baronie (owners of Jaques) and Lotte (owners of Guylian), Lotus bakeries?
@@esaedvik Mondolez sold their chocolate flavoured milk brands Kaba (German), Suchard-Express (Swiss), and Benco (French) and the chocolate brands Chocolat Suchard (Swiss) without their main brand Milka, and Terry's (British) to investment company Eurazeo that formed the French confectioner Carambar. Carambar sold Kaba, Suchard-Express and Benco to the German company Krüger, owner of brands like Trumpf, Mauxion, Fritt, Schogetten, Sodapop and Aero chocolate. So, at least in Europe we have beside Nestle and Mondolez other big chocolate and chocolate drink companies like Carambar, Unilever, Krüger, Barry Callebaut, Baronie and Lindt & Sprüngli.
Fun fact: When I grew up, IKEA used to be red and white. They changed the colours when they started expanding internationally.
Airbus is an European consortium. I don't know of any other prominent joint ventures on that scale in EU.
EU is not a place
@@wiganfan3373It’s “not a place”? F&ck me 😂
@@Dreyno I'm at a loss too. When did a geographical limit stopped being a location ? I don't think you need to pinpoint the exact space time coordinates of a place for any location to be "a place".
@@Dreyno Europe is a place, The EU is a trading group turned into a dictatorship, It is not a country or state as yet, having a wank flag does not a country maketh, come back when the EU has one police force, one health service, one army, one language, one government etc etc etc
It's a German-French-Spanish company...not European
Shell headquarters moved recently from the Netherlands to the UK. Purely for financial reasons (taxes). It was (is) a Dutch company. You only have to look in Rotterdam large refining plants from Shell are located there. But moving to the UK git them lower taxes to pay.
HSBC stands for Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters in Hong Kong but they have branches everywhere like the UK
That's what HSBC stands for but its HQ is in London.
17:00 The spezi in that picture is basically just a mix between cola and fanta so you could mix it yourself. It was so popular in german speaking countries that the coca-cola company actually made a new drink (originally) only for the west german market in the 70's called mezzo mix.
It blew your mind that these brands weren't American, it blew my mind that you thought they were American. Especially Rolex. You can pretty much guarantee that high end watches are swiss, that's just common knowledge.
Actually Red Bull is originally from Thailand although the Thai versions of Red Bull would not be legal to sell in many countries. Red Bull comes in tiny 4.9 fl oz bottles in Thailand, and has 2 strengths. Regular is the equivalent of 24 cups of coffee, while the super version is the equivalent of 32 cups of coffee. Even in Thailand, where there is no health and safety, doctors say do not drink more than 2 Red Bulls in a 24 hour period. It makes an American or European energy drink look like distilled water.
There is one country in the world, where Coke and Pepsi are sold, where neither is the best-selling soft drink.
Scotland - with irn-bru.
Securitas, ABB, IKEA, H&M, AstraZeneca, Volvo Group, Assa Abloy, Loomis, Hexagon, Skanska, Ericsson, Autoliv, Atlas Copco, Investor, The Absolut Company AB and SKF some other Swedish companies.
The way you pronounce Peugeot is the funniest thing. Never heard it said like that.
You were asking about Shell - They used to be Royal Dutch Shell but moved from the Netherlands to Uk in 2022 and changed their name to just Shell. The Dutch courts had ruled that they needed to almost halve their greenhouse gas emissions. Shell are currently trying to sue Greepeace so that they can continue to cause more damage in the climate crisis and make vast profits at the expense of the environment. As with all fossil fuel companies they spend vast amounts of money trying to spread doubt about the damage they do - just like the Tobacco companies did. Nestle are not much better as they peddle junk food and UPF that has caused such catastrophic effects on people's health. All in all most of these huge conglomerates are not very nice.
BP used to stand for British Petroleum but as they are more international now they changed their name to just BP.
Antes de ser BP era Mobil.
And there was that little mishap in the Gulf of Mexico. The change was more of a PR ploy.
BP stands today for Beyond Petroleum....
@@petersteinmeijer519 Didn't stop the British hating American president Barak Obama from constantly referring to BP as British Petroleum every time he tried to pass the blame for that oil disaster on them despite the oil rig being built in Norway and the majoriy of rig workers being American.
@@ruidaniel2300
It was never Mobil.
Glencor is well known in mining in Australia with 22 mines. Alliance is one of the main re insurance companies in Australia. You might buy an insurance policy from a major grocery company for example, but the policy is actually with Alliance.
The actual headquarters of many of these companies is due to reduced taxation. Airbus for example mainly builds planes in France, but its headquarters is in Netherlands. eBay
Shell has been a Dutch-British cooperation from the beginning, but it used to be a Dutch company until it moved it's headquarter to the UK for tax and legal reasons very recently. Their main operation is still from the Netherlands I guess, because of Rotterdam.
Airbus is mostly legally registered in the Netherlands for tax or French-German neutrality or something. Netherlands is an attractive country for Intellectual Property law especially in relation to tax too apparently. There is a research division there too but Airbus manufacturing is not happening there.
@@MrDjTilo Shell has a lot to be ashamed of but I still prefer it to be subjected to Dutch law over UK law.
@@MrDjTilo which one do you mean? One of the two big oil spillers or the company producing weapons? could really be either
Husqvarna is the main sponsor of my favorite hockey team HV71 (Husqvarna Vätterstad 71) and the reason for that name is because Husqvarna is also a region of the city Jönköping wich lies just underneath the lake Vättern and therefor vätterstad. City in swedish is stad, dunno why I wanted to say that but when I nerd out I have to lol. Also I used to pack tools for the chainsaws from Husqvarna.
For a reverse-mind-blow (sounds wrong...): Ford, an obviously american company, has been producing in Cologne in Germany since before WW2. After the war broke out, Ford, the awesome capitalists that they are, just kept producing (war is apparently good for business) and - increasingly over the next 6 years - military stuff in particular, like halftracks and engines. So essentially Ford, as a company, literally got money from both sides of the war.
Most Swiss people aren’t proud of Nestlé. That company violated so many human rights, it’s disgusting.
Reebok was initially a UK company
yes, and was once Adidas biggest rival, when Reeboks high days wer over Adidas bought Reebok and kept the brand small 😄
@@frontwing67 same thing happened to the Triump marque which is owned by BMW. They kept it off the market because they didn’t want it to compete with the Z3
Shell used to be Dutch but some years ago Brits bought a majority of the shares and headquarters was moved some time later from the Netherlands to the UK.
Shell did not move to England because brits bought an majority but simply for taxreasons. A majority of the shares are still Dutch. The same happend to Unilever. BTW, Since Shell moved their headquarters to London it is NO LONGER Royal Dutch. They lost the "royal" title.
Bosch is quite interesting as it. Is owned by the Robert Bosch Foundation. The profits are used to conduct and finance social, cultural and scientific projects, in accordance with the wishes of Robert Bosch
Stella Artois, Jupiler, Kwak, Tripel Karmeliet, Goose Island, Brahma, Skol, Ginette, Cubanisto, Corona, Belle-vue, Victoria, Hoegaarden, Leffe, Budweiser
AB ImBev
Belgium
Husqvarna was one of those companies that made everything. Think of mega corporations like Mitsubishi, they've got a hand in almost every industry somehow. Husqvarna no longer makes everything but decides to focus on their expertise, so the motorcycle division for instance has the Husqvarna name, but are actually made by Austrian KTM.
2014 was the last model year for Husaberg after KTM's main owner acquired Husqvarna in 2013. Husqvarna's old models were discontinued and Husaberg's models began to be sold under the Husqvarna name. Husaberg was then closed down as a motorcycle brand. [1] PS: From Wiki...🙃
@IWrocker: The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Koninklijke Olie) 60% merged in 1907 with Shell Transport and Trading Company 40% from the UK. As of 2005 its name is "Royal Dutch Shell plc". IN 2021 its name changed to Shell plc
Why do all Americans think everything comes from America?? In Eurooa almost everyone knows where the brands come from. typical America, they think they have invented everything and produce everything there is in the world😁😄. Most of the most important inventions and industrial brands come from Germany and other European countries.
To be fair, as a European I did not know what flag all listed companies belonged to. I knew most, but yeah, not all.
Tesco had a presence in the Western US up to 2013 under the "Fresh & Easy" branding. Backlash against the brand came about when shoppers realised it was a front for the third largest retailer in the world that pretended to be a small neighbourhood convenience franchise. The franchise was bought in 2013 and became defunct in 2015
Louis Chevrolet (co-founder of Chevrolet Motor Company) was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. La Chaux-de-Fonds is the seat of watch companies such as Breitling, Ebel, Corum, Dubey & Schaldenbrand, Eberhard, Girard-Perregaux, Daniel JeanRichard, Omega, Parmigiani and Tissot. During the early 20th century, as much as half the world's watches were produced in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Stellantis is merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and French PSA Group (Peugeot, Citroen, DS and later Opel and Vauxhall). As of know Stellantis owns Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, and Vauxhall.
As of 2023, Stellantis was the world's fourth-largest automaker by sales, behind Toyota, Volkswagen Group, and Hyundai Motor Group.
Allianz is sponsor of many stadiums across the world. They're all named Allianz Stadium/Arena/Field. Allianz stadiums are located in Vienna, Munich, São Paulo, Nice, Turin, St. Paul, Minnesota,...
T-Mobile is brand/subsidiarie of Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile was used all around the world (US, Poland, Czechia, Netherland, UK). T-Mobile name was previously used by subsidiaries in other countries aswell.
Airbus is multinational between France and Netherlands
Continental, Michelin, Pirelli and Dunlop (to extent) are from Europe. Toyo, Yokohama, Bridgestone, Falken, Nitto and Advan are all from Japan.
Husqvarna are actually firearms and motorcylce company first, then agricultural equipement comapny second
Fanta was originally German company under Coca-Cola
Some other companies that are European:
Lego, Adidas, Puma, Kappa, Lotto, Diadora, Lacoste, Lonsdale, Red Bull, Spotify are all European.
CD Project Red (Witcher, Cyberpunk), DICE (Battlefield, Star Wars Battlefront), Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry) and Rockstar (GTA, RDR2) are/were all European gaming compaines