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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)
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@@VeTiPL Your comment is a real kick in the nuts for our Japanese friends.
â@@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.
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"â@@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.
Nokia is often thought to be Japanese or Korean but itâs from a small town called Nokia in Finland. đ«đź
Yup.
Actually, Nokia is from Espoo, Finland. Nokia was the (Romanian) name of its founder.
@@SiqueScarface Yes itâs 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. đ
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.
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.
@@mayaorozco6374 So they chose a spelling that's unmistakably NOT Danish.
The À is not part of the Danish alphabet; and the sz combination is only used in loanwords or foreign names. Judging from the pronunciation, HÀagen-Dasz could sound Hungarian, they do have ù 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 đ
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 thatâs what their business was there.
See, in Germany, the Deutsche Telekom company originally wasnât created of the state owned Bundespost, the federal postal service. They managed all the landline stuff and Telekom still does these things today, theyâre 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. Thatâs our national postal service but also privatized now.
So the former federally owned Bundespost split into two privatized businesses
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.
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 đ€Łđ.
One that many Americans (or people from all over the world for that matter) don't know is that Spotify is Swedish.
Woah đ€Ż đ
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
If it's not Airbus, I rather take the bus. đ
Thank you đ I will use that đ
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So I do with Boeing...
@@altblechasyl_cs2093 If it's Boeing i'm not going.
@@itsmebatman Your fault...
Itâs quite common for people in the States to just assume that so many big corporations are from the US. Iâm from the USA but Iâve been living overseas since the 90s. I donât call myself âAmericanâ anymore because Iâve heard a lot of people overseas saying WTF? American can be applied to anyone from North or South America. So itâs kind of rude for us to claim the title American when Canadians, Mexicans, Argentinians, Brazilians etc are also Americans
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. Todayâs 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, Ć koda, 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. Iâd 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
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!
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?
Please dont put the EU flag when saying Europe. Europe and the EU are too entirely different things. Half of Europe isnt in the EU. Eurovision has banned the EU flag for those reasons.
His biggest Audience, Brits, despise that flag. So he's kind of shooting himself in the foot there.
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 ĂŒ or French ou and u. IMHO any instructions in "English" don't make sense: marry merry Mary, if you will.
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Having said that i suggest a grain of salt being not a native in any of those languages.
So, how do you pronounce "Paris" in Swedish or English?
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. :-)
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.
Swede here. Thank you for pronouncing IKEA the right way â€
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).
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â@@Cloudberry84 yea, but it terrible that they gone woke too
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 1930âs 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 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 .. đ
The 'Royal Dutch' part should be revoked, now they've moved out of the country.
â@@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.
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.
Ten brands from five European countries belong to the Group: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Ć KODA, 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
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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, Ć KODA, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Porsche as well as Bentley, Lamborghini and Ducati.
â@@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
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.
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
Iâm 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 Brouwerâs 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 âthe Boschâ. One of local cartoonists drew a picture of the site and was showing his wife âLook. I told you this was where our sinks are made.â
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.
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 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.
Fun fact: the world famous ukulele isn't an Hawaiian instrument. It's originally from Portugal. Bet you didn't know that one. đ
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.
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
@@user-yk1cf8qb7q Alway sade
HSBC started in Hong Kong under British rule. so they are a British/Hong Kong based bank
HSBC traces its origin to a hong trading house in British Hong Kong. The bank was established in 1865 in Hong Kong and opened branches in Shanghai in the same year
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
đđI think my brain hurts... But I ain't certain it is my brain... Or if it is mine... I think I'm confused đđ€đ
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
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
@@Jan54321Theyâre something else, arenât they? Dripping with it.
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.
Inbev is a belgian-brazilian company that is owned by the group 3G Capital, a brazilian-american private equity that also owns Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeye's and Heinz
Now,that was a lightning fast scroll over Gazprom đ
Americans still LOVE russians. Thats genetic
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.
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..
IKEA is also more or less a Dutch company, but not for tax reasons. IKEA's shares have been placed in a Dutch foundation to protect the company against the arbitrariness of major shareholders or possible hostile takeovers.
You cannot say that IKEA is more or less Dutch, no matter how many shares other countries possesses. Ikea is literally the name of the founder and the farm and place he grew up on in Sweden (Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd). I'm from Norway, not Sweden btw đ
- 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.
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.
17:12 Kofola is awesome! We have it everywhere here in Slovakia too. It's a softer, more soda water-like cola.
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.
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.
I really like your comments...always with kindness, intelligence and curiosity. It's not always like that with Americans. Well done and keep going!
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.
â@@caelorumNXP was earlier Philips Semiconductor.
ASML would be nothing without Jenoptik / Zeiss âïž
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.
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
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.
Shell was created through a merger of two companies, one British (The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company) and one Dutch (Royal Dutch Petroleum Company) in 1907, that's why its official name is Royal Dutch Shell. Originally the merged company was 60% owned by its Dutch mother company and 40% by its British mother company, but these days the mother companies no longer exist as separate entities.
Heineken is one of the biggest beer companies and is Dutch. The other big beer company is AB Inbev which is Belgian. Both bought a lot of foreign brands worldwide. So now both are pretty much global companies.
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
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.
@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
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.
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.
â@@marflittsRedbull has always been Thai majority-owned (51%).
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.
â@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
ââ@@esaedvik What about Barry Callebaut
, Baronie (owners of Jaques) and Lotte (owners of Guylian), Lotus bakeries?
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 đȘ
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
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 đ
@@frontwing67 same thing happened to the Triump marque which is owned by BMW. They kept it off the market because they didnât want it to compete with the Z3
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
@@wiganfan3373Itâs ânot a placeâ? F&ck me đ
@@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
Yepp, Shell is Dutch but headquartered in London, mostly due to tax reasons before Brexit. Switching headquarters isn't as easy as imagined by most people but I'm pretty certain that Shell has been contemplating the move of their HQ since then.
Edit: VW, yepp when summing up all companies that are technically subsidiaries or partly owned by VW then it is the largest car manufacturer in the world. However each individual car company included is definitely not among the largest. It's just the sum total that's insanely huge.
Edit 2: Airbus HQ may be situated in the Netherlands but their production facilities are all over Europe. It was created as a pan-European company as a counterbalance to the huge industrial monopoly of Boeing.
Their production facilities work together across Europe often shipping whole segments of fuselages, wings, tail sections preconstructed to other specialized facilities. For example, the facility here in Hamburg Finkenwerder sees regular flights of the Superguppy transport plane carrying wing sections from the Toulouse plant in France.
The idea was that having an airplane producer across multiple countries would strengthen the ties between these countries making an inner-European war much more unlikely if you couldn't build military transport planes or heavy bombers only in one country.
Edit 3: yepp, Husqvarna is the top company for anything bladed and garden work tools. They basically set the standard that everybody else attempts to emulate. You simply can't go wrong with Husqvarna tools if you can afford to buy them. They're usually buy and forget kinda tools. You buy them once and they stay with you a lifetime.
Shell transport company was a British company which merged with Royal Dutch Petroleum to form Royal Dutch Shell. It has now moved its HQ to London and renamed as just Shell.
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 ozđ )
That might be beside the point but sometimes I consider the blue of your eyes being CGI intensified. đđđ
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....
â@@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.
â@@ruidaniel2300
It was never Mobil.
Shell was actually an Anglo Dutch company - Hence Royal Dutch Shell, they decided to completely headquarter in the UK.
Cool video idea, Ian! :) I think companies like Nestle and Unilever are kind of insane. It's really crazy how, in the end, only a handful of corporations own all the different brands you see in the store. Regarding Shell: Shell has Dutch origins, and for long time had dual corporate structure involving two parent companies, one in the UK and one in the Netherlands. But in 2021 it chose to simplify its share structure and it is now only headquartered in London.
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...đ
Switzerland is the best country in terms of Chocolate and watches like Rolex.
Belgian chocolate is better but both are great. Swiss tends to be more fatty and creamy. Belgian tends to have higher cocoa content and is a richer chocolate, ie dark.
Shell is dutch/british. Origin is the netherlands. Parent company is dutch. Headquartered in london since a year or two. Complex construction.
Origin is not just the Netherlands. The name Shell is from the UK from when the two companies merged.
Rolex is a non-profit organisation as a charity, under the Hans Wildorf Foundation. This gives it a different status to regular companies. Besides the favourable tax situation, it doesnât have to reveal financial accounts nor show how many watches they make. They do give a lot to charity while remaining quite secretive as a watch maker.
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 worldđđ. 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.
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, SĂŁo 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
Paulaner Spezi is soled as "Sunset" in the US
Shell was Dutch but became Dutch/English and eventually moved headquarters to the UK.
In reality it is a multi-national and operates all over the world.
Airbus is a consortium of a number of European aviation companies.
The fact that it's based in the Netherlands is probably for corporate tax reasons. Stellantis does the same.
Rolex is one of the top quality mechanical watch makers and Switzerland is THE place to be for high-end luxury watches.
red bull is originally from Thailand The Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz ended up there on a business trip and brought it to Europe. After his death, his son inherited 49% of the company the remaining 51% have a Thai family. but red bull is much more than a beverage manufacturer. They own a considerable fleet of historic aircraft, several sports clubs and of course the 2 F1 teams
Plus TV channels, magazines and an entire content production arm. Hangar 8 (the one with the historic aircraft) is pretty cool, but knowing how people who work at Red Bull are treated, I'm not a fan.
Heh, Unilever are a bit like 3M;
"What do you make?"
"Yes."
yeah. I would have compared it to Procter&Gamble.
Shell is a Dutch company but for some reason they decided to move their headquarters to the UK after brexit before that they had offices in both UK and Holland.
Shell was a British company that merged with Royal Dutch Petroleum to become an Anglo-Dutch company.
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!
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.
Fun fact: it was a British officer of the occupation forces, Major Ivan Hirst of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, who led efforts to rebuild Volkswagen after WW2 after the Soviets and US passed on it (Henry Ford II was invited to inspect the company and deemed it worthless). Irn-Bru is pronounced 'iron brew' and is overwhelmingly popular in Scotland but largely considered an 'acquired taste' elsewhere. (It can usually be found in countries with significant Scottish communities - including the US). It was traditionally thought of as a hangover cure for shipyard workers in Glasgow and is infamously lacking in iron and not brewed. Vimto is pretty popular in the UK but puzzlingly massive amongst Arabs as well as in Gambia and Senegal. (Unlikely to be popular in the US as blackcurrant is one of the main ingredients.)
IRN-BRU has been ruined since they started replacing some of the sugar with artificial sweeteners. I think you can buy an all sugar version in Scotland but I havenât seen it in Ireland.
Funnily enough I just watched a documentary about VW and Major Hirst's involvement in making it the success it is today! I didn't know the Beetle was built in its thousands for the British and American armies in Europe after the war!
Shell is a UK company. The Dutch part comes from an earlier merger between Shell Transport and Trading company UK and the Royal Dutch Petroleum company Netherlands (hence the name Royal Dutch Shell). So basically it operates as a single economic entity but has two parent companies one British and one Dutch.
fun fact telecommunications used to go through the Post so DHL and Telekom both kinds originate from there
T Mobile is just the mobile phone part, so yes same company
Yes. T-Mobile in the USA is Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
HSBC used to be Midland Bank, but HSBC stands for The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Not quite, they were separate companies and HSBC bought Midland Bank - the branches of Midland then became HSBC.
@@jinxvrs I think HSBC also created First Direct, the telephone banking service. I do remember when Midland rebranded after the sale to HSBC. From memory they started buying equity in Midland back in the late 80s them bought them out completely around 1992 or 1993.
You forgot ASML. a dutsh company worth 400 billion USD. Its the marktleader in semiconductors. their ships sit in everything you use.
No. ASML does not produce any semiconductors at all. (Dutch NXP does, though). Both ASML and NXP are former parts of Philips Electronics (also Dutch). ASML is the market leader in creating the machines needed to create semiconductors.
Shell was formed from a merger between Royal Dutch Petroleum + The Shell Transport & Trading Company, so a Dutch and British company. Until very recently the company was headquartered in the Netherlands, but then since the board became entirely British and they could also get some extra tax benefits in the UK, they moved the headquarters.
Stellantis is a conglomeration of a lot of companies. It's registered in the Netherlands (just like f.e. parts of Wallmart (while we don't have any stores here) and Apple, the Irish band U2 and Ferrari (which is in fact also part of Stellantis but registered separately) because of tax reasons. Stellantis came from the merger between PSA (mainly Peugeot + Citroën) and FCA (Fiat-Chrystler) and PSA was the dominant factor here, so it's essentially a French company registered in the Netherlands. But indeed, I agree, the daughter companies like Chrystler and Alfa-Romeo are companies of their country. However, the organization Stellantis, is French lead.
Airbus is French, but also registered in the Netherlands for the very same reasons. Unilever, kinda the same even though the do have history in the Netherlands in their origin story. But today they are more British than Dutch, however, they like the Dutch tax politics better. The Netherlands is a tax haven, even though our Libertarian Party who lead the country for many years will always deny this.
T-Mobile in the US functions as a separate company but is still under majority ownership of Deutsche Telekom. Having said that, it's like 51%, But T-Mobile is a strong brand in the US, so even if they had the option to use a different brand name, there is no reason to do this.
If you have time, take a look at the history of Adidas and Puma, it's very special. They were two brothers who fell out and then became rivals in the same town, and the rivalry still exists today. Absolutely crazy story.
It is almost like the Aldi Nord and Aldi SĂŒd rivalry đ
Airbus is from France. Probably has a durch hq for tax reasons. The Netherlands is a tax heaven for big companies. Many companies take advantage of this.
Airbus is from France, Germany, Spain and UK.
Check wikipedia. Airbus is not French: it is a multinational conglomerate part of EADS.
â@@virtueofhate1778Yes thats right
The headquarters is at Blagnac in France
compared to real tax heavens it's really not... but inside the EU you really only have the netherlands and ireland with favorable tax laws... and Airbus gets like 80% of their contracts from EU companies and gets subsidies to the moon by the EU... would definitely not be the case if they were to move outside
vodafone simply means "what a phone"
Vodafone overtake Mannesmann (Mobilfunk) in the late 1990s and sold all non Mobile Phone branches to Bosch and Siemens a few years later..đ€
@@martinkasper197 Mannesmann Mobilfunk. Jep da kann ich mich noch dran erinnern
It doesn't.
Hi Ian one that was missed out of your list is Reebok started in Bolton UK until bought by Adidas 2005
The holding Airbus SE is registered in Leiden, NL, that's why they come up a Dutch company, but the operational HQ is in France (Toulouse-Blagnac), which is also the HQ of the commercial Aircraft branch. (HQ for the Airbus Defense and Space divison is in Germany (Taufkirchen, near Munich))
shell is dutch and brittish
Anglo-dutch to be precise
No longer "Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England"
Shell is Dutch but her headquarters is in London from 2323
so won't be in London until 299 years from now ;)
"Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England"
Continental tyres on Renault Clio RS Sports, in Australia were replaced by Dunlop or Bridgestone as they were TOO soft for everyday driving on typical Aussie roads, as opposed to when they would be used less frequently on track days.
Another swede here, and how nice to see Husqvarna featured. Obviously a staple brand in and around many a swede's home, be it sewing machines, waffle irons, stoves, mopeds or guns. One of the biggest moped brands back in the 50s/60s in fact, as well as provider of engines to other moped brands. Not to mention their legendary motorcycles of course. IKEA however, that one I have a really hard time to wrap my head around how that could have ended up such an attractive pastime over there. Here in Sweden you go there only because you have to, and I honestly can't think of many places I'd be less inclined to set my foot in.
You should do a dive into some Swedish automotive history for a future video by the way, checking out some vintage Volvo and Saab, that would be a fun one to watch.