Portal:Companies

Welcome to Wikipedia's companies portal, which seeks to analyse companies by country and industry.

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Contents: Associated Wikimedia • Categorical index • Did you know? • Index by industry • List of good and featured articles • Related portals • Selected article • Selected picture • Selected ranking • Things you can do

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GM Holden Ltd is an Australian automaker based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was originally independent, but since 1931 has been a subsidiary of General Motors (GM). Holden has taken charge of vehicle operations for GM in Australasia and, on behalf of GM, holds partial ownership of GM Daewoo in South Korea. Over the years, Holden has offered a broad range of locally produced vehicles, supplemented by imported GM models. In the past, Holden has offered badge engineered Isuzu, Nissan, Suzuki and Toyota models in sharing arrangements.

Holden bodyworks are manufactured at Elizabeth, South Australia, and engines are produced at Port Melbourne, Victoria. Historically, production or assembly plants were operated in all mainland states of Australia: Acacia Ridge, Queensland; Dandenong, Victoria; Mosman Park, Western Australia; Pagewood, New South Wales; and Woodville, South Australia. Until 1990, GM's New Zealand subsidiary Holden New Zealand operated a plant based in Trentham, with a plant in Petone running until 1984. The consolidation of car production at Elizabeth was completed in 1988, but some assembly operations continued at Dandenong until 1996.

Although Holden's involvement in exports has fluctuated since the 1950s, the declining sales of large cars in Australia has led the company to look to international markets to increase profitability; in 2006, exports alone accounted for almost AU$1.3 billion in earnings.

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A Cessna 182P, flown in Swifts Creek, Victoria. Cessna Aircraft Company, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, specializing in small, piston-powered aircraft and medium-sized business jets. The company traces its history to June 1911, when Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built a wood-and-fabric plane and became the first person to build and fly an aircraft between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Today employing 9,500 people, Cessna has been a subsidiary of Textron since 1992.

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Did you know ...

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

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• ... that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops?
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• ... that Aso Mining Company, which belongs to former Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II?
• ... that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production?
• ... that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media's films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards?

Selected top 10 ranking

Largest market capitalization in Q4 2009
1		PetroChina
2		ExxonMobil
3		Microsoft
4		ICBC
5		Wal-Mart
6		China Construction Bank
7		BHP Billiton
8		HSBC
9		Petrobras
10		Apple
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Good and featured articles

Featured articles BAE Systems · Elderly Instruments · Holden · Icos · Microsoft · NeXT · Odwalla · Oliver Typewriter Company · Scene7 (category...) Featured lists Lists of company acquisitions: Adobe Systems · AOL · Apple · Cisco Systems · Condé Nast · eBay · Electronic Arts · Google · Juniper Networks · Microsoft · Red Hat · Symantec · Yahoo! (category...) A-Class articles Blue Network (category...)

Good articles Abir Congo Company · Apollo Management · Arkia Israel Airlines · Blackstone Group · Boosey & Hawkes · Bovet Fleurier · British Airways · Burger King legal issues · Cargolink · Chemetco · Chipotle Mexican Grill · Chuck E. Cheese's · Color Air · Crazy Eddie · Dragonair · Facebook · Flytoget · Grameen Bank · Great Southern Group · Gulf Oil · Harley Davidson · Hershey Creamery Company · History of British Airways · Hochtief · Holt Manufacturing Company · Innherredsferja · International Speedway Corporation · Jay Cooke & Company · Key · Kohlberg Kravis Roberts · Marine Harvest · Mr. Lady Records · Mzoli's · NSB Gjøvikbanen · National Westminster Bank · Nokian Tyres · Ofotbanen · Pearson's Candy Company · Pixar · Poundland · Slackers CDs and Games · Sony/ATV Music Publishing · Steorn · TouchWave · Transit Authority of River City · Twitter · Union Stock Yards · Vildanden · Wizards of the Coast (category...)

Things you can do

Here are some tasks you can do: Article requests: see Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Businesses and organizations Assess: Rio Tinto Group, Stave Puzzles, Category:Unassessed Companies articles Cleanup: Organizational_retaliatory_behavior - Should probably be merged to Whistle blower Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company PbNation-This article is currently in the format of a forum, however it is more notable as a company(if it is notable at all) than a forum. Essar Group - needs proper introduction section, headers, and better flow Copyedit: work on Category:Companies articles needing attention Expand: Cameco, Japan Steel Works, Mrs. Fields, BW Gas, BAE Systems Information Technology, IndyMac Bank (in the news as of July 11), AIG Infobox: work on Category:Companies articles needing infoboxes Maintain: Portal:Companies NPOV: Alabama Cooperative Extension System, written almost entirely by a news and public affairs employee at ACES, so needs some neutral eyes to give it a going over to check for both neutrality, and layout/content inclusion, etc. Stubs: Category:Company stubs Wikify: Barry Callebaut, AED Oil Limited, IOCOM Other: Tag the pages of any company articles with the {{portal|Companies}} template Tag the talk pages of any company articles with the {{WikiProject Companies}} project banner Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them if they would like to join our efforts Contribute to discussions on project guidelines and lists Identify articles for improvement and list here

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