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.

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.

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.

It's funny how Americans assume everything is American.

Nokia is often thought to be Japanese or Korean but it’s from a small town called Nokia in Finland. 🇫🇮

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="380">6:20</a> 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 wasn’t created 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 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="430">7:10</a> 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 that many Americans (or people from all over the world for that matter) don't know is that Spotify is Swedish.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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.

Swede here. Thank you for pronouncing IKEA the right way ❤

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.

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.

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.

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.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="538">8:58</a> 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.

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.

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.

Now,that was a lightning fast scroll over Gazprom 😄

Fun fact: the world famous ukulele isn't an Hawaiian instrument. It's originally from Portugal. Bet you didn't know that one. 😁

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😅)

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.

If it's not Airbus, I rather take the bus. 😀

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

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).

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1020">17:00</a> 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.

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).

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.

HSBC stands for Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters in Hong Kong but they have branches everywhere like the UK

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

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.

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

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")

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.

The way you pronounce Peugeot is the funniest thing. Never heard it said like that.

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.

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

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

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.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1032">17:12</a> Kofola is awesome! We have it everywhere here in Slovakia too. It's a softer, more soda water-like cola.

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.

Americans never cease to amaze me how insular they are

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="683">11:23</a> 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...

@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

@iwrocker you made the reference that technically some US car brands are European. You could say the same for trucks as Mack is owned by Volvo which makes it Swedish. And Peterbilt is owned by DAF which is Dutch that is owned by Paccar that is a US company. And Freightliner is owned by Daimler Truck and there for German owned

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.

Also dutch Philips and ASML

I really like your comments...always with kindness, intelligence and curiosity. It's not always like that with Americans. Well done and keep going!

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

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)

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

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.

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 💪

That might be beside the point but sometimes I consider the blue of your eyes being CGI intensified. 😁😁😁

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.

Shell was actually an Anglo Dutch company - Hence Royal Dutch Shell, they decided to completely headquarter in the UK.

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.

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.

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

Shell is dutch/british. Origin is the netherlands. Parent company is dutch. Headquartered in london since a year or two. Complex construction.

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.

Airbus is an European consortium. I don't know of any other prominent joint ventures on that scale in EU.

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 doesn’t 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.

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))

Reebok was initially a UK company

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.

Shell is (was) a Dutch Company, but they moved their HQ and legal entity to UK to avoid costs on environmental laws.

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.

BP used to stand for British Petroleum but as they are more international now they changed their name to just BP.

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

Anheuser-Busch itself is American, but it was bought by Interbrew (Inbev) in 2008, which now call themselves Anheuser-Busch Inbev. Interbrew itself goes back many centuries to the Belgian brewery Den Hoorn, founded in 1366.

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.

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

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.)

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.

Kofola can be bought in many European countries and has both tap and bottle variants. It's not "*a*" coke, it has a distinct bitter-sweet taste, which one can easily become "addicted" to. People usually drink it - especially the tap Kofola - in restaurants and pubs as a non-alcoholic alternative to beer.

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.

Switzerland is the best country in terms of Chocolate and watches like Rolex.

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.

Stellantis is a fusion between fiat/chrysler automobiles and the PSA group, Italian and french and they decided hat their new company would be based in the Netherlands.

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.

You forgot ASML. a dutsh company worth 400 billion USD. Its the marktleader in semiconductors. their ships sit in everything you use.

T-Mobile is a subsidiary of Telekom, like you said. Telekom actually originated from the german Federal Post that was privatized and split into three separate companies in the mid 90s. Until then the Federal Post was responsible (aside from the usual postal services) for Telecommunications. They actually set up the technological standards used for stuff like Phones and also designed and built their own in germany. The other two companies the Bundespost (Federal Post) got split up to are the Deutsche Post AG (German Post) that bought DHL in 2002 and uses DHL Group as their trade name (officially they are still the Deutsche Post AG) and the German Postbank AG that got bought by and integrated into the Deutsche Bank AG (largest Bank in Germany) following the 2008 financial crisis when the Postbank was on the verge of bankruptcy. An interesting fact for all three of these companies is, that since they used to be federally owned and were federal institutions they had mostly civil servants that have a special status (similar to like police officers for example) in germany and special rights (and duties, like pledging loyalty to the german state and as such not attacking it or doing something to damage it etc.). They also don't/didn't pay into the regular german pension system but instead receive pensions specifically for civil servants. Most interestingly though the jobs of civil servants in germany are guaranteed by law. This means they cannot be fired unless they committed a crime and got sentenced to at least a year or a disciplinary commission decides they are not fit to hold the status and represent the german state, as that is what's expected of you as a civil servant. (example: you're a civil servant but run as a candidate for a political party that is deemed unconstitutional or hostile to the state) When it comes to the Post this meant that around 500.000 people could not be fired and instead had to be employed by the then new companies. It's been almost 30 years since then so most of them retired or struck deals and moved on to other jobs but around 40-50.000 civil servants still remain in the Telekom, Post AG and Postbank. A lot of them also retired early at 55, receiving the full pension from that point on. By comparison the regular entry-age for Pensioners in Germany used to be 65 until 2011 and then got gradually increased to 67.

Stihl is from my hometown Waiblingen in Baden-Württemberg near to Stuttgart...They have 3 factories there.🤓 Last time I were there when they opened their museum and brand shop in Werk 1 in late 2023. When all neighbors from Neustadt (part of Waiblingen) could visit for free.👍🤘

Heh, Unilever are a bit like 3M; "What do you make?" "Yes."

HSBC used to be Midland Bank, but HSBC stands for The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

As a driver for DHL I can actually say, it is American born. The letters stood for the names of 3 americans that founded it but was eventually bought in germany and created onto something big.

Yes, "T-Mobile is the brand name used by some of the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG in the Czech Republic (T-Mobile Czech Republic), Poland (T-Mobile Polska) and the United States (T-Mobile US). " (Wikipedia). It's the same company. :D