American Reacts to Big Companies From Around Europe

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[rikerD]

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.

[kobbetop]

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

[Bob]

Nobody but an American could look at the words Stihl, Husqvarna, Nestle, Bosch, Zurich (!) and think they were American. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[PLF...]

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.

[tomhekker]

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.

[cousinluigi]

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.

[klamin_original]

6:20 yes, T-mobile was created as a brand by Deutsche Telekom.
We had the t-mobile brand as well in the early 2000s in Germany. The company Deutsche Telekom just chose to unify all their brands to Telekom apart from business brands like T-Systems. In the US they simply chose to keep the T-mobile name since that’s what their business was there.
See, in Germany, the Deutsche Telekom company originally was just a branch of the state owned Bundespost, the federal postal service. They managed all the landline stuff and Telekom still does these things today, they’re the main provider in Germany.
And since at 7:10 it mentions Deutsche Post owning DHL, Deutsche Post is actually the former Bundespost I just talked about. That’s our national postal service but also privatized now.
So the former federally owned Bundespost split into two privatized businesses, one for postal services and one for telecommunications. Or rather three businesses, since there was a finance branch being privatized as „Postbank“.

[PaniPunia]

The "invisible" company from Finland is KONE. They make elevators. There's a fair chance you used their products without knowing it.

[gamingtonight]

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!

[dontnickmyname]

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.

[davidmalarkey]

It's funny how Americans assume everything is American.

[TerenceDixon-lb]

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.

[RobinDeur]

One that many Americans (or people from all over the world for that matter) don't know is that Spotify is Swedish.

[azynkron]

- Company has a German name.
- 'murican: Wow, I didn't know they were German!

- Company is named after Switzerland's largest city.
- 'murican: Wow, are you really Swiss?

[stevenanderson]

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

[paulocarvalho]

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

[elaa]

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.

[juanmontull]

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.

[gaborbakos]

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

[AurelAvramescu]

Regarding to Bosch, every automobile produced in the world is having something made by Bosch,