Peter Wong (not his real name) was a rising star in of one of the largest global banks in the world.
In my opinion, any one of the largest four global audit firms could audit, if rotated into service, any of the largest global financial services firms.
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And Maha Al-Ghunaim (No. 94) is the cofounder and chair of Kuwaiti bank Global Investment House, one of the largest banks in the area.
Along with the standard free bag of coffee beans, shareholders were treated to the kind of razzmatazz one expects from such a high-profile, global company - the largest retailer of gourmet coffee in the world.
Founded in 1981, TCL is one of the largest consumer electronics enterprises in China with a global presence.
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In the 18th century, it was home to one of the largest population of free blacks in the New World even as it became one of the centers of the global slave trade and home to some of its most violent abuses.
It owns one of the world's largest vehicle fleets, operates a leading global fleet management business, and offers a portfolio of product solutions including charging stations, circuit protection equipment and transformers that touch every part of electric vehicle infrastructure development.
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"Methane hydrate was a key cause of the global warming that led to one of the largest extinctions in the earth's history, " Ryo Matsumoto, a professor at the University of Tokyo who has spent 20 years researching the subject, told Bloomberg in December.
Nokia is one of the largest smartphone makers in the world with one of the best global distribution networks, in particular in rapidly growing emerging markets.
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With the global clean energy economy emerging as one of the largest economic opportunities of the 21st century, government policy and public investment will be critical determinants of which countries come out on top in the race to attract private sector investment in clean energy technologies.
Cameco Corporation, based in Saskatoon, Canada, is one of the largest uranium producers in the world, accounting for 16% of global production, according to its website.
All four of the largest global audit firms are involved in the scandal one way or the other by virtue of their roles as auditors or consultants or both.
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With Monsanto we are investing in one of the largest genetically modified seed producers who have the potential to help us meet our global food needs.
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As one of the world's largest creative networks, Vimeo has over 15M registered members and reaches a global audience of more than 93M each month.
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One is the vast wealth of oil-producing states in a global industry where the best and largest assets are not in the hands of what the Economist calls "the most efficient and best capitalized firms, " namely the major oil companies.
Having two global business newspapers owned, even partly, by one of the world's largest companies would create a potentially devastating conflict of interest.
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NGOs such as Effectius, a global justice nonprofit based out of Brussels and Berlin, and MoveOn.org, one of the largest Political Action Committees in the country, both use home-based models.
Since your reform of the licensing raj and embrace of the global economy, India has lifted tens of millions of people from poverty and created one of the largest middle classes on the planet.
China is already one of the largest markets for mobile telephones and pagers, personal computers and antibiotics, and accounts for about one-third of global cigarette consumption.
Chile went from being a small player in the global fruit market, exporting just apples in the 1960s, to become one of the world's largest fruit exporters in the 1990s.
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