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Chinese PC maker Lenovo has replaced Hewlett-Packard as the world's top PC maker, according to preliminary figures released by research firm Gartner.
Loyal fans like Schiele have made Electronic Arts the world's largest maker of videogame software.
The combined company will overtake DaimlerChrysler to become the world's biggest maker of heavy lorries.
The world's largest maker of glass bottles, Owens-Illinois, branched into plastics in the mid-1990s, fueling top-line growth.
One thing hasn't: Cummins Engine, the world's biggest maker of heavy-duty diesel engines, still doesn't make money.
Olympus is the world's largest maker of endoscopes, and Sasa is currently director of Olympus Medical Services.
Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest maker of personal computers, is to cut 27, 000 jobs by end of 2014.
The company is the world's largest maker of television sets and memory chips, in addition to mobile phones.
The world's largest maker of computer chips, Intel, has cut its three-month sales forecast and withdrawn its full-year predictions.
Samsung, which is also the world's biggest maker of memory chips, will release it final quarterly results on 26 April.
By the late 1980s, Yamaha had become the world's leading maker of musical instruments of all kinds, not just pianos.
Google in the fourth quarter dethroned Nokia as the world's largest maker of smartphone software, according to market researcher Canalys.
Geox, an innovative and successful shoemaker, produces most of its goods abroad, as does Luxottica, the world's leading maker of sunglasses.
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It now appears to have bragging rights as the world's biggest maker of rubber gloves, at least in terms of its capacity.
Runs YKK, world's leading maker of zippers and a building materials supplier.
The world-renowned chocolate maker has surpassed expectations in each of the first three quarters of 2012, and will report again on January 28.
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Supported by the Brazilian government and later largely privatised, Embraer has overtaken Canada's Bombardier to become the world's leading maker of regional jets.
The world's largest maker of personal computers, Hewlett-Packard, has seen a 6% drop in first-quarter sales as demand for PCs continued to shrink.
At the same time, it has sold enough inexpensive low-end phones to edge out Nokia Corp. as the world's largest maker of phones.
The prospect has brought Scott, 45, to Nvidia, the Santa Clara, Calif. company that is the world's largest maker of graphics-processing units, or GPUs.
Kikkoman, for example, founded in 1630 and now the world's leading maker of soy sauce, has expanded into food flavouring and, latterly, into biotech.
Finland's Nokia Corp. was for many years the world's largest maker of cellphones, but it has failed to translate that into success in smartphones.
BYD, for example, is the world's largest maker of nickel-cadmium batteries, and India's Reliance Group makes more polyester fibre and yarn than anyone else.
The deal moves Novartis above Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, an Israeli firm, to become the world's leading maker of generic drugs through its Sandoz division.
Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest maker of PCs, saw a 24% fall in shipments in the first quarter compared with the same period a year ago.
Dell, once the world's leading maker of PCs, ceded the crown to a resurgent Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ).
The earnings announced Wednesday, covering the fiscal second quarter ending on Jan. 26, exceeded analyst projections for the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment.
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