ten companies that secretly control the world number ten Nestle most of the
products that you buy are owned by surprisingly small number of
monopolistic companies take Nestle for example they own over 8500 different
brands in 80 countries they start off of the kind of brands you'd expect arrow
KitKat Milky Bar etc but then there are some products that you probably never
imagined would be owned by the chocolate giant such as shredded wheat Gerber baby
foods hot pockets and Purina pet food they also an approximately 23% of
cosmetic powerhouse L'Oreal which cell phones huge brands Garnier Maybelline
and The Body Shop and Nestle isn't the only food company whose Reach is greater
than you think Kellogg's owns big brands eggo Pringles
and cheese it Pepsi Co owns Quaker Oatmeal Cheetos and Tropicana and crafts
acquisitions range from Oreos to Vegemite and Cadbury to daringly so how
have Nestle used their massive clouds well as it turns out not always for good
in 2013 the company was accused of depriving locals of water in a small
Pakistani community by repurposing the local well for their bottled water
production company Pure Life number nine Lockheed Martin with global military
expenditures standing at over 1.7 trillion dollars every year it's no
surprise that companies producing and supplying weapons exert a huge amount of
power over world events Lockheed Martin is the world's largest weapons
manufacturer they employ 126 thousand people and rake in 69 point three
billion dollars a year in profit national militaries around the world
rely on Lockheed for example it's the USA's largest government contractor
receiving 10% of the Pentagon's funds they also supply weapons to Germany
India Israel Japan the UK and numerous other countries showing the
wide-reaching extent of their influence over worldwide conflicts however
Lockheed Martin's control has spread beyond even this they spend a great deal
of money on lobbying especially in America investing approximately 10
million dollars a year into this they tend to offer their financial support to
political candidates who advocate higher national defense spending in order to
ensure more investments in their own products clever
number eights quanta Computer Inc Mac versus PC
it's been one of the biggest rivalries of the technological age when buying a
laptop a lot of people have strong loyalties to one or the other
and it's a battle that shows no signs have died down anytime soon but at the
end of the day doesn't really matter max Dells HP Sony's Toshiba x' all these
laptops come from the same manufacturer quanta Computer Inc quanta is a
taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware
which was founded in 1988 the company has an estimated 31 percent worldwide
market share of notebook computers with approximately 70% of adults in the
Western world owning a laptop this equates to a simply
gigantic reach for quanta it has also grown beyond laptop production and now
has fingers in many technological ties quanta has influence in mobile
communication GPS systems and home entertainment in 2011 they even
collaborated with Facebook as part of the Oakland compute project which aimed
to create more efficient servers storage and data center hardware designs number
seven in bed it's no secret that alcohol plays a big role in society 56 percent
of American adults questioned in a 2015 national survey admitted to drinking in
the past month an estimated eighty eight thousand people die from alcohol-related
causes every year an excessive drinking cost the health services staggering two
hundred and twenty three point five billion dollars a year with such a
variety of temples available you would expect the responsibility for alcohol
consumption to fall into a large number of different companies but there is
actually only one company who has a huge monopoly of the beer industry InBev it
owns 46 percent of the beer markets in America and as a net profit of 3.4
billion dollars a year in fact most of the beers you can buy from a store
belong to the in that beer Empire including Stella Artois Budweiser X and
Corona InBev also have majority states and other huge companies such as grupo
modelo which makes most of the base in Mexico
basically whenever you're treating yourself to a beer or two there's a very
strong likelihood that your money will at some point end up in embarrass pocket
number six Pfizer the industry for painkillers antibiotics and vitamin
supplements is currently booming with experts estimating that the global
farmer market will reach one point one two trillion dollars by 2022
this basically puts a large portion of the world's population under the thumb
of the planets big pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer
Pfizer is an American is global pharmaceutical corporation
making forty billion dollars in profit every year it's the largest research
based drug maker in the world with less products marketed in more than 150
countries the company therefore has a lot of control over millions of people's
were beings a responsibility that they had a questionably in 2016 the drug
giant was fired over 100 million dollars for illegally hiking up the price of an
anti epilepsy drug by two thousand six hundred percent overnight this directly
affected how much the UK's National Health Service had to pay and strip
fifty thousand people of potentially life-saving medication the production of
prescription drugs is the company's primary source of revenue but Pfizer's
worldwide control doesn't stop there they have behind numerous well-known
healthcare products such as Listerine and sudafed
as well as being a massively influential player in the animal health industry
number five Pierson Pierson is one of the biggest publishers of educational
material in the world despite being based in London 60% of its sales go to
the states and it operates in more than 70 countries the company owns numerous
educational publishing giants for example Penguin Harcourt and prentice
hall its influence over the American education system is so great that
theoretically you could be taking Pierson designed test from kindergarten
through to eighth grade you could study a piece and design curriculum using
Pierce and publish textbooks and be taught by teachers certified by Pearson
tests and with such a monopoly of the education sector Pearson has been able
to hike up prices without anyone really able to stop them over the last few
decades the cost of textbooks has arguably increased more than any other
aspects of education yes even more than college tuition according to The
Huffington Post textbook prices have increased a whopping eight hundred and
twelve percent in the last 30 years allegedly because of the reduced
competition brought about by Pearson's monopoly number four ICBC bankers are
ultimately responsible for stabilizing the economy which ripples through every
aspect of our lives their power influences everything from the big scale
decisions of governments to the prices of individual food items in your weekly
grocery shop if you combine the wealth of the world's
10 largest banks you'd have twenty five point one trillion dollars which would
be enough to fund the entire US government for over seven years the
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China the state-owned Banking Goliath is
undoubtedly the most powerful bank on the planet it has over three trillion
dollars in assets and market value of 215 point six billion
dollars media reign supreme at the top of Forbes as well as biggest public
companies list and the bank's influence isn't limited to China I CBC has a
foothold in every continent except Antarctica employing nearly half a
million people globally and they have also extended their control by turning
other major banks into ICBC subsidiaries for example Turkey's textile bank and
South Africa's Standard Bank number three
Monsanto Monsanto the American giant specializing in agricultural
biotechnology is estimated to be worth a huge sixty five billion dollars Monsanto
has a near total control over the American seed market for example they
trademark nearly 80 percent of the corn grown in the country this may not sound
like the most influential monopoly in the world the corn is actually an
integral ingredient in a surprising number of products corn corn syrup and
corn starch show up in gas glue makeup soap toothpaste aspirin diapers and even
the humble house brick despite its impressively diverse market influence
Monsanto has established a troubling reputation it was described by modern
farmer magazine as the face of corporate evil this is in part due to his
controversial use of GM crops but also largely the result of their ruthless
treatment of competitors in the 90s rumours are most at the company had
produced so-called Terminator seeds designed to sterilize the plots of
anyone who tried to pay to Monsanto seeds gathered from neighboring farms
number two Disney over the years the Walt Disney Company has acquired a few
high-profile media production companies most notably during the purchase of
Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012 both of which cost
over four billion dollars more than half of the highest-grossing movies in the
last decade were owned by the company which shows how tight their grip over
the film world is and while Disney a best known for their billion dollar
grossing movies and the world-famous theme parks the mass media giants reach
doesn't stop there Disney also owns or partly owns loads of
other companies they own TV networks ABC ESPN and even the History Channel with
the media playing an incomparable role when it comes to public sentiment and
knowledge Disney's vast empires makes them one of the most powerful companies
in the world number one alphabet Inc unsurprisingly Google regularly tops
Forbes list of the most valuable brands in the world with the reported revenue
of fifty point six billion dollars in 2016 over 40,000
search queries are made on Google every single second and YouTube has a reach of
well over a billion users almost a third of all people on the insects with it's
algorithms determining what we see online and what information we have
access to the control it exerts over our daily lives is arguably unmatched by any
other company but did you know that Google is actually owned by another
lesser-known company relative new kid on the block alphabet Inc alphabet Inc was
founded in 2015 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin the two founders of Google so in a
nutshell Google has spun off from Google and renamed itself alphabet which now in
school the point of alphabet Inc as a new umbrella company is to separate
Google's core internet businesses from some of its more ambitious diverse
projects so the services we all know and love is part of Google YouTube chrome
Android and Google Maps I'm not going to be put at risk by the company's new
ventures such ventures include research gun the X lab which is developing
driverless cars and the Coleco life extension project so that was 10
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