foreign-owned US companies
March 9, 2005 11:31 AM Subscribe
Can anyone give me a website or a reference I can use to find out/get a list of US companies that are actually foreign-owned?
Response by poster: for example, if Holiday inn, K Mart, Pepsi, etc were actually owned my a foreign company. Companies that are thought to be US owned company, but aren't.
posted by Cool Alex at 11:43 AM on March 9, 2005
posted by Cool Alex at 11:43 AM on March 9, 2005
Response by poster: Or maybe the issue is with the abbreviation. By US I mean United States.
posted by Cool Alex at 11:44 AM on March 9, 2005
posted by Cool Alex at 11:44 AM on March 9, 2005
no, i realised after posting that i really didn't have a clue how you decided what nationality a company was, or who owned it. i just looked at pepsico's 2003 annual report, for example, and it has no details that i can see about where shareholders might be. i guess there's some rule about having to declare large shareholders, so presumably you want to know if any company with a strong brand image in the usa has a major shareholder who is a company that... what? is owned by foreigners? i mean, that company too will be owned by shareholders. eventually, i suspect most things are owned by american pension funds. but who owns them? as i said, i'm confused and wish i hadn't posted.
posted by andrew cooke at 11:57 AM on March 9, 2005
posted by andrew cooke at 11:57 AM on March 9, 2005
Response by poster: Well, are there any lists of any foreign owned companies that have a branch or subsidiary in the u.s? Maybe that will be a easier question to get an answer for. I realize that this could be a huge list, but there has to be something. The problem is I think they register by state not nationally.
posted by Cool Alex at 12:09 PM on March 9, 2005
posted by Cool Alex at 12:09 PM on March 9, 2005
You want to get access to Dun & Bradstreet's Who Owns Whom.
D&B - Who Owns Whom is a worldwide company directory file that links a company to its corporate family, showing the size of the corporate structure, family hierarchy, and key information (including DUNS? numbers) on the parent company, headquarters, branches, and subsidiaries worldwide. Corporate family structure information is provided in one easy-to-read online record.posted by pracowity at 12:21 PM on March 9, 2005
Unfortunately there is no easy, cheap way to do it. I use Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and OneSource for work. And neither is 100% accurate, but they will give you the general idea.
Hoovers is another resource that will give you a general idea for larger companies. I believe Yahoo gets their description data from them.
posted by evening at 12:52 PM on March 9, 2005
Hoovers is another resource that will give you a general idea for larger companies. I believe Yahoo gets their description data from them.
posted by evening at 12:52 PM on March 9, 2005
Not sure what you mean by "actually foreign-owned"
Most public companies will have "foreign" (non-US citizen? non-US resident? holding company incorporated outside the US?) ownership, but this is often kept deliberately opaque, especially based on the US stance on taxing worldwide income.
For academic interest, I like TheyRule.
posted by quiet at 4:11 PM on March 9, 2005
Most public companies will have "foreign" (non-US citizen? non-US resident? holding company incorporated outside the US?) ownership, but this is often kept deliberately opaque, especially based on the US stance on taxing worldwide income.
For academic interest, I like TheyRule.
posted by quiet at 4:11 PM on March 9, 2005
I would think that all publically traded companies will have some degree of foreign ownership. Whoever buys a share is an owner.
A coworker of mine was religious about buying things made in America and he relied on websites like this and this.
posted by NortonDC at 5:58 PM on March 9, 2005
A coworker of mine was religious about buying things made in America and he relied on websites like this and this.
posted by NortonDC at 5:58 PM on March 9, 2005
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posted by andrew cooke at 11:39 AM on March 9, 2005