Portal:Companies

Wikipedia portals: Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Main   Company index by industry Welcome to Wikipedia's companies portal, which seeks to analyse companies by country and industry. Contents: Associated Wikimedia • Categorical index • Did you know? • Index by industry • List of good and featured articles • Related portals • Selected article • Selected picture • Selected ranking • Things you can do edit   Selected company Odwalla Inc. is a health food company founded in Santa Cruz, California in 1980 that sells fruit juice and food bars. Odwalla, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, is headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California, with a production facility in Dinuba, California. The name "Odwalla" was taken from that of a character in the song "Illistrum" written by the Art Ensemble of Chicago jazz group as a metaphor for the company. The company experienced strong growth from its incorporation in 1985, expanding its distribution network from California to most of North America, and went public in 1993. However, a period of decline occurred as a result of a fatal outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in 1996 caused by contamination of its apple juice. Odwalla recalled its juices and experienced a ninety-percent reduction in sales following the event. The company gradually recovered, and, after a few years, was making a profit again. Odwalla was acquired by the Coca-Cola Company in 2001 for $181 million. Odwalla's range of products includes juices, smoothies, dairy-free soy milk, and similar organic beverages, as well as several flavors of energy bars, known as food bars, and bottled spring water. While Odwalla originally sold unpasteurized juices (because the process of pasteurization alters the flavor of juice), following the E. coli outbreak, Odwalla adopted flash pasteurization and other industry-standard safety procedures. edit   Selected picture Credit: Matt Britt The Intel 80486DX2 is a CPU produced by Intel Corporation that was introduced in 1992. Intel is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Founded on July 18, 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in Santa Clara, California, USA, Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network cards and ICs, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, and other devices related to communications and computing. edit   Did you know ... From Wikipedia's newest articles: ... that the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film? ... that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops? ... that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history? ... that Aso Mining Company, which belongs to former Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II? ... that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production? ... that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media's films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards? edit   Selected top 10 ranking Largest market capitalization in Q4 2010 1   Exxon Mobil 2   PetroChina 3   Apple Inc. 4   BHP Billiton 5   Microsoft 6   Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 7   Petrobras 8   China Construction Bank 9   Royal Dutch Shell 10   Nestlé More lists and rankings... edit   Good and featured articles Featured articles BAE Systems · Elderly Instruments · Holden · Icos · Microsoft · NeXT · Odwalla · Oliver Typewriter Company · Scene7 (category...) Featured lists Lists of company acquisitions: Adobe Systems · AOL · Apple · Cisco Systems · Condé Nast · eBay · Electronic Arts · Google · Juniper Networks · Microsoft · Red Hat · Symantec · Yahoo! (category...) A-Class articles Blue Network (category...) Good articles Abir Congo Company · Apollo Management · Arkia Israel Airlines · Blackstone Group · Boosey & Hawkes · Bovet Fleurier · British Airways · Burger King legal issues · Cargolink · Chemetco · Chipotle Mexican Grill · Chuck E. Cheese's · Color Air · Crazy Eddie · Dragonair · Facebook · Flytoget · Grameen Bank · Great Southern Group · Gulf Oil · Harley Davidson · Hershey Creamery Company · History of British Airways · Hochtief · Holt Manufacturing Company · Innherredsferja · International Speedway Corporation · Jay Cooke & Company · Key · Kohlberg Kravis Roberts · Marine Harvest · Mr. Lady Records · Mzoli's · NSB Gjøvikbanen · National Westminster Bank · Nokian Tyres · Ofotbanen · Pearson's Candy Company · Pixar · Poundland · Slackers CDs and Games · Sony/ATV Music Publishing · Steorn · TouchWave · Transit Authority of River City · Twitter · Union Stock Yards · Vildanden · Wizards of the Coast (category...) edit   Things you can do Here are some tasks you can do: Article requests: see Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Businesses and organizations Assess: Rio Tinto Group, Stave Puzzles, Huawei, Category:Unassessed Companies articles Cleanup: Organizational_retaliatory_behavior - Should probably be merged to Whistle blower Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company PbNation-This article is currently in the format of a forum, however it is more notable as a company(if it is notable at all) than a forum. Essar Group - needs proper introduction section, headers, and better flow Copyedit: work on Category:Companies articles needing attention Expand: Cameco, Japan Steel Works, Mrs. Fields, BW Gas, BAE Systems Information Technology, IndyMac Bank (in the news as of July 11), AIG Infobox: work on Category:Companies articles needing infoboxes Maintain: Portal:Companies NPOV: Alabama Cooperative Extension System, written almost entirely by a news and public affairs employee at ACES, so needs some neutral eyes to give it a going over to check for both neutrality, and layout/content inclusion, etc. Stubs: Category:Company stubs Wikify: Barry Callebaut, AED Oil Limited, IOCOM Other: Tag the pages of any company articles with the {{portal|Companies}} template Tag the talk pages of any company articles with the {{WikiProject Companies}} project banner Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them if they would like to join our efforts Contribute to discussions on project guidelines and lists Identify articles for improvement and list here edit   Related WikiProjects Accountancy · Business · Companies · Cooperatives · Deletion sorting · Economics · Finance · Game theory · International development · Investment · Numismatics · Private Equity · Retailing · Shopping Centers · Taxation · Trade edit   Related portals Business and economics Capitalism Cooperatives Energy Law Numismatics Society edit   Associated Wikimedia What are portals? · List of portals · Featured portals