Linc Energy Ltd

Linc Energy is the leader in its field, using Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology to create a Coal-to-Liquids company to produce cleaner energy solutions for Australia and throughout the world. UCG uses deep underground coal, completely unsuitable for conventional mining. …

Times of India

The Times of India remains the single most-read English language broadsheet in the world, and the eighth largest selling newspaper. Printed throughout the nation, the newspaper enjoys a circulation of over three million on a daily basis. As similar media …

Storebrand

Dating back to 1767, Storebrand is one of the oldest established financial institutions in Northern Europe. Although primarily working throughout Norway (with headquarters in Oslo) the firm also does quite a lot of work in Sweden following the purchase of …

Ivan Fecan

A real industry leader who earned his stripes coming up through the ranks over a long and prestigious career. Beginning his working life as a producer, Fecan moved on to become station manager, development executive, and vice president of creative …

Fujio Mitarai

Unlike many of the current generation of businesspeople, Mitarai has remained with a single firm for nearly a half century. Joining Canon in the early sixties, 1979 saw him become president of the firm’s US network, and throughout the eighties …

Vivendi

Originally a water company which was formed by Imperial decree under Napoleon’s presidency in the nineteenth century, the company has expanded and transformed over the years, and is currently represented in several different industries and markets. Headquartered in Paris, the …

Hills Advertising LLC

With a team experienced in outdoor advertising, engineering and marketing, Hills Advertising has accomplished much in the Middle East. From concept to completion, Hills delivers choices and support, allowing advertisers to deliver messages with maximum impact. From traditional poster formats …

T. Garanti Bankası A.S

Jointly owned by Dogus Holding and GE Capital, Garanti is Turkey’s second-largest private bank with assets exceeding $76bn in 3Q 09. Garanti has customers in corporate, commercial, SME, and retail segments, and offers integrated financial services with the help of …

Finansbank A.S.

The fifth largest private  Turkish bank in terms of assets, Finansbank has been constantly plotting an upward curve on its growth chart since 1987 when it was founded. It’s a major league player today with its 461 branches and more than …

Puncak Niaga Holdings Berhad

Best known by its Puncak Niaga brand name, Puncak Niaga Holdings Berhad is the one-stop engineering, technology and R&D solution centre for water, wastewater, environment, construction and property development, that offers a strategic and smart-partnership approach to potential partners. With …

Banco Espírito Santo Portugal

Espírito Santo Investment, headquartered in Lisbon, is the investment banking arm of Banco Espírito Santo, the largest listed private bank by market cap and the second largest financial group in Portugal. Being part of a 140-year-old group, Espírito Santo Investment …

Investment Promotion Agency of Kosovo

The Investment Promotion Agency of Kosovo’s mission is to bring investment projects into Kosovo and support the expansion of the existing base of overseas companies in the country. In its promotional message it emphasises the major attractions and business opportunities, …

Data Room Services/ DRS Digital

DRS is a transaction services provider specialising in highly secure, fast and reliable virtual data rooms (VDRs). These data rooms can be used for a variety of purposes, mainly because the services can be customised to each customer’s specific needs. …

Law firm Hanžekovic, Radakovic & Partners

As one of the largest law firms in Croatia, the law firm Hanžekovic, Radakovic & Partners offers comprehensive legal assistance to domestic and foreign enterprises, financial institutions and private clients. With almost 50 lawyers and over 30 years of experience, …

NG2

In a search for the companies showing resilience to economic slowdown one can easy point out NG2. The footwear market leader in Poland sees nothing but possibilities in tough market conditions. NG2 expands rapidly, taking the opportunity to open new …

UT Financial Services

The financial services industry in Ghana was for a long time dominated by a Western brand of banking practices and procedures which could not meet the needs of SMEs as a result of the cumbersome processes which often run counter …

Dietmar Hopp

Establishing SAP in the early 1970s with four other former IBM engineers, Hopp has made a great dent in the market under the software development and consultancy umbrella. SAP is noted for its wide-spanning product range and its continued and …

Paul S. Otellini

President and CEO of Intel, Otellini has worked for the title since joining the company in 1974. He is also a director at Google and Autodesk. Having worked in several different branches of the firm, Otellini is well-versed in the …

Nancy McKinstry

McKinstry’s CV speaks for itself: CEO and Chairman of the executive board of Wolters Kluwer; member of the board of directors at Ericsson; member of the American Chamber of Commerce, Netherlands; member of the Advisory Council of the Amsterdam Institute …

Anil Agarwal

Chairman and founder of one of India’s largest mining firms, Agarwal boasts huge personal wealth and has acted as a strong shepherd for his firm, managing to sustain an uncompromising market retinue. Agarwal owns just over 50 percent of Vedanta, …

Chen Guangbiao

A rags to riches story of genuine philanthropic success from humble origins. Guangbiao’s first sign of business acumen surfaced when he carried water and frozen foods from village to village in a bid to pay for an education. By 19, …

Guler Sabanci

Turkey’s economy has been wavering on the brink of a full-blown depression for quite some time, with many companies going under, trampled under the colossal weight of a mostly credit-free market. Guler Sabanci, however, has taken huge gambles, performing potentially …

Suning Appliance

An inspiration for any start-up or entrepreneur: in 1990 Suning was a single unit air conditioner shop, today it is a retail giant with over six hundred stores throughout China. In a fiercely competitive market which has recently had a …

Gail Kelly

The first female CEO in Australian banking history has followed an interesting path to her prestigious position at the head of one of the nation’s foremost financial institutions. Starting out as a Latin teacher in South Africa, Kelly’s business acumen …

Eletrobrás

The biggest company within the electric power sector in Latin America, Eletrobrás (Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A.) is the leader of a system consisting of six subsidiary companies, six distribution companies, the Electric Power Research Centre (Cepel) and Eletrobrás Participações S.A. …

Sofinnova Partners

With an extremely niche attitude toward investment, Sofinnova invests in start-ups, subsidiaries looking to build somewhat independently, and other companies that it recognises have great potential. The main focus of its work is Europe, and it is known to throw …

Hassan Tatanaki

Hassan Tatanaki is currently the chairman of the board of directors of Challenger Ltd. Since 1991, when the Tatanaki family took over operations, his efforts have led to expansion throughout the Middle East and Africa. His philanthropic efforts have been …

Abu Dhabi Investment House

ADIH is a fast-growing boutique investment house with a unique business model. Over the past five years, ADIH has established itself as a leading firm within the region through a notable track record, strong results and unique investment initiatives – …

Brian Stuart-Young (GBC)

Brian Stuart-Young undertook the management buyout and rebranding of the Global Bank of Commerce (GBC) in 2002, and implemented his vision to transform the Caribbean institution into a global provider of international financial services. As Chairman and CEO he successfully …

OCBC

As one of Singapore’s largest local banks, OCBC is also an international player, with a branch network that spans across the globe. The bank provides innovative financial services and products to both business and private clients. OCBC came about as …

UPM-Kymmene Oyj

UPM is a frontrunner in the new biofore industry (a combination of biological and forest sectors), which has arisen and grown exponentially as a result of changing attitudes toward climate change and recent government proposals to provide reforestation techniques and …

Salvatore Ferragamo Italia

Innovative to its core, the Italian luxury goods firm has seemingly always done their utmost to supply this niche market with eclectic and superior products on a regular basis shaping the fashion industry. Constructing an image to promote its standards, …

Mkono & Co Advocates

Founded in 1977 by Nimrod Mkono, the firm has developed into a prominent corporate, commercial and financial practice. The firm has a mixture of common and civil law practitioners, which has been key to their effectiveness. Mkono houses almost twenty …

Espírito Santo

BESA’s activity takes place directly in the local market and relies on providing a global service to both its retail and corporate customers. In 2008, BESA consolidated its positioning as a prestigious universal bank in the Angolan market, emphasising this …

SEI Investments

Founded in 1968, SEI has long served client bases throughout the US, Canada, the UK, continental Europe, parts of Africa and much of Asia. It offers services to both private and corporate clients such as: investment management programmes to banks …

Atradius Credit Insurance N.V.

From its very modest origins established more than 80 years ago, the organisation that is now known as the Atradius Group has matured into one of the world’s leading credit insurers, with a 31 percent share of the global credit …

Afschrift

With offices in Brussels, Geneva, Luxembourg and Madrid, Afschrift concentrates on tax and white collar crime law. The team are recognised for their creativity in international tax planning. They are active in litigation, defending clients during tax controls and before …

Banco BAI

BAI is a dynamic bank utilising up-to-date technology. It has a personalised approach, working to become an essential partner. BAI is engaged in providing an attentive service to individual customers and offering solutions to SMEs. With 66 branches in Angola, …

Alpari (UK)

The Alpari Group is one of the world’s fastest-growing online Forex brokers. Andrey Vedikhin, CEO, co-founded the company in Moscow in 1998. Just eleven years later, the group has 27 offices, serving more than 160,000 active clients across 150 countries. …

Desarrolladora Homex, S.A.B. de C.V.

Desarrolladora Homex is Mexico’s largest vertically integrated homebuilder, focusing on the affordable entry-level housing market. Operating in 34 cities and 21 states, the company has a leading position in the top four markets in Mexico. In the past few years, …

Wadhawan Holdings Pvt Ltd

In 2006, Kapil Wadhawan & his brother Dheeraj diversified from the family business of real estate and mortgage finance with their belief in the Indian consumption story. The organisation was built with business leadership talent and was made the custodian …

Arias & Muñoz

Arias & Muñoz is unique in Central America, for it operates as a single firm rather than as an alliance of firms and currently has seven fully integrated offices across five different countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa …

Petrobras

Petrobras is a publicly traded joint stock corporation that has integrated operations segments of the oil, natural gas and energy industry: exploration and production; downstream; trade; transportation and petrochemicals; distribution; and biofuels. Established in 1953, it is the world’s ninth …

Citadel Group

Traditionally spreading capital across different opportunities by utilising expert judgement, the name has become known to most markets throughout the world. By placing capital in options and equities, the firm’s representatives have discovered and perfected the importance of timing investments. …

Consus

Consus is a commodity stock market icon and a European leader in buying and selling EUAs and other emission units. As a member of the BlueNext exchange in Paris and the European Energy Exchange (EEX) in Leipzig, Consus SA was …

Karanjawala

Founded in 1983 under the aegis of Mr RN Karanjawala and Mrs Manik Karanjawala, Karanjawala & Co. is a leading firm of litigators, based in New Delhi, specialising in the field of dispute resolution encompassing both litigation as well as …

Pictet

At the end of June 2009, Switzerland’s largest private bank announced mammoth assets around the $321bn mark. Aside from private banking, Pictet also delves into asset management, fund administration, investor services, and services for independent asset managers. With a long …

3i

Focusing its attention on buyouts, infrastructure and capital growth, 3i mainly deals with company and clients based in Europe and Asia. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1995 and has undergone something of a torrid time …

Kone

A name anyone who has been in a building with more than two floors will most likely recognise. As the world’s fourth largest manufacturer of elevators, Kone has built up the name over a reputation as a sound and suitable …

Singapore Telecom

SingTel enjoy success across twenty different countries throughout the world, although their cornerstone markets are Australia and Singapore. At the end of 2008 the firm declared its intentions by purchasing Singapore Computer Systems (SCS). Diverse and competitive, the company offers …

Iberdrola

With a heritage that spans more than a century, Spain’s largest energy provider and the world’s leading renewable energy company has placed itself in line for a long and prosperous future. Iberdrola has focused mainly on wind power but recently …

China Mobile

With the world’s largest coverage across a single region, China Mobile spans right across all thirty-one provinces of the company’s home nation. Looking abroad, the firm has expanded into Pakistan, when in 2007 it bought up Paktel and launched the …

Lirim Muharemi

Lirim Muharemi, the founder of Kapital Invest wanted to help Albania, the Balkans and Europe, by opening up underdeveloped Balkan nations to foreign investment. Albania has the shortest route to the Balkans and most of Europe, with its project “Eagle …

Crédit Agricole

Crédit Agricole is a France-based banking organisation with 28 percent of households and is present across the entire spectrum of finance activities. It serves 58 million individual customers worldwide with a network of 11,850 branches in more than 20 countries. …

Infosys Technologies

Although a distinct market leader, Infosys has identified five key ideals ensuring something of a makeover as it steps into the forthcoming decade: transformational deals, large outsourcing deals, new engagement models, execution and talent management. These strategies, the firm’s management …

Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts

Specialising in large scale buyouts, KKR has been a big-hitter within the industry for over twenty years. With estimated total assets of around $60bn, the firm has completed a large scale investment in all but two years of its existence. …

Posco

Although not the most easily recognisable name on this list, POSCO’s market influence is strong and long-lasting. Operating from Poheng, Korea, the organisation is reported to be the second largest steel maker by market value throughout the world. That, whilst …

Fairfax Financial

Through it’s subsidiaries, Fairfax has established a name as a leading entity throughout the insurance industry in many nations. Dealing primarily in property and casualty insurance, reinsurance, and investment management, the firm has experienced and recognised experts working right across …

Novo Nordisk

With B shares listed in both London and Copenhagen, Novo Nordisk fulfils a niche market requirement in the development and exploration of mainly diabetes products and care, although the company does venture into different sectors. Winning many awards for its …

Goodrich Corporation

A company that has time and again proved itself to merit a place on the frontline of innovation, Goodrich’s longstanding traditional set-up is a proven vindicator of alternative business models. Although sticking to its roots, in recent times the firm …

Sembcorp Industries

Incorporated in 1998, and listed on the Singapore Exchange, Sembcorp Industries has become well known within the industry for those who wish to rely on a wide range of services from planning to implementation to maintenance of all things utilities …

ABB Group

ABB’s product and service range is a time honoured yet constantly diversifying amalgamation of direct source management and research across markets. The firm offer power products, systems, and automation products ahead of many other providers and so lead the way …

Sumitomo Mitsui

Sumitomo’s transparency over the course of its history has enabled it to build up a reputation as one of the most trustworthy and dependable financial institutions, not only in the East, but throughout the world. Beginning life as a money …

Enel

Formerly a state owned organisation, Enel is now partly owned by Italian banking firm Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. Although ownership has been known to float somewhat, the company has continued to diversify throughout many different markets and sustain the need …

Merck

Founded in 1668, Merck is one of the oldest established chemical and pharmaceutical organisations in the world. The company’s specific remit is to address and develop unmet medical problems and issues that inevitably arise from generation to generation. Its presence …

Lockheed Martin

The result of the 1995 merger between the Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta, the company was one of many who, as many analysts suggested, should have suffered if not folded during the darkest days of the credit crisis. Utilising extensive …

Roche

A solid market developer, Roche has continually reinvented itself and the world of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics since its creation in 1896. The brand became a household name when it became the first to mass produce a synthetically formulated vitamin (vitamin …

UPS

A recognised brand around the world, UPS has just entered its second century. Logistically speaking it has been recognised time and again for its ability to meet high standards of customer satisfaction in an increasingly competitive industry. Operating in over …

Fluor Enterprises

An organisation that has taken the twenty-first century by the horns in terms of market development and progress. After attracting much global attention following an award win in The New Economy magazine (Best Clean Energy Company, 2009), the company has …

Charles Schwab Corporation

A real old fashioned brick and mortar establishment. With over seven and a half million private and institutional clients worldwide, the firm’s assets currently sat at a reported $1.22trn at the end of 2008. With such wealth at its desposal, …

AC Markets

A real success story in finding and fulfilling a corner of a market not yet saturated. Although a relatively young organisation (founded in 2002), the online forex trader has diversified since its inception, utilising the standard web business model and …

Bharti Enterprises

Publicly listed on the BSE, Bharti has many interests, including telecommunications, retail, and insurance as part of a vast and expanding empire which is currently worth a reported $6bn. The conglomeration has been set up in such a way that …

Lenovo Group

Relatively unknown to Western markets, Lenovo provides technology solutions to around a third of the Chinese market, and a significant percentage of many other Asian countries. A reported sales revenue at the end of the 2008 fiscal year of $14.9bn …

Banco do Brasil

South America’s largest lender began life in 1808, as the Portuguese regent Dom John fled to Brazil under threat from the Napoleonic invasion. Since those somewhat salubrious beginnings, the bank has survived several market collapses, coming through unscathed to develop …

Lazard

Providing many services within capital strategies, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and asset management, Lazard is currently one of the largest and most productive investment banks in the world. Serving mainly high net individuals, institutions, partnerships, and corporations, the bank is …

ING Direct

Owned by ING Group – the worldwide financial syndicate with head offices in the Netherlands where it was formed – ING Direct has set a precedent for the banking industry. Servicing clients in a large number of regions such as …

ANZ

Although the number four bank in terms of size in Australia, ANZ extends across twenty-five other nations throughout Asia and the South Pacific region. It is also listed as the number one bank in New Zealand. Heralded recently as one …

Royal Bank of Canada

The Merchant’s Bank of Halifax, formed in 1864 as a small financial institution, later rebranded to Royal Bank of Canada and soon became Canada’s largest bank. Over time it has prospered, ultimately becoming a globally recognised outfit. The bank has …

Ditlev Engel

CEO of Vestas Wind Systems, Engel has played no small part in the transformation not just of European energy markets, but in the general perception of how the world thinks about the future of energy production. Providing a large proportion …

Cisco Systems

Operating from San Francisco, this design and implementation technology firm has created a global network of business strategies, accumulating in a reported revenue for 2009 of $36.1bn. In June the firm joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing General Motors …

GlaxoSmithKline

Formed through the merger of GlaxoWellcome and SmithKline Beecham in 2000, this market giant specialises in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and biological development. Since then, the fusion of the two smaller companies has benefited GSK in more than one way, specifically through …

Zurich Financial Services

Formed in 1872 originally as a subsidiary for Versicherung Verein, Zurich started life building up accounts writing maritime insurance. Soon after moving out of this category and into main line insurance, the company soonw found profits moving skyward. Since then …

Grupo Ferrovial

Noted for their exceptional design and architectural achievements, Ferrovial is considered amongst the largest DBFO outfits in Europe. As a publicly traded company, it is noted for its recognisable infrastructure projects and unique implementation structures. While maintaining a large segment …

Sabic

Seventy percent owned by the Saudi government; the remaining 30 percent spread between different countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), SABIC has many different interests at heart. Notable is the company’s attempts – successful over recent years – to …

AXA

Many still find it difficult to believe that the AXA Group didn’t exist in 1980 – such has been the monumental growth of this insurance leviathan. Although working in many different sectors – including financial planning, the group is known …

Gruma

Gruma is the world’s leading tortilla and corn flour producer. Established in 1949, Gruma is engaged primarily in the production, marketing, distribution, and sale of tortillas, corn flour, wheat flour, offering value-added products such as wraps, pitta, naan, piadina and …

Assicurazioni Generali

As one of the oldest financial establishments in Europe, the large Italian insurance powerhouse has grown in importance and market share since 1831. Steeped in history, the firm is also well known for being one-time employees of Franz Kafka. Although …

JR East

Following initial privatisation in 1987, JR East remained wholly owned by government subsidiary JNR Settlement Corporation until 2002. It has since developed into the largest and most efficient passenger railway company in the world. Although running on a comparatively small …

Rio Tinto

The multinational dual-listed outfit has this year been ranked as the fourth largest listed mining company in the world, according to a market capitalisation of approximately $34bn. Despite minor setbacks (after purchasing Canadian aluminium company Alcan) the firm is set …

Mike Duke

The President and CEO of Wal-Mart made swift strides to the top. Joining the company in 1995 in the logistics division Duke’s talents were recognised early in his ability to form long and lasting relationships with partners, and he has …

Jamie Dimon

Never afraid to take on the big decisions. At a time when banking seemed millimetres from the precipice, Dimon was taking giant leaps: a last minute acquisition of Bear Stearns, purchasing assets of Washington Mutual and pulling them out of …

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Every year, millions of aspiring entrepreneurs try and fail to fulfil the ultimate dream of creating something that will take the world by storm and generate sky-high revenues. In creating Facebook, Zuckerberg created a household name. In 2008, Facebook’s revenue …

Josef Ackermann

Sitting on the board at Deutsche bank since 2002, Ackermann was promoted to CEO just four years later. Although the sector has taken something of a pummelling since his inauguration, the Swiss banker has steadied the ship for his firm, …

ExxonMobil

A child of JD Rockefeller’s Standard Oil through the merger of Exxon and Mobil in 1999, ExxonMobil’s array of big name personnel has brought it to the fore of its market. Headed up by Rex Tillerson (who rose through the …

MetLife

As far as insurance goes, there are those who follow the market, and those who make the market. MetLife has continually, over a period of nearly a century and a half, determined and shaped the industry around it, delivering excellent …

Bayer

Bayer’s brand is synonymous with its original brand of aspirin, but has stepped into many other facilities, drug/clinic services and products, attaining ranking within many different categories as the fourth largest pharmaceutical company in the world. As such Bayer has …

Google

When Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin first launched Google in 1998 few analysts predicted the tidal wave effect it would have, or its lasting effect on the way we do business today still. Many accredit the firm with kicking off …

Apple

Little introduction needs to be made of a company that has stormed to the forefront of one of the most challenging and changing markets there is. Following the tech boom, many predicted that money would be sapped from the industry …

Euronext

Part of the NYSE Group, Euronext’s position as the fifth largest exchange on the planet was confirmed over recent months due to the large number of trades going through the Paris based outfit. Mainly working within equities and derivatives markets, …

Sinopharm Group

A top performer in the pharmaceuticals market, Sinopharm’s growth and popularity have taken the company to the forefront of research and development over the past decade. 2007 saw the firm announce revenue of over 25bn yuan. Aside from its developmental …