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For large-scale companies, especially in Britain and the USA, investor ownership dominates the scene. Thus the important public limited companies are generally investor-owned, with their shares traded on stock exchanges. They attract the most attention due to their size and impact on the economy, as well as the requirement to publish regular financial reports and to inform the markets.

A number of such companies are multinational, emanating originally from European countries with large foreign interests which led the way with their investments overseas in railway and mining companies, trading companies and banks, and all kinds of consumer-goods firms. The Japanese and above all the Americans followed with companies like Mitsui, Ford, Quaker Oats and Coca-Cola already established internationally by 1914, followed by IBM, Kellogg, Heinz, Procter & Gamble, and more recently Wal-Mart and Microsoft.