10 Companies That Secretly Control The World

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 companies that secretly control the world did you know about the full extent of these business superpowers already or did any surprise you let us know in the comments below and if you enjoyed this make sure you check out 10 shocking secrets about Apple as well and give us a like and subscribe while you're at it ten shocking secrets about Apple number 10 Apple secret police Apple has a reputation as one of the most secretive companies in the world but do you know how far the Tetrarch go in order to protect the privacy of its upcoming projects well allow me to introduce the worldwide loyalty team animals very own secret police

Channel: Alltime10s

Views: 2,011,511

Rating: 4.8184891 out of 5

Keywords: Alltime10s, 10s, facts, video, list, top 10, companies, control, secretly, monopoly, power, business, brand, money, nestle, chocolate, candy, kit kat, L'Oreal, Garnier, Maybelline, PepsiCo, Eggo, Oreo, Cadbury, Lockheed Martin, military, Mac, PC, computer, laptop, InBev, alcohol, beer, Pfizer, pharmaceutical, industry, medicine, healthcare, obama care, Pearson, Education, publishing, textbook, bank, finance, ICBC, Monsanto, agriculture, GM Crops, biotechnology, Disney, media, Alphabet, Google, YouTube

Id: FbyNp-5U6pg

Length: 10min 35sec (635 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 23 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

No offense, but can we make any kind of sarcastic comment on here without an /s?