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Allianz Corporate Office

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America

Allianz is a German multinational financial services company with worldwide headquarters in Munich.

Allianz was founded in 1890 by Carl von Thieme and Wilhelm von Fink as a marine and accident insurance company.

In 1900 Allianz became the first insurer to obtain a license to distribute corporate policies. By 1914 the company had expanded to the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, France, the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic States and the United States.

History

Allianz began to offer fire insurance in 1905, machinery breakdown policies in 1911, and automobile insurance in 1918.

After World War II Allianz headquarters was moved to Munich because the original headquarters was destroyed during the war.

From the 1970’s to the 1990’s Allianz strengthened their position in Europe while expanding into new markets, such as Spain, The U.K., and Hungary.

Today Allianz operates in over 70 countries, has 180,000 employees, and has over 76 million customers worldwide. Allianz services include property and casualty insurance, life and health insurance, and asset management.

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AXA Corporate Office

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company

AXA S.A. is a French global investment, retirement, and insurance group with worldwide headquarters in Paris, France.

AXA was founded in 1816 as Mutuelle de L’assurance contre L’incendie. When it acquired Compagnie Parisienne de Garantie in 1978 the name was changed to Mutuelles Unies.

The name AXA was finally adopted in 1999. Despite being in upper case, the name is not an acronym; it was chosen because it is easily pronounced by people who speak any language. This was important to the global company and its international presence.

History

AXA operates primarily in Western Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific region, and the Middle East.

AXA has five operating segments: Life & Savings, Property & Casualty, International Insurance, Asset Management, and Other Financial Services. It has over 100,000 employees worldwide and had $118 billion in revenue in 2011.

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Volkswagen Corporate Office

Volkswagen Group of North America

Volkswagen is a German car company with worldwide headquarters in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Volkswagen was founded in 1937 by the Nazi trade union, the German Labour Front. At this time, cars were a luxury item in Germany, with only about 1 person in 50 owning a car. The new company had the goal to make cars smaller and more affordable for the average German.

History

After the war, Volkswagen became an important piece, both economically and symbolically, of West German regeneration.

Volkswagen entered the U.S. market in 1949 with the VW being briefly sold as the Victory Wagon. Volkswagen of America was formed in 1955.

Volkswagen struggled to expand its product line and finally came out with a hit in the U.S. market with the 1974 release of the Golf.

By 1997 Volkswagen was producing the Jetta, New Beetle, SEAT Toledo, SEAT Leon, Audi A3, Audi TT, Skoda Octavia, Polo, Passat, and Corrado models.

Today Volkswagen has three of the ten top-selling cars worldwide: the Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Beetle, and the Volkswagen Passat. The company is a world leader in R&D.

In 2015, the US Environmental Protection Agency stated that VW had been installing incorrect or altered ECUs in 2009-2015 diesel-fueled cars to bypass emissions testing. On 11 January 2017, Volkswagen agreed to plead guilty to the emissions-cheating scandal and to pay $4.3 billion in penalties.

On 23 January 2017, a US judge approved a $1.2 billion settlement in which 650 American dealers, “who, like consumers, were blindsided by the brazen fraud that VW perpetrated,” would receive an average of $1.85 million.

The company is trying to put its past mistakes behind them with new ads featuring electric vehicles in 2019.

Volkswagen Group is the parent company to 12 vehicle manufacturers with operations in 153 countries. It designs, manufactures, and distributes passenger and commercial vehicles, engines, motorcycles, and turbo machinery. It is ninth on the Fortune Global 500.

Volkswagen Group has 549,763 employees, 44.8% in Germany and the rest spread all over the world. This number includes Chinese joint ventures. Volkswagen Group had $140 billion in revenue in 2012.

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Toyota Corporate Office

Toyota Motor Corporation

Toyota is a Japanese automaker with worldwide headquarters in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

History

Kiichiro Toyoda started the company in 1937 as a spin-off of his father’s company, Toyota Industries. It was previously a division of the same company beginning in 1933. Toyoda means fertile rice paddies in Japanese, so the company name was changed slightly so as not to be associated with farming.

Kiichiro traveled to Europe and the US in 1929/1930 and became fascinated with the cars and engines he saw. The Japanese government, in need of cars and engines, encouraged Kiichiro to develop and build cars. The first models looked similar to the cars he saw on this travels.

In June of 1950, the company made only 300 vehicles and was on the verge of going bankrupt. A small bank loan, however, along with bank instructions that the company not hire any more workers than necessary took the company out of the red.

Toyota entered the American market in 1957. In the 1960’s the U.S. began to put high tariffs on imported vehicles. In response, Toyota began to manufacture vehicles in the U.S. in the early 1980’s.

In response to the 1973 oil crisis, consumers began to demand smaller cars with better fuel efficiency.

In the 1990’s Toyota began to branch out from this restriction to produce larger and more luxurious vehicles, including several lines of SUVs. Toyota began to produce the world’s first hybrid car, the Prius, in 1997.

In 2014, the company unveiled what many people consider to be one of the strangest looking “cars” ever made, the Toyota I Road. This electric three wheeled, two passenger vehicle which looks more like an enclosed motorcycle, other than the steering wheel. With a top speed of 30MPH, this city friendly car can go about 31 miles on a single charge, and it recharges in 3 hours. Company spokespersons say that they are working on improving the speed and range of the vehicle and hope to have it for sale in 2019.

Today Toyota is the world’s largest automobile manufacturer by production and the world’s thirteenth largest company. The company has over 350,000 employees worldwide and had $228.48 trillion in revenue in 2016.

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Capital One Corporate Office

The Capital One Financial Corporation

The Capital One Financial Corporation was founded in 1988 by Richard Fairbank and Nigel Morris as a spin-off of Signet Banking Corp. named Oakstone Financial Corporation.

The spin-off was renamed Capital One Financial Corporation in 1995, the same year it went public on the NYSE. This new company ranked in the top ten of credit card issuers in the country with 5 million customers.

History

In 2000 Capital One became a member of the Fortune 500.

Capital One entered the retail banking market through its acquisition of Hibernia National Bank in 2005 and North Fork Bancorporation in 2006.

Capital One acquired Chevy Chase Bank in 2008 for $520 million.

In 2018, Capital One was hit with a 9 figure fine its failure to adhere to a series of anti-money laundering guidelines established in a 2015 order by The Office of the Controller of the Currency.

The Trump administration and family members sued Capital One and Deutsche Bank on April 30, 2019, in an attempt to prevent them from releasing their personal and business financial information to Democratic committee members.

The company was hit by a massive data breach in July 2019 after a Seattle hacker obtained the social security numbers and other information of approximately 130,000 customers.

Today Capital One is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, home loans, auto loans, banking, and savings products. The company is a member of the S&P 500 and Fortune 500. Capital One has 50,400 employees worldwide and had $21.396 billion in revenue in 2012.

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