List of multinational corporations

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Before the 1950s, foreign private capital was invested mainly in public services, mining, agriculture, and petroleum. Excluding petroleum, in all other sectors, foreign investment has declined substantially, while increasing dramatically in manufacturing and such related services as banking, marketing, mass media and advertising. The reorientation in the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) represents the reorganization of the international economy and the emergence of a new international division of labour.

A multinational corporation (MNC) or multinational enterprise (MNE) or transnational corporation (TNC) or multinational organization (MNO) is a corporation or enterprise that manages production establishments or delivers services in at least two countries.

The new model of IDL is structured around the large manufacturing TNCs, based upon government contracts - especially in armaments and space exploration. The largest TNCs are mainly in industrialized countries. TNCs develop a) new products; b) new ways of producing these products; c) the machinery and equipment needed to produce them; d) the synthetic raw materials and the intermediate products necessary for their production; e) the advertising needed to create and activate their markets; and f) the subsidiaries, joint ventures or licensing arrangements.Therefore, both the import-substituting and the export-promoting strategies of industrialisation are part of the TNC's strategy of penetration onto foreign and their own domestic markets. So a new form of international division of labour appears - the international manufacturing oligopoly.

ABN-Amro Aditya Birla Accenture Airbus Apple Computer AOL Atari AXA Bacardi Barrick Gold Corporation BASF Bayer Billabong BMW Boeing Bombardier BP Brantano Footwear Cadbury Citigroup Daimler-Chrysler Dell Dutch East India Company EA Ernst & Young Exxon Epson Fiat Fonterra Ford

General Electric General Motors Google Halliburton Hearst Corporation Hewlett Packard Hindustan Computers Limited Hitachi Honda Natwest HSBC Huawei Hutchison Whampoa Limited Infosys Ingersoll Rand Jardine Matheson KPMG Krispy Kreme Kyocera LG Lockheed Martin Maxis Microsoft Monsanto Masterfoods News Corporation Nike, Inc.

Nintendo Nissan Nokia Nortel Networks Parmalat PepsiCo Petronas Pfizer Philips Procter & Gamble Regus Shell Samsung Schlumberger Siemens Sony Square/Square Enix Tata Consultancy Services Toshiba Toyota Vodafone Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wipro Ltd. The Walt Disney Company Videocon Xerox Yahoo!

International economic integration has been the major tendency in IDL development since the past decades.

The most active regional blocs involved in IDL are (Наиболее активные интеграционные объединения, вовлеченные в международное разделение труда, следующие:)