* Atlas Press ( tool company ) of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the largest supplier of machine tools to the hobbyist market in the middle of the 20th century

Interview Island ( the largest wildlife sanctuary in the territory ) in Middle Andaman holds a population of feral elephants, which were brought in for forest work by a timber company and released when the company went bankrupt.

By the 1890s, the company was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world.

* 1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.

InBev was the second-largest beer-producing company in the world and Anheuser-Busch held the third spot, but after the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch by InBev, the new Anheuser-Busch InBev company is currently the largest brewer in the world.

In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

Freed for a US $ 60 million ransom ( the largest on record at that time ), the ordeal triggered the company headquarters ' relocation to São Paolo, Brazil, and contributed to the March 1976 coup.

In 2008 Anheuser-Busch sold the majority of their stock to Belgian-Brazilian beer giant InBev, to create the largest brewing company in the world.

Bacardi Limited ( ; ; ) is the largest privately-held, family-owned spirits company in the world.

The logo of Bell Canada, the nation's largest telephone company.

The state-owned firm CODELCO is the world's largest copper-producing company, with recorded copper reserves of 200 years.

Dutko's and its strategic partner AMI Communications ( PR company owned by ODS members ) customers are Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Nortrop Grumman, which are largest contractors for NMD development.

It was announced in February 2011 that the company name would revert to Meritor, Inc. Cummins, Inc. is by far the region's largest employer, and the Infotech Park accounts for a sizable number of research jobs in Columbus proper.

Ltd., a subsidiary of the Germany-based company Cognis, is also producing β-carotene from microalgae grown in two sites in Australia that are the world ’ s largest algae farms.

* Pepsi is produced by AmBev ( a Brazilian company owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev ), the largest bottler of Pepsi Cola outside the United States.

The VAX was a best-seller, with over 400, 000 sold, and its sales through the 1980s propelled the company into the second largest in the industry.

The company was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry.

Katanga Mining Limited, a London-based company, owns the Luilu Metallurgical Plant, which has a capacity of 175, 000 tonnes of copper and 8, 000 tonnes of cobalt per year, making it the largest cobalt refinery in the world.

The use of a foreign company for the extraction of gold at the largest mine in the Western Hemisphere has startled and concerned many Dominican's who believe that this gold is Dominican gold and should be extracted by Dominican companies and not foreign.

* Central Romana Port, located in La Romana, belong to Central Romana Corporation which is a private company established in 1911 and has the largest sugar mill in the country.

The company quickly grew into the largest industrial site in the Middle East, and in 1934 built a second plant on the southwest shore, in the Mount Sodom area, south of the ' Lashon ' region of the Dead Sea.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

The largest islands are, from North to South, Chichagof Island, Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, Kupreanof Island, Revillagigedo Island and Prince of Wales Island.

The British Virgin Islands comprise around sixty tropical Caribbean islands, ranging in size from the largest, Tortola long and wide, to tiny uninhabited islets.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

The islands are overwhelmingly Christian ( 84 %) with the largest individual Christian denominations being Methodist ( 23 %), Anglican ( 12 %), Church of God ( 11 %) and Catholic ( 9 %).

An inlet from the Pacific the Gulf of Nicoya contains several small islands, the largest of these being Chira Island with a population of around four thousand.

The largest Croatian passenger port is Split in Dalmatia, also called gateway to the islands, followed by Zadar.

Cyprus is third largest island in the Mediterranean ( after the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia ) and the world's 81st largest.

Crete ( ; ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.

Popular tourist attractions include the archaeological sites of the Minoan civilisation, the Venetian old city and port of Chania, the Venetian castle at Rethymno, the gorge of Samaria, the islands of Chrysi, Elafonisi, Gramvousa, and Spinalonga and the Palm Beach of Vai, which is the largest natural palm forest in Europe.

Denmark's general coastline is much shorter, at, as it would, among other geographical features, not include most of the 1, 419 offshore islands ( each defined as exceeding 100 square meters in area ) and the 180 km long Limfjorden, which separates Denmark's second largest island, North Jutlandic Island, 4, 686 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in size, from the rest of Jutland.

The largest islands are:

The main island is the largest of about 60 islands which form the Chagos Archipelago.

The two largest islands are Saaremaa ( literally, island land ), at, and Hiiumaa, at.

The Faroes ' two largest islands were connected into what is now referred to as " Meginlandið ", the Mainland.

Their largest vessel is the new Smyril, a roll-on / roll-off ferry which maintains the link between Tórshavn and the southern islands.

* The third largest of the country's 60, 000 lakes, Lake Inari in the Lapland province of extreme northern Finland, has a surface area of, a total shore length of, a maximum depth of, some 3, 318 islands, and a total water volume of.

The largest was called Royal Island, another St. Joseph ( after the patron saint of the expedition ), and the smallest of the islands, surrounded by strong currents, Île du Diable ( the infamous " Devil's Island ").

Gotland is located in the Baltic Sea to the east of Öland, and is the largest of Sweden's islands.

Roatán, the largest of the three islands, is fifty kilometers long by five kilometers wide.

Greenland is the world's largest island with an area of over 2. 1 million km², while Australia, the world's smallest continent has an area of 7. 6 million km², but there is no standard of size which distinguishes islands from continents, or from islets.

The largest of these islands include Halmahera, Seram and Buru, all of which rise steeply out of very deep seas and have unique Wallacea vegetation.