According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

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

The buyout, secretly negotiated by Charles M. Schwab ( no relation to Charles R. Schwab ), was the largest such industrial takeover in United States history to date.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

The largest producer of industrial Cheddar style cheese in the United States, Kraft, uses a combination of annatto and oleoresin paprika, an extract of the lipophilic ( oily ) portion of paprika.

The history of the state's economic and industrial development is closely tied to the impact of the Du Pont family, founders and scions of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, one of the world ’ s largest chemical companies.

The Congo is the world's largest producer of cobalt ore, and a major producer of copper and industrial diamonds.

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.

The industry is concentrated mainly in Guayaquil, the largest industrial center, and in Quito where in recent years the industry has grown considerably, this city is also the largest business center of the country.

Ethiopia nationalized Eritrea ’ s 42 largest factories and systematically dismantled the Eritrean industrial sector during the protracted civil war.

The Red Guards controlled the area to the south, including nearly all the major industrial centres, and the largest estates and farms with high numbers of crofters and tenant farmers.

The project stalled due to difficulties in the work, corruption and other issues, and in 1888, ran out of money when it reached San Pedro Sula, resulting in its growth into the nation's main industrial center and second largest city.

Both Puerto Cortés, the country's largest port, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras's industrial capital, are located here, as is La Ceiba, the third largest city in the country.

The country is also well known for its influential and innovative business economic sector, an industrious and competitive agricultural sector ( Italy is the world's largest wine producer ), and for its creative and high-quality automobile, industrial, appliance and fashion design.

As a result, the USSR was rapidly transformed from an agrarian society into an industrial power, the basis for its emergence as the world's second largest economy after World War II.

In early 1995, Askar Akayev, the then President of Kyrgyzstan, attempted to sell Russian companies controlling shares in the republic's twenty-nine largest industrial plants, an offer that Russia refused.

At his death twenty thousand people worked for Krupp — making it the world's largest industrial company and the largest private company in the German empire.

Legnica houses industrial plants belonging to KGHM Polska Miedź, one of the largest producers of copper and silver in the world.

As a result tourism has become Malaysia ’ s third largest source of income from foreign exchange, although it is threatened by the negative effects of the growing industrial economy, with large amounts of air and water pollution along with deforestation affecting tourism.

* 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $ 40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 56. 9 %, followed by the industrial sector at 26. 1 %( 2008 ).

Coffee is the largest state-owned enterprise.

In Italy, the Fascist period presided over the creation of the largest number of state-owned enterprises in Western Europe, such as the nationalisation of petroleum companies into a single state enterprise called the Italian General Agency for Petroleum ( Azienda Generale Italiani Petroli, AGIP ).

* Kolaoholdings is South Korean company in Laos which is currently the largest private enterprise.

The largest regional enterprise operates here, the Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks in Nowa Huta, employing 17, 500 people.

The territory of New Netherland, containing the Northeast's largest rivers with access to the beaver trade, was originally a private, profit-making commercial enterprise focusing on cementing alliances and conducting trade with the diverse Indian tribes.

The largest routers ( such as the Cisco CRS-1 or Juniper T1600 ) interconnect the various ISPs, or may be used in large enterprise networks.

Jack Kelly was a local hero as a triple Olympic-gold-medal-winning sculler, and became wealthy as his construction company became the largest such enterprise on the East Coast.

Informix 11. 7 is offered in a number of editions, including free developer editions, editions for small and midsized business, and editions supporting the complete feature set and designed to be used in support of the largest enterprise applications.

Nasser initiated the Helwan steelworks, which were on their way to becoming Egypt's largest enterprise, providing the country with product and the employment of tens of thousands of people.

The government, therefore, did not strenuously resist the tendency for voucher privatization to turn into " insider privatization ," as it was termed, in which senior enterprise officials acquired the largest proportion of shares in privatized firms.

GlobeCast is the world largest provider of transmission of satellite and production services for professional broadcast, online content and enterprise multimedia.

Turning Stone Casino Resort is an enterprise of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, and the largest private employer in Oneida County.

The principal manufacturing plant and largest industrial employer is the St. Kitts Sugar Manufacturing Corp., a government enterprise ; it grinds and processes sugarcane for export.

Chemicals is nearly a $ 3 trillion global enterprise, and the EU and U. S. chemical companies are the world's largest producers.

The largest commercial enterprise to occur in Hartwick was probably the Oneonta-Mohawk trolley line which arrived in 1901 and had extensive shops, car barn and yards on the southeast side of the village, many of the hamlets and crossings still show architectural signs of its passage nearly a century after the last passenger service.

In its time, the canal company was the largest private commercial enterprise in the nation.

Under Sloan's direction, GM became the largest industrial enterprise the world had ever known.

Prior to founding Zerofootprint, Dembo was the Founder, CEO, and President of Algorithmics Incorporated, growing it from a start-up to the largest enterprise risk-management software company in the world, with offices in fifteen countries and over 70 % of the world ’ s top 100 banks as clients.

At Mellon Mortgage 18 VS systems from the smallest to the largest were used as the enterprise mortgage origination, servicing, finance, documentation and hedge system and also for mainframe gateway services for logon and printing.

Started in 1927 by Joseph Augusti Kayalackakom, it grew up to become the largest business enterprise of Kerala, and the 17th largest among the 94 scheduled commercial banks in India.

The largest enterprise is Owens Corning with approximately 180 employees.

The woodworking enterprise, the charcoal producing enterprise and the printing house “ Katoļu dzeive ” are the largest of those.