Oracle Corporation

Oracle is an American computer technology corporation in Redwood Shores,

California. The company is best known for its Oracle database software, cloud
engineered systems, enterprise software products, a relational database management
system and for computer systems and software, such as Solaris and Java acquired in
its purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010. In 2018, Oracle was the third-largest
software maker by revenue, after Microsoft and Alphabet.
The company, was founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison and Bob Miner, computer
programmers at the American electronics company Ampex Corporation. Inspired by a
research paper written by British-born computer scientist Edgar F. Codd that
outlined a relational database model. In 1979 the company released Oracle, the
earliest commercial relational database program to use Structured Query Language
and it quickly became popular. It’s first customer was the U.S. Air Force, which used
the program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio.
Oracle designs, manufactures, and sells both software and hardware products, as well
as offering services that complement them (such as financing, training, consulting,
and hosting services). Many of the products have been added to Oracle's portfolio
through acquisitions.
Oracle ranked No. 82 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States
corporations by total revenue. According to Bloomberg, Oracle's CEO-to-employee
pay ratio is 1,205:1. The CEO's compensation in 2017 was $108,295,023. Meanwhile,
the median employee compensation rate was $89,887.
Oracle Corporation has it.s overall headquarters on the San Francisco Peninsula in
the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City, adjacent to Belmont and near San
Carlos Airport

Oracle headquarter stands on the former site of Marine World Africa USA, which
moved from Redwood Shores to Vallejo in 1986. Oracle Corporation originally
leased two buildings on the site, moving on Davis Drive, Belmont, California.

The distinctive Oracle Parkway buildings, nicknamed the Emerald City, served as
sets for the futuristic headquarters of the fictional company "NorthAm Robotics" in
the Robin Williams film Bicentennial Man (1999).The campus represented the
headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems in the movie Terminator Genisys (2015).
 Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is an American medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer
packaged goods manufacturing company. It was founded in 1886. Its common stock
is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is ranked No.
37 on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total
revenue.

Johnson & Johnson is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the consumer
division being located in Skillman, New Jersey. The corporation includes some 250
subsidiary companies with operations in 60 countries and products sold in over 175
countries. Johnson & Johnson had worldwide sales of $70.1 billion during calendar
year 2015 Johnson & Johnson's brands include numerous household names of
medications and first aid supplies. It’s well-known consumer products are the Band-
Aid Brand line of bandages, Tylenol medications, Johnson's
baby products, Neutrogena skin and beauty products, Clean & Clear facial wash and
Acuvue contact lenses.

Johnson & Johnson operates over 250 companies in what is termed as The Johnson
& Johnson family of companies. 
A small company that made surgical dressings to a multinational pharmaceutical
giant is nothing short of phenomenal. Back in the 1860s, there was a time where
sterile surgical practices were lacking at large. Inspired by Joseph Lister, who
was a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, Robert Wood Johnson along with his
brothers James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson founded Johnson &
Johnson in January 1886 and began to offer ready to use surgical dressings to
improve sanitation and health-care practices in the 19th century.
By 1937, Johnson & Johnson expanded to countries like UK, Argentina and
Brazil. The company went public in the year 1944.
Johnson & Johnson reported earnings of US$1.3 billion, with an annual revenue of
US$76.5 billion, an increase of 6.3% over the previous fiscal cycle. Johnson &
Johnson's shares traded at over $126 per share, and its market capitalization was
valued at over US$367.5 billion in September 2018.
 FUJITSU

Fujitsu is a Japanese information technology equipment and services company

headquartered in Tokyo, Japan In 2015, it was the world's fourth-largest IT services
provider measured by IT services revenue (after IBM, HP and Accenture). Fortune
named Fujitsu as one of the world's most admired companies and a Global 500
company.

Fujitsu chiefly makes computing products, but the company and its subsidiaries also
offer a diversity of products and services in the areas of personal computing,
enterprise computing, including x86, SPARC and mainframe server products, as well
as storage products, telecommunications, advanced microelectronics, and air
conditioning. It has approximately 140,000 employees and its products and services
are available in over 100 countries.

Fujitsu is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei

225 and TOPIX indices.

Since it was founded back in 1935, Fujitsu has been innovating information and
communication technologies (ICT) the world over. A long line of landmark
achievements and product milestones have made Fujitsu what it is today – a leading
company in the ICT space.
Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu's Research and Development division, has 1,300
employees and a capital of 5 Billion Yen. It is run by Tatsuo Tomita.

In 2012, Fujitsu announced that it had developed new technology for non-3D camera
phones. The technology will allow the camera phones to take 3D photos .
 H&M
Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish clothing-retail company known for its fast
fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children. H&M and its associated
companies operate in 62 countries with over 4,500 stores and as of 2015 employed
around 132,000 people. It is the second-largest global clothing retailer, just behind
Spain based Inditex (parent company of Zara). The company has a significant on-line
presence, with on-line shopping available in 33 countries.
The company was founded by Erling Persson in 1947, when he opened his first shop
in Västerås Sweden. The shop, called Hennes (Swedish for "hers"), exclusively sold
women's clothing. A store was opened in Norway in 1964 In 1968, Persson acquired
the hunting apparel retailer Mauritz Widforss which led to the inclusion of a
menswear collection in the product range and the name change to Hennes &
Mauritz.
In addition to the H&M brand, the company consists of five individual brands with
separate concepts. Q4 2016 saw the hoarding of a new H&M concept in The Dubai
Mall come up, labelled 'H&M Details'.
In Asia and the Middle East and the launch of concept stores including COS,
Weekday, Monki, and Cheap Monday, in 2009 and 2010, branding consultancy
Interbrand ranked the company as the twenty-first most-valuable global
brand, making it the highest-ranked retailer in the survey. It’s worth was estimated at
$12–16 billion.

H&M operated 2,325 stores at the end of 2011, and 2,629 stores at the end of August
2012. It’s 3,000th store opened in September 2013 in Chengdu, China.

This statistic shows the number of stores worldwide of the H&M Group from 2009 to
2017, by country. In 2017, there were 536 H&M stores open throughout the United
States. The total number of H&M stores worldwide amounted to 4,739 in that year.
The average H&M salary ranges from approximately $16,432 per year for Sales Lead
to $67,258 per year for Store Manager. Salary information comes from 663 data
points collected directly from employees, users, and past and present job
advertisements on Indeed in the past 36 months.
 Rakuten
Rakuten, Inc is a Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company based
in Tokyo and founded in 1997 by Hiroshi Mikitani. Its B2B2C e-commerce
platform Rakuten Ichiba is the largest e-commerce site in Japan and among the
world's largest by sales. The company operates Japan's biggest Internet bank and
number 1 credit card company. It also offers e-commerce, fintech, digital content and
communications services to over 1 billion members around the world, and operates in
29 countries and regions. It is often referred to as "the Amazon of Japan".
Rakuten was founded as MDM, Inc. by Hiroshi Mikitani on February 7, 1997. The
online shopping marketplace Rakuten Shopping Mall  was officially launched on
May 1, 1997. The company had 6 employees and the website had 13 merchants The
name was changed to Rakuten in June 1999. The Japanese word "Rakuten" means
"optimism"
The Rakuten Group consists in total of around 70 businesses and services in addition
to its online marketplace, includingOnline shopping, Banking, Credit card and
payments, Media,Travel reservations, Professional sports,Video on demand,
Marketing and data analysis, e-reading, Book distribution, Fashion, Mobile
messaging.

The Rakuten Group recorded revenue of ¥790,330 million, up 16.8% year-on-year,

IFRS operating income of ¥133,544 million, up 11.1% year-on-year, and net income
attributable to owners of the parent company of ¥107,923 million, up 48.6% year-on-
year, for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.