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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: The Swatch Group, Nestle, Novartis, List of companies by revenue, UBS, Transocean, Royal Bank of Canada, Syngenta, ABB Group, SGS S.A., Credit Suisse, Austriamicrosystems, Hoffmann-La Roche, Zurich Financial Services, Xstrata, Lindt & Sprungli, Swiss Re, Straumann, Barry Callebaut, Logitech, Edipresse, Synthes, Uster Technologies, Givaudan, Richemont, Swisscom, Nobel Biocare, Julius Baer Group, Kudelski Group, Swiss Life, Evolva Holding, Baloise, Sulzer, Day Software, Kaba Group, Adecco, Holcim, Gate Group, Partners Group, Elma Electronic, Lonza Group, Petroplus, Panalpina, Dufry, Kuehne + Nagel, Ascom, Clariant, Basilea Pharmaceutica, OC Oerlikon, BB Biotech, Implenia, Emmi AG, GAM Holding. Excerpt: This is a list of the world's largest public and private businesses by gross revenues. The list is limited to companies with annual revenues exceeding 40 billion U.S. dollars. UBS AG (SIX: UBSN, NYSE: UBS) is a Swiss global financial services company headquartered in Basel and Zurich, Switzerland, which provides investment banking, asset management, and wealth management services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. It operates in more than 40 countries and considered as the world's second largest manager of private wealth assets, with over CHF 2.2 trillion in invested assets. UBS operates in all of the major financial centers worldwide with offices in over 50 countries and 64,000 employees around the world. UBS traces its heritage, through its predecessors, to 1854. UBS was originally an abbreviation for the Union Bank of Switzerland, one of its predecessors; however, UBS ceased to be considered a representational abbreviation after its 1998 merger with Swiss Bank Corporation. UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide, with about 37% o...
