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Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Main   Company index by industry Welcome to Wikipedia's companies portal, which seeks to analyse companies by country and industry. Contents: Associated Wikimedia • Categorical index • Did you know? • Index by industry • List of good and featured articles • Related portals • Selected article • Selected picture • Selected ranking • Things you can do GM Holden Ltd is an Australian automaker based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was originally independent, but since 1931 has been a subsidiary of General Motors (GM). Holden has taken charge of vehicle operations for GM in Australasia and, on behalf of GM, holds partial ownership of GM Daewoo in South Korea. Over the years, Holden has offered a broad range of locally produced vehicles, supplemented by imported GM models. In the past, Holden has offered badge engineered Isuzu, Nissan, Suzuki and Toyota models in sharing arrangements. Holden bodyworks are manufactured at Elizabeth, South Australia, and engines are produced at Port Melbourne, Victoria. Historically, production or assembly plants were operated in all mainland states of Australia: Acacia Ridge, Queensland; Dandenong, Victoria; Mosman Park, Western Australia; Pagewood, New South Wales; and Woodville, South Australia. Until 1990, GM's New Zealand subsidiary Holden New Zealand operated a plant based in Trentham, with a plant in Petone running until 1984. The consolidation of car production at Elizabeth was completed in 1988, but some assembly operations continued at Dandenong until 1996. Although Holden's involvement in exports has fluctuated since the 1950s, the declining sales of large cars in Australia has led the company to look to international markets to increase profitability; in 2006, exports alone accounted for almost AU$1.3 billion in earnings. Credit: Fir0002 A Cessna 182P, flown in Swifts Creek, Victoria. Cessna Aircraft Company, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, specializing in small, piston-powered aircraft and medium-sized business jets. The company traces its history to June 1911, when Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built a wood-and-fabric plane and became the first person to build and fly an aircraft between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Today employing 9,500 people, Cessna has been a subsidiary of Textron since 1992. Template:/box-header From Wikipedia's newest articles: ... that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD? ... that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops? ... that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history? ... that Aso Mining Company, which belongs to former Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II? ... that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production? ... that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media's films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards? Largest market capitalization in Q2 2015 1   Apple Inc. 2   Microsoft 3   Exxon Mobil 4   Berkshire Hathaway 5   Google 6   PetroChina 7   ICBC 8   Wells Fargo 9   Johnson & Johnson 10   General Electric More lists and rankings... Featured articles 2 Featured lists 2 A-Class articles 2 Good articles 2 Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Companies/to do}} Template:/box-footer Accountancy Business Companies Cooperatives Deletion sorting Economics Finance Game theory International development Investment Numismatics Private Equity Retailing Shopping Centers Taxation Trade Business and economics Capitalism Cooperatives Energy Law Numismatics Society What are portals? List of portals Featured portals