Aldi’s has been discussed here previously, but there are three Aldi’s in my region that are just on the fringes of the suburbs. Love the unusual things you can find every so often (tamales, weinerschnitzel, herring in dill sauce, frozen gyro kits), as well as the low prices. I would not, however, try shopping there on a Saturday morning! … It’s Save-A-Lot or Save-More (something like that) that are located in the actual city.
I could not tell you what the Koch Brothers do, other than evil and philanthropy. I guess it’s a holding company, which means it doesn’t really do anything directly.
They provide background check services.
My company uses SAP otherwise I wouldn’t know what it was either.
A relative works for Ingersoll Rand but I still don’t 100% understand it.
Koch Brothers own so many companies - very diversified. Georgia Pacific which is various paper products, and they are into oil and stuff too I think.
IBM came into my work to do a phone project, so they do that at least.
“Oh, Cisco!”
“Oh, Pancho!”
I’m old.
Not quite the same but a friend having just watched the movie Schindler’s List, and got into an elevator (as you guys call them) and being English she realised looking at the maker that she was now in Schindler’s Lift.
I don’t really get what Maersk does that makes me see it all over the place.
I thought you said frozen gyno kits.
So they don’t actually do anything, but they’re coining it anyway. I’d like to run a Company that does that, pocket 80 million dollars, then shut it down before we got found out.
Halliburton actually spun off KBR back in 2006, which was their subsidiary that did construction (and, incidentally, the controversial subcontracting for the military). The problematic Halliburton cement on Deepwater Horizon wasn’t construction cement, but the cement that gets pumped into the hole to line the sides of the well itself.
But, yeah, it’s kind of hard to say in a single word what they actually do. They’re basically a conglomerate of a bunch of sub-contractors that do all sorts of little specialized jobs in the oil industry.
A lot of shipping containers in your neighborhood?
Though to be absolutely honest [and I do occasionally shop at the Aldi in Willimantic CT] though they may be one step above ghetto, they still have fresh fruits and vegetables, and a limited selection of meats and dairy, so you can get reasonably priced real non garbage foods and cook them. They are much better than subsisting on McDonalds garbage meals. I have purchased beans, rice, assorted vegetables which can be made into a very healthy meal, herbs and spices to flavor the meal, and fruit for dessert. The cost was very reasonable, less than what it would have cost to feed the same number of people at a fast food place, even accounting for the use of electricity for cooking. Yes it was vegan, but I could have purchased a tiny canned ham or a package of bacon and added some pig to the beans and rice.
When I was living in Gaertringen in 2003 if I wanted to walk, I shopped at all the tiny little stores in town - the green grocer, the baker, the butcher .. if we wanted to buy a large amount of stuff we went to the Real a couple train stops over in Boblingen.. Nearest equivalent at the time to me would have been a Super Walmart.
I don’t remember what the company is called but there is a company out there that pays big money for prime advertising space along the center ice boards at Rogers Arena and they are definitely not a company that Joe Public just walks into and buys something from. I guess those ads are aimed at the money men in the box seats because I can’t see any other reason to buy what has to be the most expensive spot in the arena just to advertise a company 99% of the audience has never heard of anywhere else.
Honeywell is also a military manufacturer/contractor. A lot of their hardware comes through my lab…
I live in the greater Dayton (Ohio) area, and there’s a large **LexxusNexis **facility located south of Dayton along I-75. From what I’ve heard, they maintain the world’s largest database of legal documents, and they sell subscriptions to it.
Depends on where you are. My closest Aldi is a bit run down. The ones out near where I work are fairly new, very clean, in nice enough areas and are actually pleasurable to shop at. They do maintain the Aldi mission statement of “Let’s buy six cash registers but only ever use one” though.
I remember then as a shipping company from the Somali pirate hijacking and US Navy rescue a couple years ago.
Sunrider Global, I knw what they say they do but they just seem to big for what they are supposed to be.
Like Evergreen. You see it everywhere up and down the Alameda Corridor, and might wonder, “What the hell is it?”, but their function is pretty tangible: they’re the company that gets that massive quantity of cheaply manufactured goods from China to here.
I know what they do (heaps and loads of…stuff), but anyone who can concisely describe what GE does deserves a medal.
If you wanted to say it as succinctly as possible, you would call GE a conglomerate that focuses on financing and energy.