Talk:Multinational corporation

1930 "start date"

Doesn't the "1930" "start date" look a bit late in the light of this from the BP article?

"In May 1901 William Knox D'Arcy was granted a concession by the Shah of Persia to search for oil, which he found in May 1908. This was the first commercially significant find in the Middle East. In 1909 the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was created to exploit this find. The company grew slowly until World War I when its strategic importance led the British Government to acquire a controlling interest in the company and it became the Royal Navy's chief source of fuel oil during World War I.

"In 1917, the war allowed it to take the British arm of the German Europaische Union, which used the trade name British Petroleum. After the war ended the company, in which the British Government now had a 51% interest, moved to secure outlets in Europe and elsewhere. but its main concern was still Persia, following the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919 the company continued to trade profitably in that country."

Robin Patterson 02:26, 27 October 2004 (UTC)

Or this:

In 1905 Nestlé merged with the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. By the early 1900s, the company was operating factories in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Spain. World War I created new demand for dairy products in the form of government contracts. By the end of the war, Nestlé's production had more than doubled.

Robin Patterson 02:32, 27 October 2004 (UTC)

Surely the debate should start with colonial nations (primarily Britain and Netherlands) with tea and spice trading and the East India Trading Company, Hudson Bay Trading etc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.11.77.197 (talk) 17:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Dead link

TNCONLINE.net^does not exist anymore — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.132.137.157 (talk) 14:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

New article on MNCs and foreign policy

Does anyone want to make an article about MNCs and foreign policy? This is a really big issue, especially in contemporary Africa, however I don't feel I'm able to write about it and I've got too much on my to do list. I'd really appreciate it if someone could do this, and I'd be very happy to help Alexanderkowal (talk) 10:18, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Uncited

> After the East India Company came the Dutch East India Company, founded on March 20, 1603, which would become the largest company in the world for nearly 200 years.

Is what it say's currently. There are no sources linked to this stament. 84.199.250.47 (talk) 12:47, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Article is poorly sourced and regularly generalizes too broadly without clarification

It reads fine until you realize these things. It appears to echo of old propaganda against corporations broadly, by making sleight of hand sweeping statements. ~2026-35402-34 (talk) 14:54, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Do you have a specific example? TXstockman5 (talk) 23:17, 22 June 2026 (UTC)