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Company Headquarters: Gothenburg, Sweden Founded: 1927 Workforce: ~ 95,850 Company Working: Volvo Group is a manufacturer of trucks, buses, construction equipment, diesel engines, and marine and industrial engines. The Volvo Group also provides solutions for financing and service. Its segments include Trucks, Construction Equipment, Buses, Volvo Penta, Group functions & Other, and Financial Services. The Company's brand portfolio consists of Volvo, Volvo Penta, UD, Terex Trucks, Renault Trucks, Prevost, Nova Bus and Mack. In addition to vehicles and machines, its offering includes a range of services, such as insurance, rental services, spare parts, preventive maintenance, service agreements, assistance services and information technology (IT) services. Its product range is divided into Vehicles and Services. The sale of new vehicles, machinery and engines comprise Vehicles, as well as the sale of used vehicles and machines, trailers, superstructures and special vehicles. Its Services include the sale of spare parts.

Company Headquarters: USA Founded: 1968 Workforce: ~ 7300 Company Working: Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. engages in the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of products for lawn and garden care and indoor and hydroponic gardening. Its products and services include lawn care, gardening and landscape, hydroponic hardware and growing environments, lighting, controls, and marketing agreement. It operates through the following segments: U.S. Consumer, Hawthorne, and Other. The U.S. Consumer and Other segments manufacture and market branded consumer lawn and garden products. The U.S. Consumer segment consists of consumer lawn and garden business in the United States. The Hawthorne segment manufactures, markets, and distributes lighting, nutrients, growing media, growing environments, and hardware products for indoor and hydroponic gardening in North America. The company's primary customers include home centers, mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, large hardware chains, independent hardware stores, nurseries, garden centers, food and drug stores, e-commerce platforms and indoor gardening and hydroponic stores. Scotts Miracle-Gro markets its products in North America, Europe, Latin America, the Far East and Australia. The company operates through three segments: U.S. Consumer, Hawthorne and Other. The U.S. Consumer segment comprises of consumer lawn and garden business. The lawn category products include lawn fertilizer products under the Scotts and Turf Builder brand names; grass seed products under the Scotts, Turf Builder, EZ Seed, PatchMaster and Thick’R Lawn brand and sub-brand names; and lawn-related weed, pest and disease control products primarily under the Scotts brand name, including sub-brands such as GrubEx. It also includes spreaders and other durables under the Scotts brand name, including Turf Builder EdgeGuard spreaders and Handy Green II handheld spreaders. In addition, the company also market outdoor cleaners under the Scotts brand name. The garden category products include a complete line of water-soluble plant foods under the Miracle-Gro brand and sub-brands such as LiquaFeed, continuous-release plant foods under the Miracle-Gro, sub-brands of Miracle-Gro such as Shake ‘N Feed; potting mixes and garden soils under the Miracle-Gro, Scotts, Hyponex, Earthgro brand names; plant-related pest and disease control products under the Ortho brand; organic garden products under the Miracle-Gro Performance Organics, Miracle-Gro Organic Choice, Scotts, Whitney Farms and EcoScraps brand names; and live goods and seeding solutions under the Miracle-Gro brand. Hydroponic gardening focused growing media and nutrients products are marketed under the Mother Earth, Botanicare, General Hydroponics, Cyco and Vermicrop brand names as well as brands owned by third parties for which the company serve as distributor. In FY2022, the US Consumer segment generated revenue of US$2,928.8 million, which accounted for 74.6% of the company’s revenue. Under Hawthorne segment, the company provides hydroponic gardening, urban and indoor business. Hydroponics products are used in growing vegetables, plants and flowers that comprises growing media, lighting, nutrients, systems sold under brands of Agrolux, AeroGarden, Vermicrop, General Hydroponics, Gavita, Can-Filters, Gro Pro, HydroLogic, Cyco, Mother Earth, Hurricane, Grower’s Edge and Botanicare. In FY2022, the Hawthorne segment generated revenue of US$716.2 million, which accounted for 18.3% of the company’s revenue. Through Other segment the company offers consumer lawn and garden business in regions other than the US. In FY2022, Other segment generated revenue of US$279.1 million, which accounted for 7.1% of the company’s revenue. Geographically, Scotts Miracle-Gro classifies its revenue into two segments: the US and International. In FY2022, the US segment accounted for 90.6% of its total revenue followed by 9.4% from International.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 1961 Workforce: ~ 13,561 Company Working: Coromandel International Ltd. engages in the manufacture and market of fertilizers and pesticides products. It operates through the Nutrients and Allied Business; and Crop Protection segments. The Nutrients and Allied Business segment consists of specialty nutrients and organic fertilizers. The Crop Protection segment produces insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides. The company was founded on October 16, 1961 and is headquartered in Secunderabad, India. Coromandel has a manufacturing capacity of around 4.5 million tonnes per annum for fertilizers and more than 80,000 tons of crops protection products. The Company operates 16 manufacturing facilities in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh; and seven R&D facilities. The company produces 13 different fertilizer products; more than 60 brand-based crop protection chemicals products; and various bio and organic products. It also supplies crop products across Latin America, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Europe. The company classifies its business operations into two segments: Nutrient and Other Allied Business; and Crop Protection. Coromandel’s Nutrient and Other Allied Business segment offers products such as phosphatic fertilizers; and specialty nutrients such as water-soluble and organic fertilizers, bentonite Sulphur, and micronutrients. In FY2021, the Nutrient and Other Allied Business segment reported revenue of INR1,22,069.4 million, which accounted for 85.6% of the company’s revenue including adjustments and eliminations. The company’s Crop Protection segment offers products such as insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides. It exports its products to various geographical regions including Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In FY2021, the Crop Protection segment reported revenue of INR20,582.4 million, which accounted for 14.4% of the company’s revenue including adjustments and eliminations. Coromandel operates approximately 800 stores in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, and Maharashtra

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 1948 Workforce: ~ 1,716 Company Working: Rallis India Ltd. engages in the manufacture and marketing of agricultural inputs primarily in India. The firm offers crop protection products, including insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides; seed treatment chemicals, and seeds, such as hybrid rice, maize, pearl millet, sunflower, vegetable, cotton, paddy, mustard, and wheat. It also provides household products, such as Termex, an insecticide for termite control, Sentry, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, and Hippo, a household insecticide for control of houseflies and cockroaches. In addition, the firm offers contract manufacturing services for crop protection chemicals, specialty chemicals, polymers, and intermediates, plant growth nutrients, and agri services to the farming community. It is a subsidiary of Tata Chemicals. Rallis business segments are further divided into six divisions: domestic crop protection, international business, contract manufacturing, seeds, plant growth nutrients, and agri services. The company through its domestic crop protection division offers crop protection products, seed treatment chemicals, and house hold products. Rallis produces 200 million tons of food grain. Rallis produces crop protection products includes insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. Rallis' international business division offers pesticides to over 70 countries. The company's international business division's product portfolio consists of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. The key focus areas of this division include addressing regional registration requirements, product development, alliance partnership in the field of registration based sales and contract manufacturing. The company provides contract manufacturing services in partnership with companies such as agrochemicals, fine chemicals, specialty chemicals, polymers and pharmaceutical intermediates. Rallis through Metahelix, a seeds research company, offers hybrid rice, maize, pearl millet, sunflower, vegetable products. The company’s seed products include hybrid BT cotton, hybrid maize, hybrid paddy, hybrid pearl millet (Bajra), mustard, and wheat. The company through its plant growth nutrients division involved in providing crop nutrition products. Its products include gluco beta, ralligold, solubor, tata bahaar, tata uphaar, and tracel. Rallis’ agri services division offers GeoGreen, a soil conditioner. It is also involved in the manufacturing of hand sprayers. The company operates through two business segments: Agri Inputs, and Others. In FY2020, the Agri Inputs segment accounted for 98.8% of the company’s total revenue, and the remaining 1.2% was contributed by others. Rallis operates under three categories: Products, Services and Others. In FY2020, the Products category accounted for 99.4% of the company's total revenue, followed by Services with 0.02%, and Others with 0.6%. Geographically, the company categorizes its operations into seven geographical regions: India, Asia (other than India), North America, South America, Africa, Australia, and Europe. In FY2020, the India accounted for 69.9% of the company’s total revenue, followed by Asia (other than India) 16.1%, followed by North America 8%, followed by South America 4%, followed by Africa 1.3%, followed by Australia 0.03%, and the remaining 0.7% was contributed by Europe.

Company Headquarters: Harbin, China Founded: 1994 Workforce: ~ 11,700 Company Working: Harbin Electric Corporation (Harbin Electric), a subsidiary of Harbin Electric Corp, is a manufacturer and seller of power plant equipment. It provides hydro, thermal, nuclear, and gas turbine equipment, as well as desulfurization and denitration equipment, power station valves, petrochemical vessels, and industrial boilers, AC and DC motors, industrial steam turbines, fans, control and protection devices, and fans and control and protection devices. Engineering, contracting, and electrical equipment export services for thermal and hydro power stations, turnkey combined cycle power plant engineering, and construction of transport substation facilities and utilities are also provided by the company. It sells its wares in South Asia, Southeast Asia, South America, and North East Africa.

Company Headquarters: Chengdu, China Founded: 1984 Workforce: ~ 16,000 Company Working: Dongfang Electric Corp Ltd is a Chinese company that primarily manufactures and sells power generation equipment. The Company is divided into five major reporting segments: Clean and High-Efficiency Energy Equipment, Renewable Energy Equipment, Engineering and Trade, Modern Manufacturing Service Industry, and Emerging Growth Industry. Water turbine generator sets, steam turbine generator sets, wind turbine generator sets, power station steam turbines and power station boilers, as well as gas turbines, are the primary products of the company. The company distributes its products both domestically and internationally.

Company Headquarters: Bhubaneswar, India Founded: 1981 Workforce: ~5,520 Company Working: National Aluminum Company Limited (NALCO) is a leading lowest-cost producer of alumina and bauxite in the World. The Government of India holds 51.28% of the paid-up equity capital of the company. NALCO is one of the largest integrated primary manufacturers of aluminum in Asia and deals with the entire value chain from bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminum smelting, and power generation to downstream products. The business segment includes alumina, power, metal, and others. The zeolite product comes under the alumina & hydrate product segment. NALCO also creates, produces, and markets useful products for various end-use industry include power, consumer durables, transportation, construction, packaging, etc. It has three manufacturing sites present, and seven offices across India. It has a strong export market across Asia-Pacific, America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan Founded: 1970 Workforce: ~ 26,054 Company Working: Union Showa K.K. is a global functional chemicals manufacturer and sells its products and services across the globe. In January 2023, Showa Denko K.K. and Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd., integrated to form a new company “Resonac”. This integration is a big step forward to becoming a top-level functional chemicals manufacturer worldwide. The company operates in seven business segments: petrochemicals, materials, electronics, chemicals, inorganics, aluminum, and others. It has a strong domestic presence followed by China and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. Also, the company operates in Europe, America, the Middle East, and Africa region.

Company Headquarters: Maryland, United States Founded: 1854 Workforce: ~4,600 Company Working: W. R. Grace & Co. is a global leading company in the specialty chemicals and materials market. It is engaged in producing and selling specialty chemicals and materials across the globe. It operates through business segments, namely catalysts technologies and materials technologies. The materials technologies segment offers products and services, viz. chemical process, coatings, consumer/pharmaceuticals, and others. Zeolites are offered under catalysts technologies products and services. The company offers zeolites for diverse industries, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, personal care, and consumer electronics. It has a strong presence in Europe followed by North America and Asia-Pacific region. Also, the company has 22 manufacturing facilities in 8 countries, 13 R&D and technical service facilities in 7 countries, operations in 30 countries, and a customer base of more than 60 countries.