The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

Not enough scheisse porn companies.

[celedhring]

German strength is in the industrial sector, and these kind of companies are not known to the general public outside stuff like Siemens or the car makers. But i.e. Bosch is the largest automotive parts supplier in the world, BASF the largest chemical company...

If we go to other sectors... Bayer is the 4th largest pharma, Lidl is the 5th largest retailer (and growing), Allianz is the 5th largest insurer... I think German companies are fine.

[Admiral Yi]

German strength is in the industrial sector, and these kind of companies are not known to the general public outside stuff like Siemens or the car makers. But i.e. Bosch is the largest automotive parts supplier in the world, BASF the largest chemical company...

If we go to other sectors... Bayer is the 4th largest pharma, Lidl is the 5th largest retailer (and growing), Allianz is the 5th largest insurer... I think German companies are fine.

You're cherry picking the more recognizable names.

[celedhring]

German strength is in the industrial sector, and these kind of companies are not known to the general public outside stuff like Siemens or the car makers. But i.e. Bosch is the largest automotive parts supplier in the world, BASF the largest chemical company...

If we go to other sectors... Bayer is the 4th largest pharma, Lidl is the 5th largest retailer (and growing), Allianz is the 5th largest insurer... I think German companies are fine.

You're cherry picking the more recognizable names.

You were saying there were few household names? I just showed a few.

And as for your previous question, about 1/3 of those I could name what they do. But I work with quite a few Germans.

[Admiral Yi]

https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/components/s&p_100?p=1

For comparison here's the S&P 100.  I'd say I recognize around 80-90% of the names.

[Syt]

https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/components/s&p_100?p=1

For comparison here's the S&P 100.  I'd say I recognize around 80-90% of the names.

I got 70, but mostly because I used to work in pharma, otherwise I would be at 50 or so at most. And some of those names I only recognize from stadium names, like MetLife.

[Admiral Yi]

I got 70, but mostly because I used to work in pharma, otherwise I would be at 50 or so at most. And some of those names I only recognize from stadium names, like MetLife.

How many of the German ones do you recognize?

[Syt]

80-90%? Keeping in mind that I haven't lived in Germany in 15 years, and some companies may have renamed/been founded since then.

[Zoupa]

https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/components/s&p_100?p=1

For comparison here's the S&P 100.  I'd say I recognize around 80-90% of the names.

You're american so you know american companies. Germans  would know german companies. I don't see what's so hard to understand here...

[Admiral Yi]

You're american so you know american companies. Germans  would know german companies. I don't see what's so hard to understand here...

I can explain it to you if you ask nicely.

[Iormlund]

Yet many of them are amongst the largest companies in their sectors. And I guess they're more familiar to euros, maybe many of those companies don't operate as such in the US.

What percentage of those companies are you familiar with?  Ballpark.  I'm guessing around 1/6 for me.

At least half for me, much of that through work (for example Trumpf is one of the big industrial laser manufacturers). I've also lived some time over there, so that makes other brands recognizable (eg. Edeka). The rest are the big ones, except Märklin (uncle is a big model train nerd).

[Syt]

Most people outside Germany won't know Fischer, but they might be familiar with their best known product:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischerwerke

[Admiral Yi]

For some reason I was reminded of that Amazonian parasite that swims up the urine stream and clamps into the urethra.

[Syt]

It's a wall plug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_plug

[Zoupa]

You're american so you know american companies. Germans  would know german companies. I don't see what's so hard to understand here...

I can explain it to you if you ask nicely.

I'm good