Wesfarmers
| Wesfarmers Limited
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| legal form | Limited |
| ISIN | AU000000WES1 |
| founding | 1914 |
| Seat |
Perth , Australia
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| management | Michael Chaney (Chairman) Rob Scott (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | by 223,000 |
| sales | 62450000000 AUD (38.5 billion euros ) |
| Branch | Conglomerate |
| Website | www.wesfarmers.com.au |
| As of June 30, 2015 | |
Wesfarmers is one of the largest Australian public companies . The group is a conglomerate of various branches of industry such as fertilizer production, coal mining, chemicals, liquefied gas, building materials production, insurance and others. It operates mostly in Australia and New Zealand .
history
The company was founded in 1914 as an agricultural cooperative . In 1984 the company went public on the Australian Stock Exchange . The company performed very well during this period and between 1994 and 2003 was able to achieve a stock return of around 29 percent, the second highest value on the Australian Stock Exchange. In 2000, the company bought the Curragh coal mining company for $ 120 million. The following year, the Howard Smith Group was bought for $ 2.7 billion and its companies, Blackwoods, Bakers, Atkins, Motion Industries, Mullings Fasteners, Protector Alsafe, NZ Safety, Protector Safety Supply and Packaging House were incorporated into Wesfarmers . In November 2007 , Wesfarmers acquired the Coles Group for A $ 19.3 billion. With this acquisition, the number of employees rose from around 30,000 to almost 200,000.
WesCEF
The Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilizers is ammonium nitrate for use as a nitrogen fertilizer and as a mining explosives, sodium cyanide for gold mining and polyvinyl chloride ago.
The CSBP fertilizer plant is located in Kwinana . In addition, CSBP has a 50% stake in Queensland Nitrates in Moura .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wesfarmers: Annual Report 2017. (PDF) Retrieved on April 23, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Wesfarmers: Annual Report 2015. (PDF) Retrieved on May 14, 2016 (English).
- ↑ a b Forbes: A Good Mix - A conglomerate that looks out for its shareholders. , ( WebCite ( Memento from January 3, 2009 on WebCite ))
- ^ The Age, Wesfarmers, BWPT near $ 150m deal , Feb. 16, 2004 , ( WebCite ( January 3, 2009 memento on WebCite ))
- ↑ Wesfarmers Anual Report 08 , p. 8
- ↑ for coal mining in the Bowen Basin
- ↑ Our businesses
- ↑ CSBP