BHP Billiton
BHP Billiton,is a company headquartered in Melbourne , Victoria, Australia.. It mines metals and petroleum. It was founded in 1885, in Broken Hill. Broken Hill is a mining town in the center of Australia. In 2017, BHP was the world's largest mining company, based on market capitalization,[4][5] and as Australia's third-largest company by revenue,[6] which "almost tripled between 2004 and 2012."[7]
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| Company type | Public |
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| lse:BLT nyse:BHP nyse:BBL asx:BHP jse:BIL FTSE 100 Component | |
| ISIN | GB00BH0P3Z91  |
| Industry | Metals and Mining |
| Founded | Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) 1885; Billiton plc 1860; Merger of BHP & Billiton 2001 (creation of a DLC) |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia (BHP Billiton Group & BHP Billiton Limited) London, United Kingdom (BHP Billiton plc)[1] |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Ken MacKenzie (Chairman) Andrew Mackenzie (CEO) |
| Products | Iron ore, coal, petroleum, copper, natural gas, nickel & uranium |
| Revenue | US$38.285 billion (2017)[2] |
| US$11.753 billion (2017)[2] | |
| US$6.222 billion (2017)[2] | |
| Total assets | 111,993,000,000 United States dollar (2018) |
Number of employees | 65,000 (2017)[3] |
| Website | www.bhp.com |
BHP Billiton was formed in 2001 through the merger of the Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) and the Anglo–Dutch Billiton plc.[8] The Australia-registered Limited has a primary listing on the Australian Securities Exchange and is one of the largest companies in Australia by market capitalization. The English-registered plc arm has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
In 2017, most Billiton assets were severed and rebranded as South32, while a scaled-down BHP Billiton became BHP.
References
change- ↑ "Global Headquarters". BHP.com. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). BHP. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ↑ "About us". BHP Billiton. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
- ↑ Statista "Top mining companies worldwide based on market capitalization in 2017", Statista.com. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Els, Frik "Top 50 mining companies reshuffle as Chinese, lithium firms climb rankings", Mining.com, June 5, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Hall, Ben, et al Archived 2019-03-28 at the Wayback Machine "THE 2017 MELBOURNE TOP COMPANIES REVEALED: THE TOP 10", by Ben Hall, David Simmons, Paris Faint, Yasmin Bonnell, Business News Australia, June 2, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Statista "2017 ranking of the global top mining companies based on revenue (in billion U.S. dollars)", Statista.com, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ↑ "BHP Billiton merger confirmed". www.abc.net.au. 19 March 2001. Retrieved 18 April 2011.