** UPDATE **  For the latest list checkout : The Top German Companies By Revenue 2016 (TFS) ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Germany has the largest economy in Europe and is a key member of the European Union. Unlike other European countries the German economy weathered the recent European crisis well and the country helps rescue other debt-ridden EU …

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The German economy is the largest in Europe with population of about 81 million and a GDP of about $3.0 Trillion in 2011. By all measures the German economic growth since the unification with the former East Germany has been a huge success with Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine devoting a cover story on this topic. The country …

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The German economy is the largest economy in Europe. Last year the GDP reached 2.5 Trillion Euros. In the third quarter of this year the economy grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.2% relative to the previous quarter. In the third quarter, the total number of employed persons stood at 41.7 million and the provisional household …

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Germany has set an ambitious plan to move away from fossil fuels and abandon nuclear power in the coming years. As a major industrial powerhouse this a big challenge since the country has to find other sources of electricity to replace the power generated from fossil fuels and nuclear power. Germany is increasingly depending renewable …

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One of the major impacts of Globalization in the past few decades is that large companies have become truly global and no longer depend on one country or territory to do business.The strong growth of Multi-National Companies (MNCs) confirms this phenomenon. American MNCs, for example, have established production facilities overseas and employ millions of workers …

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