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Koch Industries, the largest privately-held oil company in the United States, has frequently been taken to task for its environmental infractions. In September 2000, the United States government brought a 97-count indictment against the company; after the inauguration of George W. Bush, the number of counts dropped from 97 to 9; two more charges were dropped in March, and the case was finally settled by the Justice Department two days before it would have gone to trial.
Above should strike out the word "oil" in the statement "largest privately-held oil company" as Koch owns many different types of businesses, as the main page clearly shows. I would add that "frequently" is a matter of opinion as only 1 example is cited above, hardly meriting the label of "frequently".
The other reason I take issue with "frequently" is that adherance to all laws of the land are drilled into employees from Day 1, and as we are trained "10,000 percent compliance is expected - 100 percent of employees complying 100 percent of the time with the law and all Company policies". I can testify to the fact employees are removed at a moment's notice if evidence they are NOT complying is found, having watched several employees go for just that reason.
Again, not sure this is the correct way to dispute something nor if I did this in the correct way, if not, someone feel free to correct me/offer suggestions.Predator42 (talk) 11:56, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Who is the biggest ?
Please note this entry for Cargill:
Cargill, Incorporated is a privately held, multinational corporation, and is based in the state of Minnesota in the United States. It was founded in 1865, and has grown into the world's largest privately held corporation (in terms of revenue).
A search on Google also gave this info (in a chached page):
With more than $350 billion in assets plus another $650 billion in outstanding mortgage-backed securities, the Federal National Mortgage Association—better known as Fannie Mae— is the largest private corporation in America.
As well as this one:
In today's ever demanding economy, Wal-Mart has recently become the front runner in the race to be the largest private corporation in America.
KeyStroke 19:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Cargill is, although Koch will be. Once Koch completes its acquisition of Georgia-Pacific, it will surpass Cargill as the largest private corporation, as measured by revenue. That's according to Forbes magazine's annual list of the largest private corporations. Fannie Mae and Wal-Mart are "private companies" only in the sense that they are not government-owned. In the sense used in this article, Fannie Mae and Wal-Mart are "public companies" because their stock is traded on major stock exchanges. Lobosolo 01:06, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Purina
The link to Purina makes no mention of Koch Industries.
That would be because Koch sold its Purina interests some years back - I know this as I work for a business Koch owns, and the training they send us to that introduces us to Koch industries and teaches us how they do business mentioned Purina and the fact that Koch quickly disposes of assets it deems not profitable enough or cannot turn around to be profitable quickly enough - Purina was specifically mentioned as a failed experiment.
Apologies if this was not the correct place to put this or if I did something in the wrong way - this is literally my first Wikipedia posting. Predator42 (talk) 11:38, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bush and Koch relationship
Bobby Koch (married to George Bush's sister) is NOT the son of Fred Koch, co-founder of Koch Industries. This is misleading to point out in the critism section without providing any connection other than last name. Vewatson 17:16, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Propaganda?
I removed the propaganda template; this may have been an attempt to say that a section read like propaganda (although I'm not seeing it). However, the template was actually the box used for linking to various types of propaganda - doesn't really fit. CredoFromStart talk 15:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
