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by Xixi 1150 days ago
One of the biggest industry in France is aerospace (might even be the biggest, not by market cap but by revenue/people employed), and yet Airbus (not only French of course, also German, Spanish, etc.) is headquartered in the Netherlands. Car maker Stellantis (far from being only French, maybe mostly Italian?) is also headquartered in the Netherlands. Neither are particularly dutch as far as I know.

I wonder to what extent the list you link to is affected by French companies moving their headquarters to the Netherlands (or sometimes Luxembourg). Either directly, or while merging with other European companies...

Netherlands are a little bit like the European Delaware in that regard... And would you exclude Delaware corps when looking at New York or California?

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Safran is on this list. Airbus is listed under Netherlands, fair point.

> I wonder to what extent the list you link to is affected by French companies moving their headquarters to the Netherlands (or sometimes Luxembourg). Either directly, or while merging with other European companies...

Well, cross reference the lists and you tell me.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/netherlands/largest-companies...

Stellantis, Airbus, anyone else?