International Companies International Companies COMMUNITY BUSINESS THE INTERNATIONAL DFW INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES VARIOUS U.S. HEADQUARTERS AND INTERNATIONAL SUBSIDIARIES IN THE DFW REGION MORE THAN 200 COMPANIES FROM 40 COUNTRIES HAVE THEIR U.S. HEADQUARTERS COMPANIES LOCATED, OR HAVE SUBSTANTIAL OPERATIONS, WITHIN THE REGION. Dallas–Fort Worth is home to an 121 impressive group of foreign-based VARIOUS U.S. HEADQUARTERS AND INTERNATIONAL SUBSIDIARIES IN THE DFW REGION 12 6 subsidiaries, hosting North American 35W 4 7 headquarters or major operations. 7-Eleven - JAPAN LG Electronics USA - SOUTH KOREA 35E 75 International corporate investment in the Accenture - IRELAND L’Oreal USA - FRANCE region refl ects the strength and diversity Associated Air Center - UAE Luxottica Retail - ITALY 1 of the DFW economy and stellar access Atlas Copco Secoroc - SWEDEN MillerCoors - CANADA 13 11 9 190 | INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES to U.S. and global markets by ground or BBVA Compass - SPAIN Mission Foods - MEXICO air, especially through DFW International Blackberry - CANADA NEC Corp of America - JAPAN Airport. Bimbo Bakeries USA/EarthGrains - MEXICO Nestle Waters NA - SWITZERLAND 5 Industries represented here create Bombardier - CANADA NTT Data - JAPAN their own synergies with other U.S.-based Bottle Rocket - UNITED KINGDOM ORIX USA - JAPAN 8 operations and headquarters in the region. Canon USA - JAPAN Publicis - FRANCE For example, the global community has Comparex USA - GERMANY Rolex Watch USA - SWITZERLAND 635 recognized DFW as an important U.S. DHL Global Forwarding - GERMANY SAFRAN Electrical & Power - FRANCE 30 820 183 center for telecommunications, locating Eltek Inc - ISRAEL Santander Consumer USA - SPAIN North American headquarters that Fujitsu America - JAPAN Siemens Industry - GERMANY 12 include Korea’s Samsung, China’s Huawei Gerdau Corp - BRAZIL Signet Jewelers - BERMUDA 10 Technologies, France’s Alcatel-Lucent, GKN Aerostructures NA - UNITED KINGDOM Smith & Nephew - UNITED KINGDOM 30 Sweden’s Ericsson, Japan’s Toyota, and Greyhound Lines - SCOTLAND SMS Infocomm - TAIWAN 360 Lichtenstein’s Hilti. H&K International Americas - IRELAND STMicroelectronics - SWITZERLAND The region also hosts the headquarters Hisun Motors North America - CHINA Telvista - MEXICO 3 of Switzerland-based contact lens Hitachi Consulting Corp - JAPAN The Dannon Co - FRANCE COMPANY PARENT COUNTRY manufacturer Novartis AG-owned Alcon Infosys - INDIA T-Mobile - GERMANY 175 and France’s Essilor of America, as well Jones-Blair - DENMARK Transamerica - THE NETHERLANDS 2 20 United Kingdom Switzerland as the North American headquarters for KONE - FINLAND Trend Micro NA - JAPAN Canada Germany 67 motor vehicle manufacturers like Japan’s KPMG - THE NETHERLANDS ZTE USA - CHINA Japan Other 45 Toyota and Kubota, and China’s Hisun. 35E 35W France COMPANY HOME COUNTRIES REPRESENTED IN DFW HONORARY CONSULS & CONSULS GENERAL SERVING DALLAS FORT WORTH 1 NOKIA is a Finland-based company 5 ESSILOR OF AMERICA is a subsidiary of 9 KUBOTA CORP. is a tractor and heavy BELIZE FRANCE MONACO SLOVAK TUNISIA which designs, develops and builds Paris-based Essilor International, which equipment manufacturer based in Osaka, AUSTRALIA LIECHTENSTEIN REPUBLIC CAMBODIA GERMANY MOROCCO UNITED KINGDOM communications networks. It supplies operates about 250 prescription labora- Japan. One of its notable contributions was AUSTRIA LUXEMBOURG SOUTH AFRICA CANADA HONDURAS THE URUGUAY equipment, software and related services tories that manufacture corrective lenses to the construction of the Solar Ark. The BAHRAIN MEXICO NETHERLANDS SPAIN CHILE ICELAND to telecom carriers and network service worldwide. The company makes and distrib- company was established in 1890. BELGIUM NETHERLANDS NORWAY SRI LANKA ANTILLES COTE D`IVOIRE JAPAN providers, as well as enterprise and utes optical lenses under the Airwear, Crizal, BERMUDA 10 THE TURNER CORP., a subsidiary of DENMARK REPBULIC OF PERU SWEDEN government customers. DEFINITY, Transitions and Varilux brand BRAZIL NEW ZEALAND German construction group HOCHTIEF, is ECUADOR KOREA PHILIPPINES SWITZERLAND names, among others. BRITISH VIRGIN NORWAY 2 ALCON is a manufacturer of intraocular one of the world’s leading general building EL SALVADOR MALTA ROMANIA TAIWAN ISLANDS OMAN lenses, pharmaceutical products and 6 HILTI CORP. is a Liechtenstein-based and construction management fi rms. FINLAND MEXICO SIERRA LEONE THAILAND CANADA RUSSIA care solutions and ophthalmic surgical company that develops, manufactures, 11 SAMSUNG TELECOMMUNICATIONS CHINA SAUDI ARABIA instruments and equipment. Majority- and markets products for the construction, AMERICA researches, develops and markets COLOMBIA SCOTLAND owned by Swiss based Novartis AG. building maintenance, and mining wireless handsets and telecommunication COSTA RICA SINGAPORE industries, primarily to the professional EB 5 INVESTMENT VISA PROGRAM EB 5 OPPORTUNITIES IN NORTH TEXAS: 3 AIRBUS HELICOPTERS is a division of products in North America. CYPRUS SLOVENIA end-user. 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