Independent companies

• 2L Alliance
• ABN Amro
  ABN AMRO
  ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...
  
  
• AEGON
  AEGON
  Aegon N.V. is one of the world’s largest life insurance and pension groups, and a strong provider of investment products. Aegon's head office is in The Hague, Netherlands...
  
  
• Ahold
  Ahold
  Ahold is a major international supermarket operator based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ahold is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.-History:...
  
  
• Akzo Nobel
  Akzo Nobel
  Akzo Nobel N.V., trading as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational, active in the fields of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company has activities in more than 80 countries, and employs approximately 55,000 people. Sales in 2010 were EUR...
  
  
• Amstel
• ASML Holding
  ASML Holding
  ASML is a Dutch company and the largest supplier in the world of photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry. The company manufactures machines for the production of integrated circuits , such as RAM and flash memory chips and CPUs.-Products:...
  
  
• APM Terminals
  APM Terminals
  APM Terminals is an international container terminal operating company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands. It is one of the world's leading port and terminal operators as well as providing cargo support and container Inland Services, and is the largest port and terminal operating company in...
  
  
• Australian Homemade
  Australian Homemade
  Australian Homemade is a franchise formula for confectionery stores owned by Australian Homemade, based in Veenendaal, Netherlands. The stores produce and sell premium ice cream and chocolate using all natural ingredients...
  
  
• Avanade
  Avanade
  Avanade Inc., a subsidiary of Accenture LLP., is a multinational IT consulting and software company that develops business software from a Microsoft products platform. Founded on April 4, 2000, Avanade is atypical amongst many systems integrators such as IBM and EDS in that Avanade's services are...
  
  
• AVEBE
  AVEBE
  The cooperative AVEBE U.A. is an international Dutch starch manufacturer located in the north of the Netherlands and produces starch products based on potato starch and potato protein for use in food, animal feed, paper, construction, textiles and adhesives.About 3000 farmers are member of AVEBE...
  
  
• Basell Polyolefins
  Basell Polyolefins
  Basell Polyolefins was a joint venture between BASF and Royal Dutch Shell. Leonard Blavatnik's Access Industries acquired it from the venturers for $5.7 billion in August 2005...
  
  
• Bas Trucks
• Bavaria
• Beter Bed
  Beter Bed
  Beter Bed N.V. is a Dutch retail company. Through its subsidiaries Beter Bed Holding N.V. trades in bedroom furniture, mattresses and related products. In this line of business Beter Bed N.V is market leader in the Netherlands. Since 5 December 1996 Beter Bed's shares are being traded on the...
  
  
• Bip Candy
• Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster
• Combined Computer Services
• CNH Global
  CNH Global
  CNH Global N.V. is a global, full line company operating in both the agricultural and construction equipment industries. CNH's scope includes integrated engineering, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of equipment on five continents...
  
  
• Cordys
  Cordys
  Cordys is a software company providing a unified cloud platform solution based on Service-oriented architecture, Business process modeling and composite applications development to different enterprises...
  
  
• DAF Trucks
  DAF Trucks
  DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of PACCAR. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven. Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium...
  
  
• DSM
  DSM (company)
  DSM is a multinational life sciences and materials sciences-based company. DSM's global end markets include food and dietary supplements, personal care, feed, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, automotive, paints, electrical and electronics, life protection, alternative energy and bio-based materials...
  
  
• eBuddy
  EBuddy
  eBuddy is a privately held company which owns a browser-based web and mobile messenger service supporting various instant messaging services. eBuddy was launched in 2003 under the name e-Messenger, located at www.e-messenger.net, before rebranding itself in 2006 to eBuddy.eBuddy supports Windows...
  
  
• Exact Software
• Endemol
  Endemol
  Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...
  
  

• Fortis
  Fortis (finance)
  Fortis N.V./S.A. was a company active in insurance, banking and investment management. In 2007 it was the 20th largest business in the world by revenue but after encountering severe problems in the financial crisis of 2008, most of the company was sold in parts, with only insurance activities...
  
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• Friesland Foods
  Friesland Foods
  Royal Friesland Foods is a Netherlands-based multinational cooperative that develops, produces and sells branded dairy products and fruit-based drinks. Royal Friesland Foods has a strong presence in Western Europe, Central Europe, West Africa and Southeast Asia.In 2008, Friesland Foods merged with...
  
  
• Fugro
  Fugro
  Fugro N.V. is a Dutch multinational company headquartered in Leidschendam. The current president is K.S. Wester.Fugro provides geotechnical, survey and geoscience services to oil, gas, mining and construction industries...
  
  
• Getronics
  Getronics
  Getronics N.V. is a company, subsidiary of the Dutch IT & Telecommunications firm KPN since October 2007, focused on creating value for IT Workspace Management Services, Applications & Software Development Services...
  
  
• Grolsch
• Hagemeyer
  Hagemeyer
  Hagemeyer was a business-to-business distribution services group focusing on the markets for electrical materials, safety and other maintenance, repair and operations products in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. It was based in the Netherlands but was acquired by rival Rexel in 2008, with...
  
  
• Heineken International
• HEMA BV.
• Holland Coffee and Tea
• IKEA
  IKEA
  IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...
  
  
• ING Group
  ING Group
  The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...
  
  
• IPTP Networks
  IP Triple Play
  IPTP Networks is a trade mark of Group of the Companies IPTP Holding PLC, IPTP LLC, IPTP Limited, Fredonia Trading Limited, IPTP Networks. IPTP Networks - is a group of Telecommunication companies...
  
   (IPTP Ltd)
• KLM (merged with Air France)
• KPMG
  KPMG
  KPMG is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC. Its global headquarters is located in Amstelveen, Netherlands....
  
  
• KPN
  KPN
  KPN is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations...
  
  
• Lucas Bols
  Lucas Bols
  Lucas Bols is a privately held Dutch company in the business of production, distribution, sales and marketing of alcoholic beverages. It is the oldest Dutch company still active and the oldest distillery brand in the world. Its brand portfolio consists of Bols, Galliano, Vaccari, Pisang Ambon,...
  
  
• Martinair
  Martinair
  For the American cargo airline, see Martinaire.Martinair Holland N.V., operating as Martinair, is an airline headquartered in the TransPort Building on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. It operates cargo services to over 50 destinations worldwide. Services...
  
  
• Mobileye
  Mobileye
  Mobileye is a technology company that focuses on the development of vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems providing warnings for collision prevention and mitigation. Mobileye offers a wide range of driver safety solutions combining artificial vision image processing, multiple...
  
  
• Norfolkline
  Norfolkline
  Norfolkline was a European ferry operator and logistics company owned by Maersk. It provided freight ferry services on the English channel, Irish Sea, and the North Sea; and passenger ferry services on the English channel and Irish Sea; and logistics services across Europe...
  
  
• NXP
• Océ
  Océ
  Océ N.V. is a Netherlands-based company that develops, manufactures and sells printing and copying hardware and related software. The offering includes office printing and copying systems; production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display...
  
  
• Philips
  Philips
  Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....
  
  
• Rabobank
  Rabobank
  Rabobank is a financial services provider with offices worldwide. Their main location is in the Netherlands. They are a global leader in Food and Agri financing and in sustainability-oriented banking...
  
  
• Randstad
  Randstad Holding
  Randstad Holding N.V. is an international company offering temporary staffing and HR services. Randstad was founded in the Netherlands in 1960 by Frits Goldschmeding and operates in around 40 countries. In 2010, the company achieved a turnover of €14.2 billion and a net profit of €288.5 million...
  
  
• Reed Elsevier
  Reed Elsevier
  Reed Elsevier is a publisher and information provider operating in the science, medical, legal, risk and business sectors. It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges. It is a FTSE 100 and FT500 Global company...
  
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  • Elsevier
    Elsevier
    Elsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....
    
    
• Royal Dutch Shell
  Royal Dutch Shell
  Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
  
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• SBM Offshore
  SBM Offshore
  SBM Offshore N.V. is a Dutch-based global group of companies selling systems and services to the offshore oil and gas industry. Its constituent companies started their offshore activities in the early 1950s and SBM subsequently became a pioneer in single point mooring systems...
  
  
• SHV Holdings
  SHV Holdings
  SHV Holdings is a privately owned Dutch trading company, regarded as one of the world's largest private trading groups. SHV have interests in transport, retail, oil and financial services, including part of the Makro cash-and-carry chain.-History:...
  
  
• Simplify-It
• Spyker Cars
  Spyker Cars
  Spyker Cars is a Dutch sports car marque. The modern Spyker Cars only has the legal right to the brand name. The company's motto is "Nulla tenaci invia est via", which is Latin for "For the tenacious, no road is impassable". The marque's logo displays the piston engine of an airplane, a reference...
  
  
• Stork
  Stork N.V.
  Stork B.V. is a Dutch manufacturing and service providing company with its headquarters in Naarden. It was founded in 1868 by Charles Theodoor Stork, although in the 20th century the company merged other companies some, including Werkspoor, founded in 1827 as Nederlandse Fabriek van Werktuigen en...
  
  
• SVS Printing
• TNT
  TNT N.V.
  TNT N.V., more commonly known as TNT, is an international express and mail delivery services company with headquarters in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. In the Netherlands, TNT operates the national postal service under the name TNT Post. The group also offers postal services in eight other European...
  
  
• Telfort
  Telfort
  Telfort B.V. is a Dutch mobile telecommunication company, and a subsidiary of KPN.It operates GSM mobile telecommunications service in the Netherlands...
  
  
• TMF Group
  TMF Group
  TMF Group is an independent provider of accounting, corporate secretarial and HR and payroll administrative services to businesses operating on an international scale....
  
  
• TomTom

• Transavia
• Triodos Bank
  Triodos Bank
  Triodos Bank N.V. is a bank based in the Netherlands with branches in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain. It is a pioneer in ethical banking. Triodos Bank finances companies which it thinks add cultural value and benefit both people and the environment...
  
  
• Trust Computer Products
  Trust (electronics company)
  Trust International B.V. is a privately-held company headquartered in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. It is a manufacturer of value-for-money computer accessories that are marketed mostly at low and middle segment price levels. Trust International B.V. is an international company that is active in...
  
  
• Unilever
  Unilever
  Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
  
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• Vedior
  Vedior
  Vedior N.V. is an international staffing services company providing flexible labour, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and, thus, contributes more than 60% of its revenue to the social benefits of its employees there. Vedior operates worldwide: almost the whole of Europe, North and South America,...
  
  
• VNU
  VNU
  Nielsen is a global marketing and advertising research company headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Nielsen is active in over 100 countries, and employs some 32,000 people worldwide...
  
  
• Waack
• Wavin
  Wavin
  Wavin N.V. is a Dutch manufacturer of pipes . Wavin is the leading supplier of plastic pipe systems and solutions in Europe. The company was officially founded on 5 August 1955, its name deriving from WAter and VINyl chloride...
  
  
• Wolters Kluwer
  Wolters Kluwer
  Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory sectors...
  
  

Subsidiaries of companies

• Baan
  Baan
  Baan was a vendor of enterprise resource planning software that is now owned by Infor Global Solutions.Baan or Baan ERP was also the name of the ERP product created by this company.-History:...
  
  , now known as SSA Global Nederland, part of SSA Global Technologies
  SSA Global Technologies
  SSA Global Technologies was a company developing Enterprise resource planning software. On May 15, 2006, SSA Global announced that it would be acquired by Infor Global Solutions. The acquisition was completed on July 28, 2006...
  
  
• DAF Trucks
  DAF Trucks
  DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of PACCAR. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven. Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium...
  
  , part of PACCAR
  PACCAR
  PACCAR Inc is the third largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks in the world , and has substantial manufacture in light and medium vehicles through its various subsidiaries.-History:...
  
  
• Douwe Egberts
  Douwe Egberts
  Douwe Egberts is a Dutch corporation that processes and trades coffee, tea, and other groceries. Its full name is Douwe Egberts Koninklijke Tabaksfabriek-Koffiebranderijen-Theehandel NV, which translates as "Douwe Egberts Royal Tobacco Factory - Coffee Roasters - Tea Traders, Plc."...
  
  , part of Sara Lee
  Sara Lee
  Sara Lee Corporation is a global consumer-goods company based in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. It has operations in more than 40 countries and sells its products in over 180 nations worldwide...
  
  
• Equant
  Equant (France Télécom)
  Orange Business Services is part of the France Télécom group. Known as Equant before June 2006, Orange Business Services is the entity within the France Télécom Group dedicated to global business telecommunications...
  
  , now owned by France Télécom
  France Télécom
  France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
  
  
• Guerrilla Games
  Guerrilla Games
  Guerrilla Games is a first party video game developer and wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment. The company is based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, currently employs approximately 150 individuals, and is headed by managing director Hermen Hulst and development director Arjan...
  
  , now owned by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
• KLM, part of Air France-KLM
  Air France-KLM
  Air France-KLM is a European airline holding company incorporated under French law with its headquarters at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Tremblay-en-France, Paris...
  
  
• NedCar
  NedCar
  NedCar, officially Netherlands Car B.V. and a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Motors, is the only large-scale automaker in the Netherlands. Based in Born on a 927,000 m2 site, it has a capacity of approximately 200,000 vehicles, and produced its millionth vehicle, a Mitsubishi Space Star, on October...
  
  , owned by Mitsubishi Motors
  Mitsubishi Motors
  is a multinational automaker headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. In 2009 it was the fifth-largest Japan-based automaker and the 17th-largest in the world measured by production...
  
  
• Norfolkline
  Norfolkline
  Norfolkline was a European ferry operator and logistics company owned by Maersk. It provided freight ferry services on the English channel, Irish Sea, and the North Sea; and passenger ferry services on the English channel and Irish Sea; and logistics services across Europe...
  
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• Numico
  Numico
  Numico , is a specialist baby food and clinical nutrition subsidiary of Groupe Danone. Products range from infant formula to specialised nutrition for babies with specific needs and for breastfeeding mothers. It also produces and markets special clinical nutrition, diet products and...
  
  , part of Groupe Danone
  Groupe Danone
  Groupe Danone is a French food-products multinational corporation based in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It claims world leadership in fresh dairy products, marketed under the corporate name, and also in bottled water...
  
  
• P&O Nedlloyd
  P&O Nedlloyd
  P&O Nedlloyd Container Line Limited was an Anglo-Dutch worldwide ocean-going container shipping line, with dual headquarters in London and Rotterdam. The company was formed in 1997 by the merger of the container-shipping interests of the leading Dutch transportation company Royal Nedlloyd and the...
  
  , part of Maersk
• SABIC Europe, part of SABIC
  SABIC
  SABIC is a diversified manufacturing company, active in chemicals and intermediates, industrial polymers, fertilizers and metals. It is the largest public company in Saudi Arabia as listed in Tadawul, but the Saudi government still owns 70% of its shares...
  
  
• Stad Rotterdam Verzekeringen
  Stad Rotterdam Verzekeringen
  Stad Rotterdam Verzekeringen was the name of a Dutch insurance company, founded in 1720. Until the merger with Fortis it was the oldest European mainland insurance company, at that time only Lloyd's of London was older. The full name of the original company was "Maatschappij ter discontering ende...
  
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• VDL Bus International
  VDL Bus International
  VDL Bus Chassis is a Netherlands-based bus builder which originated from the bus-building business of DAF.Originally named DAF Bus International after being separated from the truck-building business of DAF, it joined the United Bus in 1990...
  
  
• Versatel
  Versatel
  Tele2 Netherlands Holding N.V. is a listed telecommunications company operating on the Dutch and Belgian market. It has more than 1,900 employees and over 1 million customers...
  
  , owned by Tele2
  Tele2
  Tele2 AB is a major European telecommunications operator, with about 34 million customers in 11 countries. It serves as a fixed-line telephone operator, cable television provider, mobile phone operator and Internet service provider.- Overview :...
  
  
• Vodafone Netherlands
  Vodafone Netherlands
  Vodafone Netherlands, part of the Vodafone Group is the third largest mobile phone company in the Netherlands, and was previously called Libertel. The mobile phone system uses GSM 900 and GSM 1800...
  
  , part of Vodafone
  Vodafone
  Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...
  
  

Defunct companies

• Fokker
  Fokker
  Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919....
  
  
• Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie
  Dutch East India Company
  The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...
  
  , VOC or Dutch East India Company
  Dutch East India Company
  The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...
  
  
• West-Indische Compagnie
  Dutch West India Company
  Dutch West India Company was a chartered company of Dutch merchants. Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx...
  
  , WIC or Dutch West India Company
  Dutch West India Company
  Dutch West India Company was a chartered company of Dutch merchants. Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx...