THE ARCHIVE
One company a week, pulled at random from the FTSE All-World. Newest first.
Bosch Limited
The German parent belongs to a charity. The one listed slice sits in Bengaluru, making fuel pumps for tractors, sensors for motorbikes and spark plugs for the world.
Nov 3, 2026
Otsuka Holdings
Pocari Sweat is the famous part. Most of the money comes from medicines for the brain and the kidneys, and the company has just survived its second patent cliff.
Oct 27, 2026
Allianz
You've seen the logo at Twickenham and the Olympics. Behind it sit car insurance for millions, the 3am phone call when you fall ill abroad, and one of the biggest bond managers on earth.
Oct 20, 2026
Cummins
A century-old diesel-engine company from small-town Indiana turns out to sit at the centre of the AI data-centre boom.
Oct 13, 2026
Tata Steel
It poured India's first steel in 1912, gave its workers an eight-hour day before Britain did, and this year dug 44 million tonnes of its own iron out of its own ground.
Oct 6, 2026
ANZ
ANZ looks like an Australian high-street bank. Its largest profit engine is an institutional bank spanning nearly thirty markets, and you have owned a slice for years.
Sep 29, 2026
PZU
One provider files Poland's largest insurer under "developed", the other under "emerging". Either way, you have owned a slice for years.
Sep 22, 2026
Steel Dynamics
They built the world's first mini-mill of its kind for another company, then walked out to beat it. You have owned a piece of the result for years.
Sep 15, 2026
Fubon Financial Holding
Everyone knows the chipmaker. Far fewer know the family-built financial group that banks and insures half of Taiwan.
Sep 8, 2026
Techtronic Industries
Milwaukee, Ryobi and Hoover all share one Hong Kong parent, one German founder, and a battery that quietly locks you in for life.
Sep 1, 2026
Philips
You think lightbulbs and shavers. It sells the MRI scanner in your hospital. And the machine you may sleep beside nearly killed it.
Aug 25, 2026
Berkshire Hathaway
You own a car insurer, a railroad, a battery maker and a confectioner, all through one office in Omaha.
Aug 18, 2026
We uncover one per week. What they do, why they matter.