Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You may not be driving Dutch cars or using Dutch cameras, but actually this country has a suprisingly large number of global companies considering its size. Its car industry (DAF) and its commercial aircraft industry (Fokker) are long gone, but everyone will be familiar with companies like Philips, Shell and Heineken, all of whom are among the top 5 in the world in their respective fields. Less known but equally important are companies like Unilever (if you live anywhere outside Antarctica, you probably have one of their products in your kitchen or bathroom), Randstad (one of the world's largest temp agencies), the big banks ING and ABN Amro and others. In addition to the indigenous Dutch companies, this is also one of the most popular locations (along with Belgium and the UK) for American or Asian companies to locate their EMEA headquarters. In the small town where my children go to school the main private employer is Nike, for example. Then you have Rotterdam, one of the world's busiest ports, and Schiphol, one of the world's busiest (and best, according to business traveller surveys) international airports. But all that goes out the window on a sunny Saturday in Amsterdam. There is an old saying that Rotterdam is a city for making money and Amsterdam one for spending it. This is less true today with an economy dominated by service industries, but there is certainly still a grain of truth in it. Nathan Craig Roberts wrote: >> "...with all of this emphasis on SEX, how does anything else get done >> in Amsterdam!!!" > > > Perhaps that's whey we're not driving around in our Dutch cars and > taking pictures with our Dutch cameras. :-) > > Craig > Washington, DC (a city with a mindset not dissimilar to Amsterdam's) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog