Koch Industries | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

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00:02:05 1 History
00:02:14 1.1 Predecessor companies
00:03:49 1.2 Koch Industries
00:08:02 2 Subsidiaries
00:08:11 2.1 Arteva Europe S.a.r.l.
00:08:32 2.2 Flint Hills Resources LP
00:10:13 2.3 Georgia-Pacific
00:10:41 2.4 Guardian Industries
00:11:20 2.5 INVISTA
00:11:40 2.6 Koch Ag &amp; Energy Solutions
00:13:19 2.7 Koch Chemical Technology Group
00:13:48 2.8 Koch-Glitsch
00:14:17 2.8.1 Eta Process Plant
00:14:39 2.8.2 Koch Modular Process Systems
00:15:08 2.9 Koch Minerals
00:15:33 2.10 Koch Pipeline Company LP
00:18:50 2.11 Koch Supply &amp; Trading
00:19:06 2.12 Matador Cattle Company
00:20:12 2.13 Molex
00:20:40 3 Environmental and safety record
00:27:06 4 Political activity
00:30:39 5 See also



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Koch Industries, Inc.  is an American multinational corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest landowner in the Athabasca oil sands.The company is the second largest privately held company in the United States after Cargill, with annual revenue of $115 billion. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500.The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles and David Koch each own 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall, the daughter in-law of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith, and her children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company.The company has used its freedom from the pressures of public markets to make long term bets and Charles Koch has stated that the company would go public "over my dead body".