Today Apple is a leading manufacturer of mobile phones, software, players, and tablets. The history of Apple is certainly connected with Steve Jobs. Today, the equipment produced by the corporation is highly valued for its impeccable quality. Currently, the total value of the corporation is estimated at more than 500 billion US dollars. The company carefully monitors trends in IT technologies and implements them into the production process. Surely readers of the site will be interested in the history of the creation and development of the company.
History of the name
The official date of birth of the organization is April 1, 1976. It was on this day that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built their first computer by hand. It was called Apple Computer. You should understand how the company got the name Apple.
First Apple Computer
There are several versions. One of them is Jobs's desire for the name to be more conveniently located in the telephone directory. So the “name” of the company occupied a line immediately below the name of the Atari organization, which was developing computer games. In addition, the apple symbolizes the fight for the preservation of nature and the environment, and the corporation was the first in the world to use old consumables to produce new equipment.
History of the logo
The history of the creation of the Apple logo is quite interesting. Its original symbol was a man sitting under a tree with a falling apple above his head. It becomes immediately clear that this picture depicted the great scientist Isaac Newton. Most likely, there were also references in the Bible, because a bitten apple symbolizes temptation. It is worth noting that Macintosh computer models were named after a variety of apples that the developer of this product line was very fond of.
Apple's first logo
However, the original logo was not memorable and was not suitable for mass sales. Then the story of the creation of the Apple logo moves into a different direction. The company's designer (Rob Yanovu) was walking down the street when he stopped by a local supermarket and bought some apples. Arriving home, he began to cut them and examine them from different angles, after which he depicted one monochrome fruit. True, for some reason he drew the apple slightly bitten.
Jobs liked Rob's sketch, but decided it would be better to color the apple. The head of the advertising agency was against this decision, because at that time printing using color ink was many times more expensive than it is now. However, Steve insisted on his own, and soon the apple that everyone knows today appeared on computers.
The evolution of the Apple logo
The colors for this were chosen in random order. The only thing Jobs insisted on was that a green tint should decorate the design at the top. The type of fruit did not change until 1998. However, then logos painted in black, white and silver began to be placed on the devices. This is the history of the Apple logo.
First computers
In the spring of 1976, the Apple Computer I model appeared in American hardware stores, costing $666.66. Over the course of several months, its creators collect and sell 175 items of goods. Outwardly, it looked like a motherboard with no sound, no case, no keyboard. The following year, Michael Scott began to occupy the post of director of the company.
A new model appears, which was called the Apple II. It was the first PC equipped with color graphics. At this stage, the history of Apple's development takes a new turn. The equipment had special commands for working with sound, as well as a small built-in speaker. In addition, a power supply and keyboard were available. At that time, the computer became a real breakthrough, and its sales for the first time in the history of PCs exceeded a million units. It is worth mentioning that until 1993, more than 5 million models were assembled and sold. Initially, options with an 8-bit operating system were developed, and a little later 16-bit computers appeared on sale.
Apple II model
Lisa and Macintosh
Beginning in 1979, Apple brand employee Jeff Raskin began working on a new PC, which was named Macintosh. In fact, this was the first technology whose monoblock contained everything an average user needed to work. At the same time, in 1983, another model appeared on the household appliances market. She was named Lisa - that was the name of Steve Jobs' daughter. However, unfortunately, it did not become popular and in demand.
Model Lisa
The beginning of the 80s turned out to be quite a difficult time for the company. Due to regular absenteeism, Steve Jobs was forced to fire forty company employees. At the same time, Apple Computer was launched for an initial IPO and the owners began to sell shares on one of the largest financial exchanges in the world - NASDAQ. However, this step did not have the desired effect and articles began to appear in newspapers reporting the imminent decline of the corporation.
The situation began to change in 1983, when a talented top manager named Scully John became the president of the organization. Before working at Apple, he successfully managed the affairs of PepsiCo. True, friction immediately began between him and Steve Jobs.
On January 22, 1984, the first Macintosh was introduced to the public, radically changing the way ordinary people viewed personal computers. This event became a new milestone in the history of Apple Corporation. By the way, an advertising clip, filmed specifically for the release of the Macintosh based on the plot of D. Orwell’s work, was awarded the Grand Prix in Cannes. Even today it is considered one of the most original commercials in history.
First Macintosh
The model received the prefix 512K and began to be sold at a price of 2,495 US dollars. Its creators try to make a technique that any user who does not have the proper qualifications can master in a matter of minutes. True, the first Mac OS microprocessors were not very powerful and efficient. They lacked such things as, for example, the ability to simultaneously solve many problems and protected memory. However, over time, developers eliminated these shortcomings, and the Macintosh was able to compete with other similar technology.
Time passed, and the need arose to create a new operating system. Having carefully considered all the nuances, the company's owners decided to use modern developments from a company called NeXT in their new computers. It used an operating system under the general name UNIX. The next system was called Mac OS X and was designed so that users could smoothly migrate from older models to new ones.
The departure and return of Steve Jobs
In 1985, Apple's history was at a turning point. It was at this time that the President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan, awarded Steve Wozniacki and Steve Jobs a medal for a powerful breakthrough in IT technology. At the same time, Jobs, who is the ideological inspirer of the corporation, leaves it, having quarreled with members of the board of directors. At the same time, sales of personal computers and the value of the company's shares plummet. Experts attribute this precisely to the departure of Jobs, because he was able to advertise the technology he was creating in a very original way. Many believe that this will be the end of Apple's development story.
Ronald Reagan presents Steve Jobs with a medal for a powerful breakthrough in IT technology. 1985
In the period from 1995 to 1997, the development, assembly and sale of equipment began to cause serious losses. At the end of the 90s, their amount tended to 2 billion US dollars. The board of directors decides to ask Steve Jobs to return to the corporation.
Revolution in the 2000s
In 2001, the iPod audio player appeared on the computer market. Thanks to its capabilities, this compact media player instantly gained well-deserved popularity. In 2003, an online store opened online that sold music and listened to it in the players of this manufacturer. The newly opened supermarket was called the iTunes Store. In 2007, the corporation demonstrated a new development - the company's first mobile phone, called the iPhone. Since then, the popularity of the device has been growing every year, and its sales have broken all records. Since 2008, another online store has appeared on the network. It's called the App Store. The principle of operation and payment system of the resource is not much different from iTunes.
The first iPod audio player
Appearance of the first iPhone
As of 2010, the company has unquestioned authority among computer equipment manufacturers. It was at this time that the first tablet computer, called the iPad, went on sale. In the first month of its release, more than 1 million copies were sold. From this moment on, the corporation's success story leaves no doubt about the genius of the brand's creators.
This is what the first iPad looks like
Since 2011, Apple has become the most valuable commercial organization in the world. True, its owners failed to establish themselves at this peak for a long time. In 2013, its factories began producing 64-bit chips designed to work with ARM architecture. The company produces a 2-core microprocessor, which was named A7. In 2014, compact portable Apple Watch devices appeared on the electronics market.
Apple Watch
Acquisition of companies and appearance in Russia
Naturally, such a large giant as Apple acquired shares of smaller organizations. So, from 1996 to 2012, the corporation absorbed such companies as NeXT, P. A. Semi, Quattro Wireless, Siri, Anobit Technologies.
The success story of the concern in Russia begins in 2005, when the first Russian Apple Center store opened. Just two years later, in 2007, the company’s official representative office was opened in the country. In 2012, the owners of the corporation registered the Apple Rus company, which to this day is engaged in retail and wholesale sales of electronic equipment.
The first Apple store in Moscow
How is the company doing today?
During the development of the company, it experienced both successes and severe failures. Today, in order to manage such a giant, its own corporate culture has been specially developed. Before starting to create new device models, management clearly defines the responsibilities and roles of each employee. Any product of the company is developed in an atmosphere of strict secrecy.
The company also has its own sales concept. It clearly describes how stores should be decorated. For managers and sellers, principles of trading in equipment and psychological techniques used on buyers have been compiled.
Sellers are dressed in blue uniforms. Before starting their duties, they must complete a 14-day training course. During their work, managers undergo additional training. In addition, they are trained to use services to diagnose devices.
While still alive, Steve Jobs independently developed the company's advertising strategy. Today, tablet computers, mobile phones, audio players, and watches come out of Apple assembly lines. In addition, specialists are constantly working to improve the software.
In 2016, the company’s management made an interesting statement that soon the concern’s technology would operate on the principle of end-to-end encryption. Its essence lies in the signal transmission algorithm: data will be encoded on users’ gadgets, then transmitted to the receiving equipment and decoded. This innovation is connected with the fact that people are increasingly talking about tracking citizens by the US government.
Everyone has heard about such a legendary and incredibly popular thing now as, and many are the happy owners of this gadget. However, not everyone is familiar with its history. It is not surprising that users often wonder who created the iPhone. Usually only one common surname comes to mind, which is on everyone’s lips. But it turns out that everything was much more interesting, and in fact, several people were the inventors of the “apple miracle”.
What is the name of the creator of the iPhone?
If you ask any person to name the creator of the iPhone, he will probably say that it was Steve Jobs. And he will be absolutely right, since it was this person who was the “brain” and inspirer of the team that worked on the gadget, and most of the innovative and revolutionary ideas belong to him. However, a significant intellectual contribution was also made by Apple Vice President Jonathan Ive and its technical specialists. And the very concept of the new phone was proposed by John Casey, who gave management the idea of fitting a media player, a telephone, and a number of other functions into one device at the same time. Therefore, it is a mistake to think that when answering the question of who is the creator of the iPhone, one should only mention Jobs’ last name. After all, he himself repeatedly emphasized that he could not have achieved this without his close-knit team of enthusiasts.
Key milestones in the history of the famous “apple miracle”According to the project proposed by John Casey, a prototype of the iPhone was created, which was essentially an improved Motorola with software from Apple. The new product was born in 2005 and did not arouse much interest among users. It became clear that the concept needed to be radically changed, which is what Jobs and his colleagues did. This time, the team did not resort to the help of partners and kept all their developments in strict confidence; moreover, members of the engineering group did not even contact each other so as not to interfere. Two years later, at the next internal corporate meeting, Jobs held an unscheduled presentation of a new device with a touch screen, innovative communication characteristics and Internet connection. After this, it became clear to even the most inveterate skeptics that a real bestseller had been born. After all, immediately after their release in 2007 in the United States, the first iPhone models were swept off the shelves like hot cakes, and literally a couple of months later they began to be sold in Europe, and then throughout the world. The releases of all subsequent generations of the gadget were no less popular.
Where was the iPhone created?
The question of where the iPhone comes from is also very interesting. After all, if it was invented by Americans, then it is logical to assume that it was created in America. And this is partly true, since it is in the USA, in the state of California, in the town of Cooperton, that the head technical, engineering and marketing center of the Apple company is located, where they work on developing and improving the design of the gadget and developing 
strategies for its promotion in the market. They also test already released models to understand where the shortcomings are hidden and how they can be eliminated in the next generation models. But from the very beginning, the material shell for iPhones began to be created far beyond American borders - in a country known for its developed production infrastructure and cheap labor, that is, in China. Here, on the very border with Hong Kong, in Guadong province, in the city of Shenzhen, there is the Foxonn plant, where the first apple gadgets were created. And currently, most iPhones are also assembled at this plant.
Domestic users of Apple devices believe that their mobile phones come from the USA, Japan, Taiwan - anywhere, but not from China. Russians have long had an extremely negative image of Chinese production - as if they do everything “on the knees”, in conditions of terrible unsanitary conditions and prefer quantity to quality.
This is actually a misconception. In China, the situation is the same as in other countries (for example, in Russia): there are underground production facilities that assemble penny devices from low-grade components, and there are also official factories whose assembly lines produce first-class products.
Apple produces the iPhone and iPad in cooperation with China, but this is by no means a reason to hang offensive labels on Apple devices.
iPhones and iPads are developed at Apple's head office, which is located in the American state of California, in the city of Cupertino. This is confirmed by the inscription that is present on the rear edges of all Apple devices: “ Designed by Apple in California».
The following activities are performed at Apple headquarters:
Mobile market experts claim that 99% of the total contribution to the creation of Apple gadgets is made by the employees of the Cupertino office - despite the fact that many of these employees have never seen how the devices are assembled.
Where are iPhones assembled?
The plant of the Taiwanese company Foxconn is where iPhones are made for Russia and other countries. The Foxconn plant is located in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. He has been collaborating with Apple since 2007. Apple is not the only company that partners with Foxconn; a giant Chinese factory produces almost 40% (!) of the world's electronics.
The Foxconn factory area is 5.6 million square meters. km, number of employees – 1 million 250 thousand people. Every day, 400 thousand new iPhones roll off the Foxconn assembly line, each of which fully meets the high standards set by Apple.
Foxconn has been repeatedly accused of forcing its employees to work in truly slave-like conditions. Chinese workers allegedly spend 12-14 hours at work, 6 days a week, eat rations of food sold on the streets, and are also discriminated against by their Taiwanese colleagues. Apple conducted many audits, which resulted in the discovery that most of the accusations of violation of labor laws are unfounded.
Buyers often wonder: why doesn’t the Apple company produce gadgets in its own country? There are many reasons for this:
- Americans are too highly educated. In the United States, there is a shortage of citizens with secondary technical education who are able and willing to perform routine, monotonous operations every day.
- Chinese labor is quite cheap. The salary of a Foxconn employee is 300 – 400 dollars per month. An American would have to pay four or five times more.
- The USA has high taxes. If iPhones were assembled in America, then due to additional insurance and taxes, the final cost of the Apple product would be doubled.
- China produces the lion's share of rare earth metals, which are necessary when creating mobile gadgets. If Apple were to move its smartphone production to another country, it would have to negotiate exports with China—not an easy task.
Foxconn has factories not only in China, but also in other countries - in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and India. In 2010, the factory was opened in Russia - in the village of Shushary, Leningrad Region. Now there is information that Foxconn is going to build a plant in the USA. Who knows - perhaps this is the first step towards starting the production of native American iPhones?
Who supplies components for iPhones?
Workers at the Foxconn plant assemble iPhones from components that are sourced from many countries. There are no Chinese components in Apple devices, but there are American ones. Among them:
- Audio chips are manufactured in the USA by Cirrus Logic.
- Radio modules are produced by the famous company Qualcomm.
- Controller chips are created by American organizations PMC Sierra and Broadcom Corp.
- Touch Screen Controllers – Also manufactured by Broadcom Corp.
Other components are supplied by European and Asian manufacturers - for example:
- Induction coils - Japanese company TDK.
- RAM - Taiwanese organization TSMC.
- Gyroscopes - Italian-French company STMicroelectronics.
The situation with iPhone displays is interesting. Now 3 companies produce this component for the Apple company - Japanese Japan Display and Sharp, as well as Korean Display. However, for the iPhone 8th and 9th modifications, Apple plans to purchase panels only from Samsung - and in huge quantities.
Among the suppliers of components for the iPhone there is a “full” international. Apple prefers to work with trusted and reputable component manufacturers, regardless of the countries in which their factories are located.
What is the cost of an iPhone?
Experts from IHS Markit, immediately after the release of the iPhone 7 in 2016, tried to calculate the cost of an Apple device by adding up the costs of all its components, including:
- A10 Fusion processor – $26.9.
- Intel module – $33.9.
- Cameras – $19.9.
- Electromechanical components – $16.7.
According to expert calculations, the cost of the iPhone 7 turned out to be equal to 220 dollars (approximately 13 thousand rubles). The market value of the Apple gadget at the time of inspection was $649 - 37 thousand rubles at the current exchange rate. It is worth saying that this price was relevant for the USA. In Russia, the seventh iPhone even now costs 50 thousand rubles. It’s easy to calculate that in our country, the rate of promotion on Apple devices is almost fourfold.
It is curious that the difference in cost between iPhones of different generations is very small. Let's look at the diagram:
The cost of the iPhone 7 is only $8 higher than that of the iPhone 6S – in fact, 500 rubles. Gadgets of the same generation, but of different modifications (for example, 5 and 5S), as a rule, require equal costs for components. But what was most surprising was that the iPhone SE turned out to be the most economical smartphone in the Apple line (cost price: $160). Even the iPhone 3GS was more expensive to produce.
Conclusion
In 2016, Donald Trump, entering the presidential race, announced that he would force Apple to produce iPhones in the United States. If this day comes, then for Russian fans of Apple products it will definitely become “black” - the final cost of an iPhone created by American workers on American soil will be “unaffordable” for Russians.
Now Russian users can afford to buy Apple products only because they are assembled in China. By collaborating with the Chinese, Apple saves on labor resources. A worker from a developed country in America or Europe would not agree to work for an amount three times greater than what a native from the Middle Kingdom receives.
Is it really difficult to look at open and completely official data from the register of shareholders? There is nothing simpler, and we can easily do it ourselves:
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 5.68%
State Street Corporation 4.11%
FMR, LLC 3.07%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. 2.72%
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation 1.42%
Northern Trust Corporation 1.39%
BlackRock Fund Advisors 1.21%
Amazing. discovery, but Carl Icahn is not even among the ten largest shareholders of Apple! Who are these mysterious real owners?
In first place is Vanguard Group - for the uninitiated reader, and for many economists, the name is unfamiliar, although in any reference book you can find information that the company controls assets of as much as 2 trillion dollars ($2000 billion). Which is three times the cost of the same Apple! These are such modest people. In fact, the amount of assets under their control is several times larger, but we will look at this later.
Before moving on to further analysis of the shareholder structure and ownership, we should make a short digression.
The ideals of democracy(C) and the media image that serves as a screen for the true owners do not sit well with the fact that all of the world's largest companies are owned by the same few people. How to hide this obvious contradiction? Everything is very simple - you need to create the appearance that there are supposedly many owners (shareholders) and they are all “different”.
Indeed, how can the “masters of the world” have a measly 5-6% of shares? Any liberal will laugh in your face if you tell him this. The fact that these “measly six percent” are worth forty to fifty billion dollars does not bother anyone - with such a modest package it is guaranteed to appoint its own CEO. For complete control of a company with a turnover of hundreds of billions of dollars, twenty percent is required - no more is needed, since it is impossible for competitors to collect a packet of more than 20% (it will cost under a hundred yards).
And suddenly, some Chinese will buy as much as seven percent of the shares and they will be able to run everything in the largest American company?
“This shouldn’t happen!” - the real masters of the world decided a long time ago and hedged their bets.
To understand how they exercised total control and maintained the appearance of the absence of one owner, we return to our list of shareholders. In second place is the company:
State Street Corporation - owns 4.11%
And who are they, the ordinary reader will ask? And again Google (yahoo) helps us:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=STT+Major+Holders
And who are its largest shareholders?
1.Massachusetts Financial Services Co (Canadian insurance company - who owns it confusingly)
2.Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc - 7%
3.Vanguard Group (where would we be without him!) - 6%
4. BlackRock (coming soon!) - 5%
Let's take an even deeper look at who is the shareholder of Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc
and we see the same acquaintances: Vanguard and BlackRock (remember this name, it often appears, going hand in hand with our main character)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=TRow+Major+Holders
That is, in exactly the same manner, the monster Vanguard controls the second main shareholder of Apple! A simple trick and ten percent of the apple's shares are already in your pocket. But that's not all!
In the top ten there are two companies with a similar name BlackRock &BlaBla and the third time the name BlackRock is mentioned in State Street shareholders. (by the way, Vanguard has dozens of such subsidiaries - so it’s not a fact that we can count all of their holdings even approximately - even the largest ones)
Naturally, among the owners of BlackRock we find all the same people: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=BLK
Add another four percent and we already get 14% of all Apple shares held by one company - Vanguard! And again, that's not all.
What else is left among the dummy owners of Yablouk?
FMR LLC (Fidelity Management and Research), Fidelity Investments, similarly, we will find exactly identical names among the shareholders: Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and so on.
That is, Fidelity is again controlled by Vanguard Group!
Total: a “modest” 17% in the piggy bank.
A remarkable scheme of mutual ownership and cross-shareholding. And if any of the shareholders seems not to be directly connected with Vanguard, then its shareholders are definitely under their control, and even in the third iteration (level) the same will happen.
That is, Vanguard:
1. Officially - the main shareholder of Apple. For comparison, the clown who publicly portrays Apple's largest shareholder, Carl Icahn, has only 1% of the shares, which is five times less than this one package.
2. Vanguard also has the largest stakes in almost all other companies that own large shares of Apple. But even that is not enough!
3. Vanguard not only owns the largest blocks of shares, but also controls the shareholders of the companies from point 2.!!!
And in conclusion, a quote from Tatyana Volkova’s blog on the topic:
About the octopus, the pyramid - and in general a continuation about Vanguard
This is the picture that has emerged so far in the investigation. The largest companies in the world are Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Let's see who their largest shareholders are. Bank of America: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), Paulson, JP Morgan, T. Rowe, Capital World Investors, AXA, Bank of NY, Mellon.
JP Morgan: State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, FMR, BlackRock, T. Rowe, AXA, Capital World Investor, Capital Research Global Investor, Northern Trust Corp. and Bank of Mellon.
Citigroup: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Paulson, FMR, Capital World Investor, JP Morgan, Northern Trust Corporation, and Fairhome Capital Mgmt and Bank of NY Mellon.
Wells Fargo: Berkshire Hathaway, FMR, State Street, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, BlackRock, Wellington Mgmt, AXA, T. Rowe and Davis Selected Advisers.
Then check for yourself. The largest financial companies are fully controlled by ten institutional and/or stock shareholders, from which a core of four companies can be identified that are present in all cases and in all decisions: Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street. They all 'own each other', but if you carefully balance the shareholdings, you will find that in reality Vanguard controls all of these partners or 'competitors', that is, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street.
Now let's look at the 'tip of the iceberg'. That is, a few, selected as the largest, companies in various industries controlled by these 'Big Four', and upon closer examination, simply Vanguard Corporation: Alcoa Inc.
Altria Group Inc., American International Group Inc., AT&T Inc., Boeing Co., Caterpillar Inc., Coca-Cola Co., DuPont & Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., General Electric Co., General Motors Corporation, Hewlett- Packard Co., Home Depot Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co., McDonald's Corp., Merck & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp., 3M Co., Pfizer Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., United Technologies Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, CBS Corporation, NBC Universal...
If the stock price of a corporation, as the investor and major shareholder of the company insists, Apple(Carl Icahn), after the recent fall will soar from the current $130 to $216, security holders will become richer by more than half a trillion dollars. Who exactly would hypothetically get such a colossal pile of money?
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U Apple“nothing at all,” according to official figures, is a little more than $200 billion, and most of the funds from the entire $700 billion company actually belong to the owners of its shares. Among them are almost all the bosses of the apple corporation itself, many of the powerful and rich of this world, plus the same odious investor Mr. Icahn, who believes that these securities are greatly undervalued. An important point is that he has nothing to do with sales of the iPhone model range, nor does he care about the facility in Cupertino itself - the financier talks directly about virtual wealth. After all, if each share increases in price, he will potentially earn a lot, a lot. 
In fact, this is a drop in the bucket, because he is referred to in the media as “the largest holder of Apple securities” Carl Icahn, according to the shareholder register, owns only 1% of the shares. You don’t need to remember the shares of Federighi and others at all - a huge value for a person, but insignificant amounts on the scale of all corporations. But who then controls the really large blocks of Apple shares?
The answer can be found in the same document:
1.
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 5.68%;
2
. State Street Corporation 4.11%;
3.
FMR, LLC 3.07%;
4.
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. 2.72%;
5.
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation 1.42%;
6.
Northern Trust Corporation 1.39%;
7.
BlackRock Fund Advisors 1.21%
And then it’s worth turning to the calculations of researchers from the cont.ws portal, who decided to dig deeper. After all, behind each of the names on this list there is an extensive network of commercial structures, whose own shares are also traded on the stock exchange. And that means, in turn, they belong to someone - the strings stretch very bizarrely, but not at all chaotically.
On the contrary, State Street Corporation, second on the list, has a list of its own main shareholders as follows: Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc (7%), Vanguard Group (6%) and BlackRock (5%). Moreover, according to the Yahoo! directory, Vanguard Group controls the main stake in Price (T. Rowe), and the second most important owner of the securities of this company is State Street Corporation. Yes, yes, the same corporation, whose 7% shares belong to Price (T. Rowe) - this is such mutual assistance.
The familiar name BlackRock refers to a legion of subsidiaries and funds, most of which have the same Vanguard Group and State Street Corporation as leading shareholders. As journalists calculated, in the case of Apple the first company concentrated at least 17% of all its shares through similar indirect methods. Actually, it’s not surprising, since it has long penetrated all the dominant financial empires of the planet. And besides Apple and IT giants, controls the money of everyone, everyone, everyone.
