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Revision as of 18:52, 10 February 2011
Among the largest privately held corporations in the United States, Koch Industries is a diversified firm that lists its major industry interests as:[1] diversified into a number of industries:
- Process and Pollution Control Equipment and Technology
- Refining and Chemicals
- Minerals
- Fertilizers
- Polymers and Fibers
- Commodity Trading and Services
- Forest and Consumer Products
- Ranching
Its major owners are David Koch and Charles Koch. They and their foundations are major, if low-profile, contributors to American conservatism,[2] just as George Soros is a major contributor on the left. Americans for Prosperity, founded in 2003, by David Koch and Richard Fink, a Koch Industries board member, is a supporter of the Tea Party Movement.
References
- ↑ Industry Areas, Koch Industries
- ↑ Jane Mayer (30 August 2010), "Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama", New Yorker