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Shell

London, United Kingdom · Founded 1890

Shell was founded in 1890 by Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted and Henri Deterding, and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Key facts

Legal form
public limited company
Employees
92,000 (2016)
Listed
London Stock Exchange
Revenue
USD 316,620,000,000 (2023)

About

British multinational oil and gas company

Founders

In context

We hold 5 other petroleum industry companies founded in the 1890s. 2 of them have closed, after a median of 120 years, and 3 have no closure recorded.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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