Caterpillar’s global reach and presence in unmatched in the industry. We serve customers in more than 180 countries around the globe with more than 300 products. More than half of our sales are outside the United States. Our manufacturing, marketing, logistics, service, R&D and related facilities along with our dealer locations total more than 500 locations worldwide, insuring that we remain geographically close to our global customer base.

Cisco’s Global Policy and Government Affairs (GPGA) team develops and influences pro-technology public policies and regulations. Working collaboratively with industry stakeholders, association partners, and government leaders, GPGA builds relationships with government leaders to influence policies that affect Cisco’s business and overall IT adoption, helping to shape policy decisions at a global, national, and local level.

The hallmark of GE’s approach to public policy is thought leadership. We seek to inform discussions by promoting thoughtful civil discourse, grounded in strong, reasoned analysis.

Our company was founded in California, but our mission is to facilitate access to information for the entire world and in every language. To this end, we have offices in more than 60 countries, maintain more than 180 Internet domains, and serve more than half of our results to people living outside the United States.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe that it is important to encourage the development of sound public policy, worldwide. With good policy, we can better serve doctors, nurses and patients, our employees and our communities around the globe. Johnson & Johnson advocates for a variety of important policy positions before governments. Around the world we consistently lobby for enhancement to healthcare systems. We also monitor and engage on business policies, as well as a range of emerging scientific issues such as green chemistry and product stewardship.

Today we operate in more than 160 countries around the globe. Through our suppliers, shippers, retailers and other service providers, we directly or indirectly employ nearly one million people. That includes more than 35,000 Nike employees across six continents, each of whom make their own contribution to fulfill our mission statement: to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.

PepsiCo believes that both as a Company and as individuals it is important to be engaged in the public policy and political arena. PepsiCo’s Public Policy/Government Affairs team works with senior management to develop annual and long term public policy priorities.

For Stora Enso global responsibility means taking concrete and proactive measures to improve the environmental and social responsibility of our operations together with our stakeholders. We have robust governance and management practices in place to ensure that social and environmental aspects are duly taken into account in our every day operations, as well as in our business decisions.

Total is the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company, a world class chemicals manufacturer. Total operates in more than 130 countries and has 96 104 employees.

We hold regular discussions with political leaders, public servants, interest groups and non-governmental organizations all over the world. We offer advice and information to the public about the potential of wind power, both in individual markets and worldwide. During 2011 Vestas engaged with policy makers in the USA, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Spain, the UK, India, South Africa, Kenya and numerous other countries, advocating reforms and providing best practice experience.

The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. In 2011, the Group increased the number of vehicles delivered to customers to 8.265 million (2010: 7.203 million), corresponding to a 12.3 percent share of the world passenger car market.