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apatride
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Hi!
I have now been surfing for quite a long, to find large ( non-banking or insurance) companies based in Amsterdam or very near by ( no more than 30/40 km)
The official economics institutions don't help me at all, either they don't answer or ask for money first for data ( in which nobody knows what it is about) and obviously expensive as it is made for companies.

everyone knows those: Canon, Nike, corporate offices or Heineken

but could you provide me some others important or big middle range companies based in Amsterdam.

please: note that I do speak English, German, French, Spanish and Italian fluently ....but no Dutch. Therefore the franca lingua in the company must not be Dutch. Probably English.

Thanks for your help any name with location or website will be welcome.

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thoughtcontrol001
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Amsterdam should have a chamber of commerce. Contact them to get a list of companies.

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apatride
apatride

Amsterdam has a chamber of commerce indeed, please swift me € 650 to buy the list as they generously offer to me.
btw, all chamber of commerce in Germany, France etc. don't provide you any information for free, it seems.

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thoughtcontrol001
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When I asked once the chamber of commerce in Munich, Germany, for a girlfriend, who wanted to change from one IT-company to another, I got a list for free.

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nrclibn
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http://www.forbes.com/global2000/list?country=Netherlands&industry=All&state=All</a>

Yeah, baby, I got mad search skillz (as well as attitude):
1) Google "corporate headquarters amsterdam"
2) Shrug, think "why not?" and pick the 1st result (Wikipedia)
3) Click numbered footnote about corporate headquarters
4) Click through link at footnote
5) Look over page, notice date is 2008
6) Shrug again, type "global 2000 netherlands" in search box
7) Click link for 2011 list

"Ambiguous, misleading, or poorly worded questions are par for the course."--Michael Feldman
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apatride
apatride

thoughtcontrol001

this quite funny because I study in Munich & Nürnberg and both chamber of commerce refuse to provide any information, when i was looking for Bavarian companies ( however to find a company in Bavaria is pretty easy i admit and no one need a list)
please note that the only 2 dynamic chamber of commerce I met, where the Spanish and the Czech one.
The worst being the French & the Romanian still working for Securitate apparently!

nrclibn thanks going to try your procedure, had try wikipedia already with enterprise ranking in Amsterdam but got only the 39 first which were mostly in south NL.

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nrclibn
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Apatride, unless the EU has very primitive (doubtful!) or unhelpful (maybe?) libraries, large companies should be listed in a reference directory (or several reference directories). The questions are
1) who owns copies of the directory
2) can you visit them to look at the directory and photocopy some pages
3) do they have a service for copying or scanning pages and sending them to you
4) is there something similar and free online.

You could try asking this English-language service from Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Also ask the largest public library, or the national library, in your current location. Let them know you have seen the Forbes list of large companies in the Netherlands. (Include the link so they know exactly what it is.) Also explain what data you want to find that is not on the Forbes list.

Best of luck.

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dr_who
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Since #6 brings up reference directories...

See link below, scroll down to the bottom.
http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/business/news2010/january/results-2009

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anonymous
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It lists almost all companies in Amsterdam, with it you'll find the adress, phonenumber and e-mail of the company.

http://amsterdam.sireh.com

good luck with your internship

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ribeira_sacra
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Dutch phone guide

"Slow down; travel less and see more" wise advise from ribeira_sacra
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