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Airbus is a major airline and military aircraft manufacturer that was created in 1970 to compete with Boeing with the help of generous subsidies from the British, French, German, and Spanish governments. The company has been investigated over corruption in Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, the Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. In 2020 the company paid out $4 billion to prosecutors in France, the United States and the United Kingdom to drop investigations and lawsuits into alleged bribery payments.

Founded in 1973, Alloheim began as a small family-owned nursing home in Bad Marienberg. Over the past almost 50 years, the private care home provider has increased to become Germany’s second-largest care provider with a staff of 22,000 working across its 242 care facilities. In 2019, Alloheim was bought by the Swedish buyout group Nordic Capital, which has sparked concerns about the increasing role of financial investors in healthcare. Alloheim has come under repeated criticism over the years for issues like understaffing, mistreatment of residents and poor living conditions including lack of food, mold on walls and poor hygiene.

Amazon is a retail behemoth whose real business is data – Big Data. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, the company relentlessly gathers data every time an individual uses its website or its voice assistant in order to be able to sell more stuff. It is infamous for its use of low paid warehouse workers and delivery drivers who are tasked with delivering a wide variety of products to online shoppers. It also owns one of the world’s largest clusters of ‘cloud’ computer networks (Amazon Web Services) that millions of individuals, businesses and government agencies use to host their data, including the Central Intelligence Agency.