Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies

Also, Technochemie GmbH-Vetfahrenstechnik, Dossenheim, Germany is a member of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. 

Parent Company Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies... 

It is interesting to read what "captains of industry," such as the chairmen of prominent multinational companies, have to say about sustainable development. Sir Marc Moody-Stuart, former chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, stated in 1999 in Ref. [5] what sustainable development meant for his company "balancing our own legitimate commercial interests with the wider need to protect and enhance the environment and contribute to social progress and stability."... 

The expressions Shell and Group refers to the companies of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies. Each of the companies that make up the Royal Dutch / Shell Group of companies is an independent entity and has its own identity. 

In 1903, the Shell Transport and Trading Company and Royal Dutch merged together into the enterprise called Asiatic Petroleum Company. The partnership between these two enterprises worked so well that four years later, in 1907, it was extended to operations world-wide, with the creation of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. The two parent companies retained their separate businesses and own the Group, with more than 1,700 active companies, in the proportion of 60% to Royal Dutch Petroleum and 40% to Shell Transport and Trading Company. 

Source Reprinted from Long Range Planning, Robinson, S. J. Q., Hichens, R. E., and Wade, D. P., Planning a Chemical Company s Profits Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies - the Directional Policy Matrix, a Tool for Strategic Planning 1978, with permission from Elsevier. 

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