Consumer goods, beverages, luxury, and retail companies.
Consumer majors pick forms with long track records and deep treaty networks.
Consumer goods, beverages and luxury groups favour Swiss AGs, Dutch N.V.s and UK plcs, forms that have survived a hundred years of tax and disclosure change. Nestlé and Richemont sit under Swiss law, Heineken under Dutch, with family or foundation shareholdings preserving control across generations. BrewDog is the outlier, showing how crowdfunded equity behaves when it meets conventional company law.
These profiles show which structures have absorbed a century of change, and where the control actually sits.
