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Wesfarmers Limited is one of Australia's largest public companies and one of Australia's largest retailers. Its headquarters are in Perth, Western Australia. Wesfarmers is the largest private employer in Australia, with approximately 205,000 employees across the country.〔 Official records announced a record net profit of $1.05 billion for 2006 with operating costs of $8.9 billion (prior to the Coles Group takeover). On 2 July 2007, Wesfarmers announced it was purchasing the Coles Group retail business for A$22 billion making it the largest successful take-over in Australian corporate history. Wesfarmers officially took control of Coles on 23 November 2007, after paying almost A$20 billion for the company. == History == The company was founded on 27 June 1914 as the Westralian Farmers Co-operative, which focused on the provision of services and merchandise to the Western Australian rural community.〔See Western Australian Farmers Federation for the relationship between the Co-operative and the CBH Group in its early history〕 It was involved in the operations of the Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia. In 1924, it established the first public radio station in Western Australia with 6WF before it passed into the hands of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1929. By the 1940s the company's work included "being wheat and general merchants; country distribution for Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd; wool, live stock, skin and produce auctioneers; grain & fruit exporters; insurance underwriters; acquiring agents for the wheat pool of W.A." Known as Westralian Farmers Limited, it had premises in various locations within the Perth central business district. In the 1940s there were premises at 563-571 Wellington Street. They also had premises at Newman Street in Fremantle. In 1991, 19 m³ of the records of the Westralian Farmers Co-operative were deposited with the J S Battye Library in Perth. The company changed its name to Wesfarmers Limited in 1984, coinciding with its restructuring from a co-operative to a public company when it was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wesfarmers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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