N9. Vitol
The second company is Vitol.
Industry: Commodities
Headquarter: Rotterdam, Geneva
Revenue (USD billions): $307
Vitol is multinational company with services in energy and commodity trading. Henk Viëtor and Jacques Detige founded it in Rotterdam in 1996 having only 350 employees. I say only because the number of employees had grown over 15 times more since then.
The company is now in top three global transporters of petroleum products, with no more than 5.441 employees.
