SHV Holdings is a privately owned Dutch trading company, regarded as one of the world's largest private trading groups. SHV is a highly diversified company, with interests in transport, retail, oil, food, Testing, Inspection & Certification and financial services .[2][3] It currently employs more than 64,860 people and is present in 70 countries.
History
1896–1939
On 1 April 1896, eight Dutch coal wholesalers merged to found the Steenkolen Handels-Vereniging (Coal-trading company), as a response to the formation of the German Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Kohlen-Syndikat).[4] By 1904, the company had secured exclusive rights to trade