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Sample Company Article

Company articles should contain:

• A brief overview of the relevant company, how big it is, and what it does.
• A rough appraisal of their attitude towards consumer protection. The exact form of this is not yet established. Feel free to make a proposal for some kind of scale on which a company's attitude towards consumer protection can be measured.
• A short paragraph for each of the very largest controversies relevant to that entity.
• A list or table directing users to the pages covering their controversies and practices, or to their product line pages in the case of a very large company.

For companies which are very large, such as Apple or Sony, it may make sense to not have a list of everything they’ve ever done all on their home page, instead linking to their various product lines, which then have the controversy lists. Subsidiary companies should have their own pages when they are sufficiently distinct from the main entity (e.g., while Škoda Auto may be a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, it is sufficiently distinct to warrant its own company page). Such relationships should be documented where they exist.