BHP
BHP Group Limited (formerly known as BHP Billiton) is an Australian multinational mining and metals public company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
BHP Office Tower in Perth, Western Australia | |
| Company type | Public limited company |
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| ISIN | AU000000BHP4 |
| Industry | Metals and mining |
| Founded | 13 August 1885 (as the Broken Hill Proprietary Company) 29 June 2001 (as BHP Billiton) |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Area served | Global |
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| Products | Iron ore, coal, copper, gold, nickel, uranium |
| Revenue | US$60.817 billion (2021) |
| US$25.906 billion (2021) | |
| US$13.451 billion (2021) | |
| Total assets | US$108.927 billion (2021) |
| Total equity | US$51.264 billion (2021) |
Number of employees | 80,000 (2021) |
| Website | www |
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company was founded on 16 July 1885 in the mining town of Silverton, New South Wales. By 2017, BHP was the world's largest mining company, based on market capitalisation, and was Melbourne's third-largest company by revenue.
BHP Billiton was formed in 2001 through the merger of the Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) and the Anglo–Dutch Billiton plc trading on both the Australian and London Stock Exchanges as a dual-listed company.
In 2015, some BHP Billiton assets were demerged and rebranded as South32, while a scaled-down BHP Billiton became BHP. In 2018, BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton plc became BHP Group Limited and BHP Group plc, respectively. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, BHP Group was ranked as the 93rd-largest public company in the world. In January 2022, BHP relinquished its London Stock Exchange listing, becoming a solely Australian Securities Exchange-listed company. As of 2022, BHP is the largest company in Australia, and the largest mining company in the world, both as measured by market capitalisation.