11 Of The Most Secretive Companies In The World

From HuffPo: Some companies go to great lengths to stay under the radar. Whether that's to protect a secret recipe, strange business practice or simply due to eccentric personalities depends on the company. What's clear is that the below companies love to maintain an air of mystery.  Here are 11 of the most secretive companies in the world:..

1.      Tootsie Roll - We all may be familiar with Tootsie Roll's "How many licks" slogan, as well as the taste of its famous candy, but the company's business practices are largely kept under wraps. Tootsie Roll hasn't offered clues to its succession plan even though its CEO is in his 90s, according to the Wall Street Journal. In addition, the last analyst to follow the company stopped last year because it was too difficult to get information –

2.      Coca-Cola - Coca-Cola is notorious for taking great pains to guard the recipe to its elixer. Only two of the company's top executives knows the formula, which Coke claims has stayed secret since 1886, according to the Guardian. And those two executives can't travel together for fear they'll go down together, the recipe with them.

3.      Bridgewater - Bridgewater, the insanely successful hedge fund, was also insanely secretive, at least until financial gossip site Dealbreaker got a copy of its principles, which the company had taken pains to keep hush-hush, according to the New Yorker. "Bridgewater is a cult. It's isolated, it has a charismatic leader and it has its own dogma," a former co-worker of Ray Dalio, the company's CEO, told a hedge fund magazine.

4.      Apple - Apple is so secretive that there is essentially an entire industry built around creating, spreading and debunking rumors about the company. But Apple gave a small window into its secret world; many of the documents released during the Apple, Samsung patent dispute photos and prototypes illustrating how its devices are made, according The New York Times…...

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