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Big business is a pejorative term referring to the wielding of excessive power by large businesses.
Big business involves large-scale corporate-controlled financial or business activities. As a term, it describes activities that run from "huge transactions" to the more general "doing big things". The concept first rose in a symbolic sense after 1880 in connection with the combination movement that began in American business at that time. United States corporations that fall into the category of "big business" as of 2015 include ExxonMobil, Walmart, Google, Microsoft, Apple, General Electric, General Motors, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase. The largest German corporations as of 2012 included Daimler AG, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, and Deutsche Bank. Among the largest companies in the United Kingdom as of 2012 are HSBC, Barclays, WPP plc, and BP. The latter half of the 19th century saw more technological advances and corporate growth in additional sectors, such as petroleum, machinery, chemicals, and electrical equipment.
Big Business may also refer to:
- Big Business (1924 film), an Our Gang short
- Big Business (1929 film), a Laurel and Hardy short
- Big Business (1930 film), a British comedy film
- Big Business (1934 film), a British comedy film directed by Cyril Gardner
- Big Business (1937 film), an American film
- Big Business (1988 film), a Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin film farce
- Big Business (band), a band from Seattle
- "Big Business", song from Three 6 Mafia's 1998 album CrazyNDaLazDayz
- "Big Business", song from David Byrne's score for The Catherine Wheel (album)
Big Business is a 1924 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 22nd Our Gang short subject released.
Big Business is a 1929 silent Laurel and Hardy comedy short subject directed by James W. Horne and supervised by Leo McCarey from a McCarey (uncredited) and H. M. Walker script. The film, largely about tit-for-tat vandalism between Laurel and Hardy as Christmas tree salesmen and the man who rejects them, was deemed culturally significant and entered into the National Film Registry in 1992.
Big Business is a 1930 British musical film directed by Oscar M. Sheridan and starring Frances Day, Barrie Oliver and Virginia Vaughan. It was made at the Twickenham Film Studios in London.
