The Shell Transport and Trading Company and Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij (KNPM) joined in 1907 as the Koninklijke/Shell Group by transmitting their properties to two new corporations, the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM) and the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Ltd. The group, which has its headquarters at The Hague, is active in the distribution of petro leum but also of petrochemical products and natural gas. In 2005, the shareholders decided to merge the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij and Shell Transport and Trading into Royal Dutch Shell. Recently, some 11,000 of its 112,000 employees were working in the Netherlands.
Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands. EdwART. 2012.