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The Fortune 500 is an annuallist compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by theirgross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude theimpact of excise taxes companies incur. The list includes publiclyand privately held companies for which revenues are publiclyavailable. The first Fortune 500 list was published in1955.
Wal-Mart was the largestcompany on the list in 2007 and 2008. ExxonMobil was in secondplace in 2007 and 2008, but overtook Wal-Mart in 2009. Wal-Martonce again regained the top spot in 2010. The revenue and profitnumbers are for the year previous to the named year: therefore the2010 list ranks companies by 2009 revenues.
Although the Fortune 500list is the most familiar one, similar gross revenue lists of thetop firms range from the highest ranking Fortune 100 including thetop one hundred to the broader ranking Fortune 1000 that includesthe top thousand firms. While the membership on the smaller listsare somewhat stable, the ranking on the lists may change over time,depending upon revenues and often, because of mergers among firmsalready listed.
The original Fortune 500 wasrestricted to companies whose revenues were derived frommanufacturing, mining, or energy exploration. At the same time,Fortune-published companion "Fortune 50" lists of the 50 largestcommercial banks (ranked by assets), utilities (ranked by assets),life insurance companies (ranked by assets), retailers (ranked bygross revenues) and transportation companies (ranked by revenues).These have been consolidated into one single list, so the Fortune500 as it exists today includes companies that in previous yearswould have been on one of the "Fortune 50" lists.
The concept of the Fortune500 was created by Edgar P. Smith, a Fortuneeditor.
Fortune Global500
The Fortune Global 500, alsoknown as Global 500, is an annual ranking of the top 500corporations worldwide as measured by revenue. The list is compiledand published annually by Fortune magazine.
Until 1989 it listed onlynon-US industrial corporations under the title "International 500",while the Fortune 500 contained and still contains exclusively UScorporations. In 1990, US companies were added to compile a trulyglobal list of top industrial corporations as ranked by sales.Since 1995, the list has had its current form, listing also topfinancial corporations and service providers byrevenue.
From 2001 to 2011, there hasbeen significant change in the geographical distribution of thecompanies in the Global 500 rankings. The number of North Americanbased companies have reduced from 215 in 2001 to 146 in 2011,whereas the contribution of Asian based companies have increasedrapidly from 116 in 2001 to 172 in 2011. The share of Europeanbased companies have increased marginally from 158 to 161 over thedecade.
Fortune 2012list
The rankings, which havebeen released by the magazine at its website, appear in the July23, 2012, issue of the magazine.
The following is the list oftop 10 companies, as published on 9 July 2012. It is based on thecompanies' fiscal year ended on or before 31 March2012.
RankCompanyCountryIndustry2011 revenue in USD
1Royal Dutch ShellNetherlandsPetroleum $484.4billion
2ExxonMobilUnited StatesPetroleum $452.9 billion
3WalmartUnitedStatesRetail$446.9 billion
4BPUnitedKingdomPetroleum$386.4 billion
5SinopecChinaPetroleum$375.2 billion
6China National Petroleum Corporation
ChinaPetroleum $352.3billion
7State Grid Corporation of China
ChinaPower$259.1 billion
8ChevronUnitedStatesPetroleum$245.6 billion
9ConocoPhillips UnitedStatesPetroleum$237.2 billion
10ToyotaJapanAutomobiles $235.3 billion
While Fortune lists Shell asa Dutch company, the company itself asserts that it is both Dutchand British.
Breakdown bycountry
This is the list of the top10 countries, with the most Global 500 companies.
RankCountryCompanies
1 UnitedStates132
2China73
3Japan68
4France32
4Germany32
6 UnitedKingdom26
7Switzerland15
8 SouthKorea13
9Netherlands12
10Canada11
148 companies are located inthe European Union.
Profitability
This is the list of top 10most profitable corporations in the world as published on 9 July2012. It is based on the companies' fiscal year ended on or before31 March 2012.
RankCompanyCountry2011 profit in USD
1GazpromRussia$44.4 billion
2ExxonMobilUnitedStates$41.6 billion
3Industrial and Commercial Bank ofChinaChina$41.6 billion
4Royal DutchShellNetherlands$30.9 billion
5ChevronUnitedStates$26.9 billion
6China ConstructionBankChina$26.1 billion
7AppleUnitedStates$25.9 billion
8BPUnitedKingdom$25.7billion
9BHPBillitonAustralia$23.6billion
10MicrosoftUnitedStates$23.2 billion
While Fortune lists Shell asa Dutch company, the company itself asserts that it is both Dutchand British.
While Fortune lists BHPBilliton as an Australian company, the company is a Dual ListedCompany (DLC) comprising BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc.BHP Billiton was created through the DLC merger of BHP Limited (nowBHP Billiton Limited) and Billiton Plc (now BHP Billiton Plc),which was concluded on 29 June 2001. The headquarters of BHPBilliton Limited, and the global headquarters of the combined BHPBilliton Group, are located in Melbourne, Australia. BHP BillitonPlc is located in London, United Kingdom. Both companies haveidentical Boards of Directors and are run by a single managementteam. Shareholders in each company have equivalent economic andvoting rights in both companies. Hence, it has been referred to asan Anglo-Australian company in many places.
Employeestrength
This is the list of top 10corporate employers in the world as published on 9 July 2012. It isbased on the companies' fiscal year ended on or before 31 March2012.
RankCompanyCountry2011 Number of Employees
1WalmartUnitedStates2,200,000
2China National PetroleumCorporationChina1,668,072
3State Grid Corporation ofChinaChina1,583,000
4SinopecChina1,021,979
5Hon Hai PrecisionIndustryTaiwan961,000
6China Post Group China889,307
7U.S. PostalServiceUnitedStates601,601
8VolkswagenGermany501,956
9ChinaTelecommunicationsChina491,447
10 AviationIndustry Corp. ofChinaChina480,147
Fortune 2011 list- Breakdownby city and metropolitan area
This is a breakdown bycities and metropolitan areas as determined by Fortune in the 2011list. Metropolitan areas with at least three Global 500 companiesare listed. The 2011 list does not include a list of cities sortedby Fortune 500 companies. The list is instead counted from thecountry listings.
RankCity Country Number of Global500 companies(City) Global500 revenues
$ millions(City)
1TokyoJapan47$2,268,640
2BeijingChina41$2,222,366
3ParisFrance23$1,285,432
4London UnitedKingdom18$1,170,270
5NewYorkUnitedStates18$955,291
6SeoulSouthKorea12$640,586
7OsakaJapan8$376,607
8TorontoCanada7$197,294
9HoustonUnitedStates6$377,702
9MoscowRussia6$348,084
9MadridSpain6$323,345
9ZurichSwitzerland6$221,818
9MumbaiIndia6$207,156
14Amsterdam5$261,933
14ShanghaiChina5$165,751
16MunichGermany4$386,355
16RomeItaly4$283,454
16AtlantaUnitedStates4$184,416
16 Essen(Rhine-Ruhr)Germany4$173,644
16BrusselsBelgium4$144,833
16 HongKongChina4$141,495
16FrankfurtGermany4$140,929
16 SaoPauloBrazil4$135,406
24StuttgartGermany3$213,108
24 MexicoCityMexico3$169,776
24MilanItaly3$109,943
24PhiladelphiaUnitedStates3$94,643
24TaipeiTaiwan3$90,537
Notes
1.London refers to Greater London.
2.New York includes Bridgeport as part of New York-Newark-BridgeportNew York-New Jersey-Connecticut-Pennsylvania Combined StatisticalArea (CSA).
3.Toronto includes Waterloo as part of Greater GoldenHorseshoe.
4.Amsterdam refers to Randstad.
5.Rhine-Ruhr refers to Rhine-Ruhr area.
6.Hong Kong includes Shenzhen and Guangzhou as part of Pearl RiverDelta
