1. Walmart – $421.8 Billion!
Industry – Retailer
Location – U.S
Employees – 2,150,000
CEO – Micheal T.
Duke
Stock Exchange Listing – NYSE
Walmart is an American multinational corporation that runs chains of discount department stores and warehouses. It was created in 1962 by the Sam Walton. As of 2012, it is the biggest company with respect to revenue, which is about $421.8 billion. It is also the biggest private employer with over 2 million employees. It has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, but operates under different names. Despite global recession, it lured millions of customers due to the discount prices. It’s head-quarters are located in Bentonville, Arkansas.
2. Exxon Mobil - $370.1 Billion!
Industry - Oil and Gas
Location - U.S
Employees - 83,000
CEO - Rex W. Tillerson
Stock Exchange Listing – NYSE
Exxon Mobil is an American Oil and Gas company formed on 30
November, 1999. It’s descended from J.D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. It has 37
oil refineries in 21 countries, with a combined refining capacity of 6.3
million barrels (1 million m3) per day! And it
has a revenue equivalent to 3.921 million Barrels of oil. Hence it is the
largest refining company in the world. Despite recession, it continued to
expand it’s reach into emerging markets, and has been ranked number 1 or number
2 for the last five years1
3. Royal Dutch Shell
- $368.1 Billion!
Industry - Oil and Gas
Location - Netherlands
Employees - 112,000
CEO - Peter R. Voser
Stock Exchange Listing – LSE
Royal
Dutch Shell, commonly knows as Shell is a global Oil and Gas company. It is
considered as the fifth largest company in the world, and second-largest energy
company. It is active in almost all areas of the industry; exploration,
production, refining, distributions, marketing, petrochemicals, power
generation etc. It also has on-going work in the renewable energy sector; bio
fuels, solar, wind and hydrogen power. It operates in 90 countries and produces
a revenue equivalent to 3.1 millions barrels per day. It has 44,000 service
stations worldwide.The 2010 Gulf oil spill, and the recession took a toll on
the company due to insecure market. But it held it’s ground and by end of 2011,
it was the largest company listed on FTSE with a market capitalization of
£149.2 billion.
4. BP - $297.1 Billion!
Industry - Oil and Gas
Location - Britain
Employees - 97,600
CEO - Anthony B. Haward
Stock Exchange Listing - LSE, NYSE
British
Petroleum is another global oil and gas company which ranks fourth largest
worldwide and third largest energy company. Like Shell, it also is active in
all the fields of the Oil and Gas industry. And also has major renewable energy
activities including hydrogen, bio fuels, solar and wind power etc. It operates
in over 80 countries and has 22,400 service stations, producing around 3.8
million barrels of oil equivalent per day. It’s division in America is the
largest oil producer in America. Despite lower demand and falling prices, it
still manages to get hefty profits.
5. Sinopec - $289.7
Billion1
Industry - Oil and Gas
Location - China
Employees - 400,513
CEO - Su Shulin
Stock Exchange Listing - SSE, SEHK
Sinopec
is a majority owned subsidiary of state owned company Sinopec Group, and is the
second largest petroleum company in China. Its business includes the major
fields in the industry, including refining, production etc. It also works on
the production and sales of petrochemicals, chemical fibers, chemical
fertilizers, and other chemical products; storage and pipeline transportation
of crude oil and natural gas; import, export and import/export agency business
of crude oil, natural gas, refined oil products, petrochemicals, and other
chemicals. Sinopec is also working on renewable energy and cutting down CO2
emissions. It is the first Chinese company to make it to the top 10!
6. State Grid Corporation of China - $231.6
Billion!
Industry - Electricity
Location - China
Employees - 1,564,001
CEO - Liu Zhenya
Stock Exchange Listing - State owned
State
Grid is the largest electric power transmission and distribution company in the
world! It serves in China only, supplying power to millions. Since its founding
in 2002, it has increasingly become involved in power industry reform,
technology exchange and environmental conservation development.
7. Toyota Motors -
$228.2 Billion!
Industry - Automobile/Automotive
Location - Japan
Employees - 316,121
CEO - Akio Toyoda
Stock Exchange Listing - TYO: 7203
Toyota
is a multinational automaker company, and is considered the world’s largest
automaker by sales as well as production. It was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro
Toyoda as a spin-off from his father’s company Toyota. It created its first
engine in 1934, and its first passenger car in 1936. Toyota Motor corporation
group also includes companies like Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino Motors. In addition
to manufacturing automobiles, Toyota provides financial services through its
Toyota Financial Services division and also builds robots.
8. Petro China – $222
Billion!
Industry - Oil and Gas
Location - China
Employees - 464,000
CEO - Zhou Jiping
Stock Exchange Listing - SSE, SEHK
Petro
China is a state owned Chinese Oil and Gas company and it is China’s biggest
oil producer. Traded in Hong Kong and New York, the mainland enterprise
announced its plans to issue stock in Shanghai in November 2007, and following
its debut on the Shanghai index, its market value tripled, making PetroChina
the first company to reach a trillion dollar market capitalization.
9. Total S.A - $222.8
Billion!
Industry - Oil and Gas
Location - France
Employees - 111,401
CEO – Christophe de Margerie
Stock Exchange - Government owned
Total
S.A. is a French multinational oil company and one of the six “Supermajor” oil
companies in the world. Its businesses covers the entire oil and gas chain,
from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation,
transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude
oil and product trading. It is a large scale chemical manufacturer as well
10. Japan Post
Holdings – $211 billion!
Industry - Conglomerate
Location - Japan
Employees - 229,134
CEO - Jiro Saito
Stock Exchange Listing - Government owned
Japan
Post Holdings Co., Ltd. is a large state-owned enterprise in Japan that deals
with mail delivery, banking and insurance services.
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