Fortune Global 500
The Fortune Global 500 is a ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide as measured by revenue. The list is compiled and published annually by Fortune magazine.
Until 1989 it listed only non-US industrial corporations under the title "International 500", while the Fortune 500 contained and still contains exclusively US corporations. In 1990, US companies were added to compile a truly global list of top industrial corporations as ranked by sales. In 2005, more than 450 of them were headquartered in Europe (195), the United States (176), and Japan (80).[1]
Since 1995, the list has had its current form, listing also top financial corporations and service providers by revenue.
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[edit] 2011 list
This is the top 10 as published in July 2011. It is based on the companies' fiscal year ended on or before 31 March 2011.[2]
| Rank | Company | Country | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wal-Mart Stores |  United States |
Retail |
| 2 | Royal Dutch Shell |  Netherlands† |
Petroleum |
| 3 | Exxon Mobil | United States |
Petroleum |
| 4 | BP |  United Kingdom |
Petroleum |
| 5 | Sinopec |  China |
Petroleum |
| 6 | China National Petroleum | China |
Petroleum |
| 7 | State Grid | China |
Power |
| 8 | Toyota Motor |  Japan |
Automobiles |
| 9 | Japan Post Holdings | Japan |
Diversified |
| 10 | Chevron | United States |
Petroleum |
† While Fortune lists Shell as a Dutch company, the company itself asserts that it is both Dutch and British.[3]
[edit] 2011 breakdown by country
This is a ranking of the top 11 countries, with the most Global 500 companies.[4]
| Rank | Country | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States |
133 |
| 2 | Japan |
68 |
| 3 | China |
61 |
| 4 |  France |
35 |
| 5 |  Germany |
34 |
| 6 | United Kingdom |
30 |
| 7 |  Switzerland |
15 |
| 8 |  South Korea |
14 |
| 9 | Netherlands |
12 |
| 10 |  Canada |
11 |
| 11 |  Italy |
10 |
148 companies are located in the European Union.
[edit] 2011 breakdown by city and metropolitan area
This is a breakdown by cities and metropolitan areas as determined by Fortune in the 2011 list.[5] Metropolitan areas with at least three Global 500 companies are listed. The 2011 list does not include a list of cities sorted by Fortune 500 companies. The list is instead counted from the country listings.
| Rank | City | Country | Number of Global 500 companies (City) |
Global 500 revenues $ millions (City) |
Number of Global 500 companies (Metro) |
Global 500 revenues $ millions (Metro) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tokyo | Japan |
47 | $2,268,640 | 49 | $2,430,053 |
| 2 | Beijing | China |
41 | $2,222,366 | 41 | $2,222,366 |
| 3 | Paris | France |
23 | $1,285,432 | 31 | $1,952,812 |
| 4 | London | United Kingdom |
18 | $1,170,270 | 22 | $1,366,389[6] |
| 5 | New York | United States |
18 | $955,291 | 27 | $1,535,321[7] |
| 6 | Seoul | South Korea |
12 | $640,586 | 13 | $660,149 |
| 7 | Osaka | Japan |
8 | $376,607 | 10 | $422,112 |
| 8 | Toronto | Canada |
7 | $197,294 | 9 | $241,303[8] |
| 9 | Houston | United States |
6 | $377,702 | 6 | $377,702 |
| 9 | Moscow |  Russia |
6 | $348,084 | 6 | $348,084 |
| 9 | Madrid |  Spain |
6 | $323,345 | 6 | $323,345 |
| 9 | Zurich | Switzerland |
6 | $221,818 | 10 | $438,811 |
| 9 | Mumbai |  India |
6 | $207,156 | 6 | $207,156 |
| 14 | Amsterdam | Netherlands |
5 | $261,933 | 12 | $885,156[9] |
| 14 | Shanghai | China |
5 | $165,751 | 5 | $165,751 |
| 16 | Munich | Germany |
4 | $386,355 | 4 | $386,355 |
| 16 | Rome | Italy |
4 | $283,454 | 4 | $283,454 |
| 16 | Atlanta | United States |
4 | $184,416 | 4 | $184,416 |
| 16 | Essen (Rhine-Ruhr) | Germany |
4 | $173,644 | 12 | $680,567[10] |
| 16 | Brussels |  Belgium |
4 | $144,833 | 5 | $181,130 |
| 16 | Hong Kong | China |
4 | $141,495 | 7 | $252,227[11] |
| 16 | Frankfurt | Germany |
4 | $140,929 | 6 | $191,255 |
| 16 | Sao Paulo |  Brazil |
4 | $135,406 | 4 | $135,406 |
| 24 | Stuttgart | Germany |
3 | $213,108 | 3 | $213,108 |
| 24 | Mexico City |  Mexico |
3 | $169,776 | 3 | $169,776 |
| 24 | Milan | Italy |
3 | $109,943 | 3 | $109,943 |
| 24 | Philadelphia | United States |
3 | $94,643 | 5 | $205,330 |
| 24 | Taipei |  Taiwan |
3 | $90,537 | 7 | $260,966 |
| - | Washington D.C. | United States |
2 | $220,877 | 6 | $398,601 |
| - | San Francisco | United States |
2 | $205,333 | 10 | $773,782[12] |
| - | Minneapolis | United States |
2 | $87,908 | 7 | $321,799 |
| - | Chicago | United States |
2 | $87,535 | 9 | $361,287 |
| - | Melbourne |  Australia |
2 | $74,849 | 4 | $137,474 |
| - | Sydney | Australia |
2 | $70,992 | 3 | $116,614 |
| - | Hannover | Germany |
2 | $56,589 | 3 | $224,630[13] |
| - | Los Angeles | United States |
2 | $54,614 | 5 | $151,368 |
| - | Nagoya | Japan |
2 | $47,669 | 5 | $332,347 |
| - | Detroit | United States |
1 | $135,592 | 3 | $306,492 |
| - | Dallas | United States |
1 | $124,629[14] | 5 | $542,068 |
| - | Seattle | United States |
1 | $34,204 | 3 | $174,634 |
| - | Boston | United States |
1 | $33,193 | 5 | $201,276[15] |
[edit] See also
- 40 under 40 (Fortune Magazine)
- Fortune India 500
- Forbes Global 2000
- Fortune 500
- Bentley Infrastructure 500
- List of companies by revenue
- List of companies by employees
- List of corporations by market capitalization
[edit] Notes
- ^ "PDF-Human Rights Policies and Management Practices: Results from questionnaire surveys of Governments and Fortune Global 500 firms". http://www.reports-and-materials.org/Ruggie-survey-Govts-and-Fortune-500.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
- ^ "Global 500". Fortune. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2011/index.html. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ^ "Shell at a glance". Royal Dutch Shell. http://www.shell.com/home/content/aboutshell/at_a_glance/. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ^ "Global 500 2011: Countries - Australia". Fortune. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2011/countries/Australia.html. Retrieved July 8, 2011. Number of companies data taken from the "Pick a country" box.
- ^ "Global 500 2010". Fortune. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2010/. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
- ^ refers to Greater London
- ^ includes Bridgeport as part of New York-Newark-Bridgeport New York-New Jersey-Connecticut-Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area (CSA)
- ^ includes Waterloo as part of Greater Golden Horseshoe
- ^ refers to Randstad
- ^ refers to Rhine-Ruhr area
- ^ includes Shenzhen and Guangzhou as part of Pearl River Delta
- ^ refers to Bay Area or San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA
- ^ includes Wolfsburg as part of Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region
- ^ Dallas is the central city, but suburb of Irving, Texas has 3 companies totalling $395,269 in revenue.
- ^ includes Woonsocket as part of Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-RI-NH Combined Statistical Area
