List of largest companies in Ireland
This article lists the largest companies in Ireland in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes. A large part of companies on both lists are registered in Ireland for tax purposes.
2019 Fortune list
This list displays all 4 Irish companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2018.[1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
| Rank | Fortune 500 rank |
Name | Industry | Revenue (USD millions) |
Profits (USD millions) |
Employees | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 298 | Accenture | Services | 40,993 | 4,060 | 459,000 | Dublin |
| 2 | 397 | CRH plc | Building materials | 31,625 | 2,971 | 89,831 | Dublin |
| 3 | 399 | Johnson Controls | Industrials | 31,400 | 2,162 | 122,000 | Cork |
| 4 | 419 | Medtronic | Health care | 29,953 | 3,104 | 98,003 | Dublin |
2019 Forbes list
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking. The table below also lists the headquarters location and industry sector of each company. The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2018.[2]
| Rank | Forbes 2000 rank |
Name | Headquarters | Revenue (billions US$) |
Profit (billions US$) |
Assets (billions US$) |
Value (billions US$) |
Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 150 | Medtronic | Dublin | 30.6 | 4.9 | 88.7 | 113.0 | Health care |
| 2 | 248 | Accenture | Dublin | 42.5 | 4.5 | 27.4 | 113.9 | Banking |
| 3 | 299 | Johnson Controls | Cork | 29.4 | 2.3 | 48.0 | 33.5 | Industrials |
| 4 | 361 | Eaton Corporation | Dublin | 21.6 | 2.1 | 31.1 | 36.1 | Conglomerate |
| 5 | 385 | CRH plc | Dublin | 31.6 | 1.1 | 40.2 | 28.3 | Building materials |
| 6 | 585 | Ingersoll-Rand | Swords | 15.7 | 1.3 | 17.9 | 27.3 | Industrials |
| 7 | 595 | Allergan | Dublin | 15.8 | −0.7 | 101.8 | 46.3 | Pharmaceuticals |
| 8 | 740 | Aptiv | Dublin | 14.4 | 1.1 | 12.5 | 23.3 | Automotive |
| 9 | 770 | Allied Irish Banks | Dublin | 3.8 | 1.2 | 104.6 | 13.0 | Banking |
| 10 | 841 | Ryanair | Dublin | 9.1 | 1.3 | 13.6 | 16.1 | Airline |
| 11 | 867 | Seagate Technology | Dublin | 11.3 | 1.7 | 8.8 | 14.1 | IT services |
| 12 | 956 | Bank of Ireland | Dublin | 5.9 | 0.7 | 141.4 | 7.2 | Banking |
| 13 | 1101 | Kerry Group | Tralee | 7.8 | 0.6 | 9.5 | 19.2 | Food processing |
| 14 | 1123 | AerCap | Dublin | 4.7 | 1.0 | 43.2 | 7.1 | Transportation |
| 15 | 1209 | Experian | Dublin | 4.8 | 0.8 | 7.9 | 25.8 | Services |
| 16 | 1414 | DCC plc | Dublin | 20.5 | 0.3 | 8.5 | 8.8 | Services |
| 17 | 1760 | Adient | Dublin | 17.4 | −1.5 | 10.4 | 2.4 | Automotive |
| 18 | 1852 | Smurfit Kappa Group | Dublin | 10.6 | −0.7 | 10.9 | 7.3 | Packaging |
See also
References
- ^ "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-07-25.