The Global Top 100 Non-Financial Trans-National Corporations (TNCs) ranked by Foreign Assets as of 2013 are listed in the table below: Source: UNCTAD Download Lists: The Global Top 100 Non-Financial Trans-National Corporations (TNCs) (in Excel format) The Global Top 100 TNCs from Emerging and Frontier Markets (in Excel format) Related: The Top 25 Financial State-Owned Multi-National …

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The Pharmaceutical Executive magazine publishes its annual ranking of the Top 50 Pharma Companies Worldwide based on sales in the previous year. This year’s list was released back in June. The Top 50 Global Pharma Companies are listed in the tables below: Click to enlarge Source: Pharmaceutical Executive Here are a few observations: Swiss drug …

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** New – For the latest version of this list go here: The World’s Top 100 Non-Financial TNCs Ranked by Foreign Assets 2015 The Top 100 Non-Financial TNCs from Developing and Transition Economies Ranked by Foreign Assets are listed in the below based on 2013 data: Source: UNCTAD Chinese firms located in mainland China and Hong …

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A few years ago I wrote an article on the world’s beer market share. The top five global beer makers in 2010 were AB InBev NV (BUD), SABMiller PLC (SBMRY), Heineken N.V. (HINKY), Carlsberg (CABGY) and China-based China Resources Enterprise(CRHKY).  The U.S. is the world’s largest beer market. However most of the American beer market is dominated by foreign-owned companies as …

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Forbes Asia has published its annual list of Asia’s Feb 50 firms for this year. The companies in this list are selected from publicly-traded companies. Here is the selection criteria from the Forbes article: The Fab 50 is chosen from a pool of 1,300 companies in the region that have at least $3 billion in …

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