The Pharmaceutical Executive magazine published its annual ranking of the Top 50 Pharma Companies Worldwide based on sales earlier this month. New York -based Pfizer(PFE) was topped the list with a sales of over $47.4 billion in 2012. The Top 50 Global Pharma Companies are listed in the tables below: Click to enlarge Source: Pharmaceutical Executive Here …
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Last week the Fortune magazine published its Fortune 500 list of companies for this year. The world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores(WMT) topped the ranking with a revenue of over $469.0 billion last year. The next three spots were taken by oil companies – Exxon Mobil(XOM), Chevron (CVX) and Philips 66 (PSX). The following table shows …
Some multinational firms’ revenue are huge compared to the GDP of their home economies. For example, during the tech boom of the 1990s Nokia dominated Finland’s economy. The following chart illustrates this phenomenon using a few examples: Click to enlarge Source: Shell, Glencore, and Other Multinationals Dominate Their Home Economies, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
The largest U.S. companies from the Fortune Global 500 list for last year are listed below. These firms were ranked based on their revenues: Source: Fortune 500, Fortune Of the 500 firms in the list, 132 are from the U.S. Exxon Mobil(XOM) took the top rank followed by Walmart Stores(WMT), Chevron(CVX), ConocoPhillips (COP) and …
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Every year Fortune magazine publishes its famous list of Global 500 companies ranked by Revenue and Profits. The rankings for 2012 are listed below: Energy companies dominate the top 10 spots since they benefit immensely from high oil prices. Oil giant Royal DutchShell (RDS-A, RDS-B) topped the list based on revenues followed by ExxonMobil (XOM). …
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