Fortune Global 500 List And Top Unknown Companies
Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by LynThomas in Business & Finance
Fortune Magazine publishes its annual list of the world’s biggest companies. Top of the list this year is Wal-Mart Stores, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, Toyota Motor, Japan Post Holdings, Sinopec, State Grid, AXA and China National Petroleum.
Oil companies are the biggest money makers on this year’s Global 500, including BP, Microsoft and Wal-Mart.
Australia’s top companies are BHP Billiton, Westfarmers, Woolworths, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australian Bank, Westpac Banking, ANZ Bank and Telstra.
China’s leading companies are Sinopec, State Grid and China National Petroleum.
Yet there are huge companies, with revenue greater than, or equal to the commonly known brand name companies.
Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls, founded in 1885, has 130,00 employees and a turn-over of $128b. It is the leading manufacturer of auto interiors for cars and light-trucks. The company designs components and systems that manager car systems, including door and overhead and door controls for companies like Toyota, GM, Volkswagen and Ford.
Ingram Micro
It is also the world’s leading battery manufacturer. In 2009 they received the largest grant awarded by the United States Department of Energy, $299.2m, for building batteries for electric vehicles.
Ingram Micro turns over $30b and has 13,750 employees. It was formed in 1979. It is the world’s largest wholesale technology distributor, including desktops, notebooks, PC’s, storage devices, printers and software. Its 1,300 vendors include IBM, Nokia, Microsoft and Intel. It delivers product to over 180,000 resellers around the world. Acting only as a middle-man it has no interest in public knowledge about the company.
Mainly teachers know of TIAA-CREF, the number one retirement system for employees in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields. It is one of the largest financial services companies in the U.S., servicing around 3.7m people. The company was formed in 1918, had 7,000 employees and turns over $26b.
TJX, formed in 1956 has over 150,000 employees and turns over $20b through its numerous stores, in the United States, Canada and Europe. The company’s leading discount retailers include such names as Marshalls, J.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and A.J. Wright.
Aramark Corp
Aramark Corp was founded in 1936. Today it has 250,000 employees and turns over $12b. The company provides food to various institutions such as businesses, courts, educational institutions, armed forces and health care providers. The Correctional Services department provides 1m meals a day to over 600 correctional facilities.
KFC
Yum! Brands Inc was founded in 1997, employs 49,000 people and has an $11b turnover.
It is the world’s largest restaurant chain by brand, operating over 37,000 restaurants, in over 110 countries. Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC and Long John Silver all operate under the Yum! Brand banner.
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