Friends, Check out the 500 largest companies in the world from Fortune magazine. www.fortune.com I am enclosing the top 50 for your perusal. Sincerely, Ahmad Syamil Toledo, OH http://www.geocities.com/asyamil/ ----------------------------------- Global 500 Top 50 Rank Company Revenues ($ millions) 1 General Motors 176,558.0 2 Wal-Mart Stores 166,809.0 3 Exxon Mobil 163,881.0 4 Ford Motor 162,558.0 5 DaimlerChrysler 159,986.0 6 Mitsui 118,555.0 7 Mitsubishi 117,766.0 8 Toyota Motor 115,671.0 9 General Electric 111,630.0 10 Itochu 109,069.0 11 Royal Dutch/Shell Group 105,366.0 12 Sumitomo 95,701.6 13 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 93,591.7 14 Marubeni 91,807.4 15 AXA 87,645.7 16 Intl. Business Machines (IBM) 87,548.0 17 BP Amoco 83,566.0 18 Citigroup 82,005.0 19 Volkswagen 80,072.7 20 Nippon Life Insurance 78,515.1 21 Siemens 75,337.0 22 Allianz 74,178.2 23 Hitachi 71,858.5 24 Matsushita Electric Industrial 65,555.6 25 Nissho Iwai 65,393.2 26 U.S. Postal Service 62,726.0 27 Ing Group 62,492.4 28 AT&T 62,391.0 29 Philip Morris 61,751.0 30 Sony 60,052.7 31 Deutsche Bank 58,585.1 32 Boeing 57,993.0 33 Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance 55,104.7 34 Honda Motor 54,773.5 35 Assicurazioni Generali 53,723.2 36 Nissan Motor 53,679.9 37 E. ON 52,227.7 38 Toshiba 51,634.9 39 Bank of America Corp. 51,392.0 40 Fiat 51,331.7 41 Nestl� 49,694.1 42 SBC Communications 49,489.0 43 Credit Suisse 49,362.0 44 Hewlett-Packard 48,253.0 45 Fujitsu 47,195.9 46 Metro 46,663.6 47 Sumitomo Life Insurance 46,445.1 48 Tokyo Electric Power 45,727.7 49 Kroger 45,351.6 50 Total Fina Elf 44,990.3
