Global 500

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Countries

Country Rank	Company	Global 500 rank	City	Revenues ($ millions)
1	Assicurazioni Generali	19	Trieste	126,012
2	ENI	24	Rome	117,235
3	Enel	60	Rome	89,329
4	Fiat	85	Turin	69,639
5	UniCredit Group	102	Milan	64,709
6	Intesa Sanpaolo	151	Turin	47,282
7	Telecom Italia	181	Milan	39,764
8	Poste Italiane	286	Rome	27,935
9	Finmeccanica	310	Rome	26,335
10	Premafin Finanziaria	432	Milan	20,424
11	Gruppo Mediolanum	472	Basiglio	18,057

From the July 26, 2010 issue

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Country	# of GLOBAL 500 Companies

Australia	8
Austria	3
Belgium	5
Belgium/Netherlands	1
Brazil	7
Britain	29
Britain/Netherlands	1
Canada	11
China	46
Denmark	2

Finland	1
France	39
Germany	37
India	8
Ireland	2
Italy	11

Japan	71
Luxembourg	1
Malaysia	1
Mexico	2
Netherlands	13
Norway	1
Poland	1
Russia	6

Saudi Arabia	1
Singapore	2
South Korea	10
Spain	10
Sweden	5
Switzerland	15
Taiwan	8
Thailand	1
Turkey	1
U.S.	139
Venezuela	1

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Rank # of Global 500 Companies
U.S.	139
Japan	71
China	46

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Company	2009 Number of Employees
Wal-Mart Stores	2,100,000
China National Petroleum	1,649,992
State Grid	1,533,800

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Company	2009 Profits ($ millions)
Gazprom	$24,556
Exxon Mobil	$19,280
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	$18,832

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