Rank |
Company |
Global 500 Rank |
2009 Number of Employees |
1 | Wal-Mart Stores | 1 | 2,100,000 |
2 | China National Petroleum | 10 | 1,649,992 |
3 | State Grid | 8 | 1,533,800 |
4 | U.S. Postal Service | 92 | 667,605 |
5 | Sinopec | 7 | 633,383 |
6 | Hon Hai Precision Industry | 112 | 611,000 |
7 | China Telecommunications | 204 | 495,239 |
8 | Carrefour | 22 | 475,976 |
9 | Tesco | 58 | 468,508 |
10 | Agricultural Bank of China | 141 | 441,144 |
11 | Deutsche Post | 86 | 424,686 |
12 | United Parcel Service | 157 | 408,000 |
13 | Siemens | 40 | 405,000 |
14 | International Business Machines | 48 | 399,409 |
15 | Aviation Industry Corp. of China | 330 | 390,254 |
16 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China | 87 | 389,827 |
17 | Compass Group | 424 | 386,170 |
18 | Gazprom | 50 | 386,000 |
19 | McDonald's | 378 | 385,000 |
20 | Panasonic | 65 | 384,586 |
21 | Sodexo | 437 | 379,749 |
22 | Volkswagen | 16 | 368,500 |
23 | Hitachi | 47 | 359,764 |
24 | Target | 98 | 351,000 |
25 | Kroger | 70 | 334,000 |
26 | Sears Holdings | 165 | 322,000 |
27 | Toyota Motor | 5 | 320,590 |
28 | HSBC Holdings | 39 | 309,516 |
29 | General Electric | 13 | 304,000 |
29 | Hewlett-Packard | 26 | 304,000 |
31 | China Southern Power Grid | 156 | 303,184 |
32 | China Construction Bank | 116 | 301,537 |
33 | Veolia Environnement | 145 | 291,000 |
34 | Edeka Zentrale | 261 | 289,602 |
35 | La Poste | 279 | 287,174 |
36 | Bank of America Corp. | 15 | 283,717 |
37 | AT&T | 21 | 282,720 |
38 | ArcelorMittal | 99 | 281,703 |
39 | China North Industries Gp. | 348 | 279,472 |
40 | Nestlé | 44 | 278,000 |
41 | China Resources National | 395 | 276,360 |
42 | China Railway Group | 137 | 276,150 |
43 | Robert Bosch | 129 | 270,687 |
44 | Wells Fargo | 46 | 267,300 |
45 | Citigroup | 33 | 267,150 |
46 | Bank of China | 143 | 262,566 |
47 | Jardine Matheson | 382 | 261,000 |
48 | Deutsche Telekom | 59 | 259,920 |
49 | Telefónica | 68 | 257,426 |
50 | Daimler | 30 | 256,407 |
From the July 26, 2010 issue
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