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81. Nippon Life Insurance

Rank: 81 (Previous rank: 75)
CEO: Yoshinobu Tsutsui
Employees: 72,914
Address: 3-5-12 Imabashi
Osaka 541-8501
Country: Japan
Website: www.nissay.co.jp

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Is Nippon Life Insurance a great company, or what?

	$ millions	% change from 2009
Revenues	78,571.4	9.0
Profits	2,630.7	0.2
Assets	602,825.8	--
Stockholders' equity	17,874.7	--

Profits as % of
Revenues	3
Assets	0.4

From the July 25, 2011 issue

Figures are for fiscal year ended March 31, 2011.

Editor's note: Chrysler Group was erroneously omitted from the Global 500 listing. With revenue of $41.9 billion, Chrysler ranks No.205 among all the companies in the world and 61st in the U.S. As a result, Bristol-Myers Squibb, which had ranked No.500, falls off the list. Updates may be found for the full list, rankings by country, and the list of arrivals. Fortune regrets the error.

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