Global 500

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Countries

Country Rank ▾	Company	Global 500 rank	City	Revenues ($ millions)
1	Indian Oil	83	New Delhi	86,016
2	Reliance Industries	99	Mumbai	76,119
3	Bharat Petroleum	225	Mumbai	44,582
4	Hindustan Petroleum	267	Mumbai	38,885
5	State Bank of India	285	Mumbai	36,950
6	Tata Motors	314	Mumbai	34,575
7	Oil & Natural Gas	357	Dehradun	30,746
8	Tata Steel	401	Mumbai	27,739

From the July 23, 2012 issue

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Country	# of GLOBAL 500 Companies

Australia	9
Austria	1
Belgium	4
Brazil	8
Britain	26
Britain/Netherlands	1
Canada	11
China	73
Colombia	1
Denmark	1

Finland	1
France	32
Germany	32
Hungary	1
India	8
Ireland	2
Italy	9

Japan	68
Luxembourg	2
Malaysia	1
Mexico	3
Netherlands	12
Norway	1
Poland	1
Russia	7

Saudi Arabia	1
Singapore	2
South Korea	13
Spain	8
Sweden	4
Switzerland	15
Taiwan	6
Thailand	1
Turkey	1
U.S.	132
United Arab Emirates	1
Venezuela	1

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Rank # of Global 500 Companies
U.S.	132
China	73
Japan	68

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Company	2011 Number of Employees
Wal-Mart Stores	2,200,000
China National Petroleum	1,668,072
State Grid	1,583,000

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Company	2011 Profits ($ millions)
Gazprom	$44,459.6
Exxon Mobil	$41,060
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	$32,214.1

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