Global 500 
Top companies
Biggest Increase in Revenues
1 Rosneft Oil 367 291.3 17,670.0
2 Dexia Group 55 258.8 72,814.3
3 Lyondell Chemical 349 211.8 18,606.0
4 Legal & General Group 85 159.0 56,384.8
5 Sears Holdings 107 149.3 49,124.0
6 Wellpoint 117 116.8 45,136.0
7 Société Générale 67 98.8 64,441.9
8 Lloyds TSB Group 89 91.6 55,407.0
9 Sanofi-Aventis 159 89.4 35,429.2
10 Crédit Agricole 19 87.6 110,764.6
11 Cemex 451 85.7 14,934.5
12 Rio Tinto Group 310 82.8 20,742.0
13 Hon Hai Precision Industry 206 74.6 28,350.1
14 Danske Bank Group 284 73.3 22,336.5
15 Santander Central Hispano Group 93 69.3 53,848.8
16 Apple Computer 492 68.3 13,931.0
17 Lukoil 115 60.7 46,284.0
18 Prudential 52 58.8 74,744.7
19 HBOS 49 58.7 75,798.8
20 OMV Group 334 57.8 19,389.5
21 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group 147 55.1 37,925.6
22 Lehman Brothers Holdings 176 52.6 32,420.0
23 Petrobrás 86 52.3 56,324.0
24 Surgutneftegas 443 51.5 15,153.6
25 Nomura Holdings 427 51.1 15,835.0
26 Valero Energy 44 50.9 81,362.0
27 Quanta Computer 454 50.6 14,900.5
28 Kookmin Bank 364 49.5 17,853.1
29 Federated Dept. Stores 262 49.4 23,347.0
30 UBS 36 48.8 84,707.6
31 Fortis 18 48.8 112,351.4
32 Plains All Amer. Pipeline 186 48.6 31,177.3
33 Merrill Lynch 110 47.2 47,783.0
34 Goldman Sachs Group 124 45.4 43,391.0
35 Gazprom 102 44.8 50,824.4
36 PTT 265 44.2 23,109.0
37 Banco Bradesco 269 44.2 22,920.4
38 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 45 40.3 79,902.0
39 Occidental Petroleum 412 40.3 16,286.0
40 Itaúsa-Investimentos Itaú 415 40.2 16,185.8
41 América Telecom 398 40.0 16,719.2
42 Holcim 458 39.4 14,819.5
43 Constellation Energy 370 38.4 17,374.8
44 ConocoPhillips 10 37.0 166,683.0
45 Deutsche Bank 48 36.9 76,227.6
46 Inbev 472 35.9 14,483.3
47 Hutchison Whampoa 259 35.8 23,474.8
48 Hess 263 35.8 23,255.0
49 Tesoro 406 35.7 16,473.0
50 Banco Do Brasil 323 35.2 19,959.9
From the July 24, 2006 issue
How the Countries Stack Up
United States 170
Japan 70
Britain, France (tied) 38
Biggest employers
Wal-Mart Stores 1,800,000
China National Petroleum 1,090,232
State Grid 844,031
Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 36,130
Royal Dutch Shell 25,311
Citigroup 24,589
Top 5 in Asia
Toyota Motor 185,805
Sinopec 98,784
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 94,869
Honda Motor 87,510
State Grid 86,984

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