Global 500 
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Top companies
Biggest Employers
1 Wal-Mart Stores 1 1,900,000
2 State Grid 29 1,504,000
3 China National Petroleum 24 1,086,966
4 U.S. Postal Service 64 796,199
5 Sinopec 17 681,900
6 Siemens 28 475,000
7 McDonald's 329 465,000
8 Deutsche Post 57 463,350
9 Carrefour 32 456,295
10 Agricultural Bank of China 277 452,464
11 Gazprom 52 432,230
12 United Parcel Service 128 428,000
13 Compass Group 322 406,924
14 China Telecommunications 275 400,299
15 Hitachi 48 384,444
16 Hon Hai Precision Industry 154 382,000
17 DaimlerChrysler 8 360,385
18 International Business Machines 42 355,766
19 Sears Holdings 114 352,000
19 Target 96 352,000
21 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China 170 351,448
22 Sodexho Alliance 483 332,096
23 Citigroup 14 332,000
24 Matsushita Electric Industrial 59 328,645
25 Volkswagen 16 324,875
26 Mittal Steel 99 320,000
27 General Electric 11 319,000
28 Tesco 55 318,283
29 Kroger 80 310,000
30 Home Depot 44 305,760
31 La Poste 223 303,401
32 AT&T 86 302,770
33 Toyota Motor 6 299,394
34 Veolia Environnement 178 298,498
35 China Construction Bank 230 297,506
36 HSBC Holdings 22 296,197
37 China State Construction 396 294,309
38 Ford Motor 12 283,000
39 General Motors 5 280,000
40 China Railway Engineering 342 275,866
41 Nestlé 56 265,000
42 Robert Bosch 109 261,291
43 Edeka Zentrale 338 253,000
44 Deutsche Telekom 60 248,800
45 China Railway Construction 384 245,540
46 Verizon Communications 39 242,000
47 Jardine Matheson 457 240,000
48 Tyco International 149 238,200
49 Telefónica 77 234,900
50 Bank of China 215 232,632
From the July 23, 2007 issue
How the Countries Stack Up
United States 162
Japan 67
France 38
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Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 39,500.0
Royal Dutch Shell 25,442.0
UAL 22,876.0
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Top 5 in Asia
Toyota Motor 204,746.4
Sinopec 131,636.0
China National Petroleum 110,520.2
State Grid 107,185.5
Honda Motor 94,790.5
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