Global 500

Our annual ranking of the world's largest corporations

Industries

Rank	Company	Global 500 rank	$ millions	% change from 2007	$ millions	% change from 2007
			REVENUES		PROFITS
1	ABB	230	34,944	15.3	3,118	-17.0
2	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	243	33,602	19.8	241	-55.1
3	Alstom	334	26,461	10.6	1,566	29.9
4	Hyundai Heavy Industries	355	25,004	11.2	2,051	10.2

Rank	Company	Revenues %	Assets %
1	ABB	8.9	9.4
2	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	0.7	0.5
3	Alstom	5.9	4.9
4	Hyundai Heavy Industries	8.2	6.7

From the July 20, 2009 issue

Rank # of Global 500 Companies
U.S.	140
Japan	68
France	40

Company	2008 Number of Employees
Wal-Mart Stores	2,100,000
China National Petroleum	1,618,393
State Grid	1,537,000

Company	2008 Profits ($ millions)
Exxon Mobil	$45,220
Gazprom	$29,864
Royal Dutch Shell	$26,277

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