Rank |
Company |
Global 500 Rank |
2008 Number of Employees |
1 | Wal-Mart Stores | 3 | 2,100,000 | 2 | China National Petroleum | 13 | 1,618,393 | 3 | State Grid | 15 | 1,537,000 | 4 | U.S. Postal Service | 84 | 765,088 | 5 | Sinopec | 9 | 639,690 | 6 | China Telecommunications | 263 | 498,391 | 7 | Carrefour | 25 | 495,287 | 8 | Hon Hai Precision Industry | 109 | 486,000 | 9 | Gazprom | 22 | 456,000 | 10 | Deutsche Post | 54 | 451,515 | 11 | Agricultural Bank of China | 155 | 441,883 | 12 | United Parcel Service | 143 | 426,000 | 13 | Siemens | 30 | 420,800 | 14 | Hitachi | 52 | 400,129 | 15 | McDonald's | 388 | 400,000 | 16 | International Business Machines | 45 | 398,455 | 17 | Compass Group | 407 | 388,181 | 18 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China | 92 | 385,609 | 19 | Aviation Industry Corp. of China | 426 | 383,439 | 20 | Volkswagen | 14 | 369,928 | 21 | Tesco | 56 | 364,015 | 22 | Sodexo | 456 | 355,044 | 23 | Target | 100 | 351,000 | 24 | HSBC Holdings | 21 | 331,458 | 25 | Kroger | 82 | 326,000 | 26 | Citigroup | 39 | 324,850 | 27 | Sears Holdings | 160 | 324,000 | 28 | General Electric | 12 | 323,000 | 29 | Hewlett-Packard | 32 | 321,000 | 30 | Toyota Motor | 10 | 320,808 | 31 | ArcelorMittal | 28 | 315,867 | 32 | AT&T | 29 | 302,660 | 33 | China Construction Bank | 125 | 298,581 | 34 | Veolia Environnement | 135 | 297,965 | 35 | La Poste | 280 | 295,742 | 36 | Panasonic | 79 | 292,250 | 37 | Nestlé | 48 | 283,000 | 38 | Robert Bosch | 98 | 281,717 | 39 | Wells Fargo | 141 | 281,000 | 40 | Daimler | 23 | 273,216 | 41 | China Railway Group | 242 | 266,398 | 42 | Home Depot | 90 | 265,650 | 43 | Edeka Zentrale | 391 | 262,241 | 44 | Sberbank | 310 | 259,999 | 45 | China Southern Power Grid | 185 | 259,567 | 46 | Telefónica | 66 | 257,035 | 47 | Metro | 50 | 254,457 | 48 | FedEx | 200 | 254,142 | 49 | Jardine Matheson | 411 | 249,711 | 50 | Bank of China | 145 | 249,278 |
From the July 20, 2009 issue
|
|
|