Global 500

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Countries

Country Rank	Company	Global 500 rank	City	Revenues ($ millions)
1	Manulife Financial	208	Toronto	35,144
2	Royal Bank of Canada	228	Toronto	32,610
3	Power Corp. of Canada	271	Montreal	29,050
4	George Weston	285	Toronto	28,009
5	Sun Life Financial	347	Toronto	24,160
6	Suncor Energy	385	Calgary	22,327
7	Onex	400	Toronto	21,758
8	Toronto-Dominion Bank	401	Toronto	21,733
9	Bank of Nova Scotia	414	Toronto	21,428
10	Bombardier	448	Montreal	19,366
11	Magna International	488	Aurora	17,367

From the July 26, 2010 issue

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Country	# of GLOBAL 500 Companies

Australia	8
Austria	3
Belgium	5
Belgium/Netherlands	1
Brazil	7
Britain	29
Britain/Netherlands	1
Canada	11
China	46
Denmark	2

Finland	1
France	39
Germany	37
India	8
Ireland	2
Italy	11

Japan	71
Luxembourg	1
Malaysia	1
Mexico	2
Netherlands	13
Norway	1
Poland	1
Russia	6

Saudi Arabia	1
Singapore	2
South Korea	10
Spain	10
Sweden	5
Switzerland	15
Taiwan	8
Thailand	1
Turkey	1
U.S.	139
Venezuela	1

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Rank # of Global 500 Companies
U.S.	139
Japan	71
China	46

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Company	2009 Number of Employees
Wal-Mart Stores	2,100,000
China National Petroleum	1,649,992
State Grid	1,533,800

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Company	2009 Profits ($ millions)
Gazprom	$24,556
Exxon Mobil	$19,280
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	$18,832

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