Fortune magazine’s America has just published annual list of 500 largest companies in the world. This year, retail group Wal-Mart in the U.S. continue to heads this list.

Here is the Top 5 largest companies in the world according to Fortune’s ranking.

1. Wal-Mart

Last year, this group has a total of 2,055,000 employees, turnover of 378,799 billion USD, profit 12,731 billion USD. Assets of the Wal-Mart in 2007 was 163,514 billion USD.

Last year, Wal-Mart achieved many major steps in improving the quality of life for workers and environmental protection.

Long, retail stores in the U.S. was rated low in the field of health care for employees, employers are therefore more efforts in this field. Up to 1 year, there were 93,7% employees of Wal-Mart is entitled to the health care, compared with an increase rate of 90.4% of the previous year.

In the field of environmental protection, within 15 months, Wal-Mart has sold 145 million light bulbs save energy and join the Climate Initiative Clinton ..

Despite the criticism Wal-Mart still has not satisfied with the efforts of this, manufacturers have been making of our customers satisfied. Group continues to focus on the products cheap in the context of the U.S. economy go down. Thus the sales of Wal-Mart increasing 7.9% and profits increase was 12.8% compared with the previous year.

2. Exxon Mobil

Last year, Exxon Mobil also stands in second position in the list of 500 largest companies in the world of Fortune. Month 3 recently, American corporations have participated in a project worth 5 billion USD corporations with Saudi Aramco of Saudi Arabia and China’s Sinopec to expand the operation of a project available in Fujian, forming and oil projects 100% foreign capital first in China.

Exxon had a one-year operation was quite successful, however, the cost of higher oil filter has led corporations to some extent affected. In 2007, group profits reached 40.6 billion mill USD, but have only increased 2.8% compared with the previous year. Meanwhile, sales reached 372,824 billion USD, an increase of 7.4%. Total assets of Exxon in 2007 was 242,082 billion USD. Group has 107,100 employees.

3. Royal Dutch Shell

In 2006, corporations from the Netherlands also stands in 3rd position in the list of 500 largest companies in the world of Fortune.

Faces energy crisis, Shell has in particular to ensure the future of the corporation. Two major projects of Shell in the past year include buying back the 22% share of Shell Canada, to expand access of corporations with resources giant oil sand in Alberta and continue to promote projects to build houses machine liquefied gas in Qatar.

However, unfortunately for Shell, shares of the firm in one of the project is the largest project to exploit oil in Sakhalin, Russia, the level was reduced from 55% to 27% by the Government to strengthen Russian control sector oil and gas industry.

Shell has 104,400 employees, sales reached 355,782 billion USD, an increase of 11.5% compared with 2006 and profits reached USD 31,331 billion, an increase of 23.1%. Shell assets of up to the end of 2007 the number reached 269,470 billion dollars.

4. BP

In 2007 a wave in the wind for corporations bring “nationality” This England. Shell was forced to upgrade the factory oil filter Whitting in the United States after the factory was blamed in violation of regulations on the environment. The departure of CEO John Brown also is a big problem for BP in the past year.

However, investments 2.4 billion USD in San Juan (USA) and projects of oil and gas exploration in deep water Gulf of Mexico is predicted to bring results in improved business for BP in recent years upcoming.

With 97,600 employees, in 2007, BP achieved revenue USD 291,438 billion, an increase of 6.2%. Meanwhile, the profits of corporations have only reached 20,845 billion USD, decreased 5.3%. Assets of BP up to the end of last year was 236,076 billion USD.

5. Toyota

Car manufacturers in Japan is “emerging” star “in Top 5 largest companies in the world this year. Down the slopes of the Automotive Industry My bring advantages for Toyota. Global sales of Toyota in the last year have only poor automobile manufacturers the world’s largest General Motors (GM) of the United States has 3,000 vehicles.

However, in the American market, Toyota has completely “winning” before the GM when GM’s sales decreased 6% while Toyota’s sales increased 3.1%. Toyota has been the main “Had the vaccine” GM in the list this year, when that position last year is No. 5 in GM.

In 2007, sales of Toyota reached 230.2 billion USD, up 12.4%, while profits reached USD 15,042 billion, an increase of 7%. Employers have 316,121 employees and assets to raise $ 326,099.

* In addition to the 5 joint, in the top 10 list this year, there is a corporation Chevron oil fires in the U.S., the company’s financial ING Netherlands, leading fire Total of France, car manufacturers GM in the U.S., and ConocoPhillips oil fires delegation of the United States.

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