2008 Fortune Global 500 Ranking (1-100)

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The Global Fortune 500, a list of the worlds largest corporations as compiled by Fortune magazine, is a widely recognized ranking of the 500 wealthiest and most powerful companies around the globe.

After publication by the magazine, the annual list of the worlds largest companies is rarely forgotten. Whether you want to find out the companies with the biggest assets, the ones generating the largest revenues, the ones that are the most profitable, or just about the companies that the worlds financial elite have deemed the most successful, look no further than the Global Fortune 500 list.

The top 100 spots on the Global Fortune 500 list for 2008 were held by an elite group of multinational companies. The top 10 spots were filled by oil and gas behemoth ExxonMobil, American automotive giant General Motors, followed by Bank of America, Royal Dutch Shell, Wal-Mart, BP, Toyota, Citigroup, Chevron, and Honda, respectively.

In total, America claimed the top 3 spots, while Europe took spots seven (Shell) and ten (Honda). Japan held spots five (Toyota), six (Citigroup), and nine (Chevron), while BP was the sole representative from the United Kingdom in the top 10.

Other companies that earned a spot in the top 100 of the 2008 Global Fortune 500 included J.P. Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Intel, AT&T, Walmart, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Pemex, Volkswagen, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, and Dell.

In addition to the major international companies, multinational banking and financial groups such as HSBC, UBS, Allianz, and AXA also earned spots in the rankings. So did Japanese holding company Mitsubishi and investments banks like Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.

The rankings used in the Global Fortune 500 are determined by the magazine in terms of three financial criteria – total revenue, profits, and total assets. Therefore, the companies that appear at the top of the list arent necessarily the wealthiest or the most powerful companies in the world; they are simply those companies that are most successful in terms of those criteria.

While it is difficult to compare companies of different industries, these rankings give a good picture of the size and power of the worlds largest companies. Regardless of the sector or region in which the companies operate, the Global Fortune 500 list of 2008 is a testament to the achievements of the worlds multinational corporations.

In 2008, Fortune Magazine published its Global 500 list. This list ranks the top 500 global companies by revenue. The top 100 companies from the 2008 list are as follows.

1) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

2) Exxon Mobil Corporation

3) Royal Dutch Shell

4) BP p.l.c.

5) Toyota Motor Corporation

6) Sinopec Group

7) State Grid

8) Chevron Corporation

9) Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group

10) ConocoPhillips

11) Honda Motor Co.

12) ENI

13) JX Holding

14) Total

15) Volkswagen

16) China Construction Bank Corporation

17) Bank of America Corporation

18) Volkswagen Group

19) Citigroup Inc.

20) China National Petroleum Corporation

21) Allianz SE

22) Deutsche Bank AG

23) General Electric

24) Siemens AG

25) Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

26) Tesco plc

27) AXA

28) Nippon Telegraph & Telephone

29) Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

30) Coal India Limited

31) E.ON

32) Mitsubishi Corporation

33) BASF

34) Oracle Corporation

35) God Gomex

36) Dell Inc.

37) Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

38) Express Scripts, Inc.

39) BMW Group

40) POSCO

41) Aviva plc

42) GDF Suez

43) Mitsui & Co.

44) Honda Motor Co. Ltd

45) State Farm Insurance Companies

46) Microsoft Corporation

47) Johnson & Johnson

48) China Life Insurance Co. Ltd

49) Nestlé S.A.

50) Pemex

51) Johnson Controls, Inc.

52) Statoil ASA

53) Zurich Financial Services

54) UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

55) FedEx Corporation

56) Abbot Laboratories

57) Daimler AG

58) Archer-Daniels-Midland Company

59) Toshiba Corporation

60) Credit Suisse Group

61) PTT Public Company Limited

62) Carrefour S.A.

63) Royal Ahold

64) Canon Inc.

65) Kroger Co.

66) Lockheed Martin Corporation

67) Bank of China Ltd

68) Procter & Gamble Co.

69) LUKOIL

70) Kraft Foods Inc.

71) Amgen Inc.

72) Boeing

73) Intemational Business Machines (IBM)

74) Valero Energy Corporation

75) Hitachi, Ltd.

76) Suncor Energy Inc.

77) UPS

78) MetLife Inc.

79) Walgreen Co.

80) PepsiCo Inc.

81) Wal-Mart de Mexico S.A.B. de C.V.

82) ING Groep NV

83) Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

84) Oracle Financial Services

85) Koc Holding A.S.

86) Saint-Gobain

87) Commonwealth Bank of Australia

88) United Technologies Corporation

89) Nippon Steel Corporation

90) ChevronTexaco Corporation

91) Total SA

92) KAERSK

93) Astellas Pharmaceutical

94) Pioneer Corporation

95) Banco Bradesco S.A.

96) Petronas

97) Intel Corporation

98) RWE

99) BHP Billiton

100) JPMorgan Chase & Co.