Top 100 Corporations

04.08.09, 06:00 PM EDT

Because you should just know this information…

Rank	Company	Country	Industry	Sales ($bil)	Profits ($bil)	Assets ($bil)	Market Value ($bil)
1	General Electric	United States	Conglomerates	182.52	17.41	797.77	89.87
2	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands	Oil & Gas Operations	458.36	26.28	278.44	135.10
3	Toyota Motor	Japan	Consumer Durables	263.42	17.21	324.98	102.35
4	ExxonMobil	United States	Oil & Gas Operations	425.70	45.22	228.05	335.54
5	BP	United Kingdom	Oil & Gas Operations	361.14	21.16	228.24	119.70
6	HSBC Holdings	United Kingdom	Banking	142.05	5.73	2,520.45	85.04
7	AT&T	United States	Telecommunications Services	124.03	12.87	265.25	140.08
8	Wal-Mart Stores	United States	Retailing	405.61	13.40	163.43	193.15
9	Banco Santander	Spain	Banking	96.23	13.25	1,318.86	49.75
9	Chevron	United States	Oil & Gas Operations	255.11	23.93	161.17	121.70
11	Total	France	Oil & Gas Operations	223.15	14.74	164.66	112.90
12	ICBC	China	Banking	53.60	11.16	1,188.08	170.83
13	Gazprom	Russia	Oil & Gas Operations	97.29	26.78	276.81	74.55
14	PetroChina	China	Oil & Gas Operations	114.32	19.94	145.14	270.56
15	Volkswagen Group	Germany	Consumer Durables	158.40	6.52	244.05	75.18
16	JPMorgan Chase	United States	Banking	101.49	3.70	2,175.05	85.87
17	GDF Suez	France	Utilities	115.59	9.05	232.71	70.46
18	ENI	Italy	Oil & Gas Operations	158.32	12.91	139.80	80.68
19	Berkshire Hathaway	United States	Diversified Financials	107.79	4.99	267.40	122.11
20	Vodafone	United Kingdom	Telecommunications Services	70.39	13.30	252.08	93.66
21	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial	Japan	Banking	61.43	6.38	1,931.17	53.63
22	Procter & Gamble	United States	Household & Personal Products	83.68	14.08	138.26	141.18
23	CCB-China Construction Bank	China	Banking	42.98	9.45	903.35	119.03
24	Verizon Communications	United States	Telecommunications Services	97.35	6.43	202.35	81.04
25	Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil	Brazil	Oil & Gas Operations	92.08	14.12	120.68	110.97
26	Nippon Telegraph & Tel	Japan	Telecommunications Services	107.02	6.36	179.95	59.07
27	EDF Group	France	Utilities	89.46	4.73	278.76	71.53
28	IBM	United States	Software & Services	103.63	12.34	109.53	123.47
29	BNP Paribas	France	Banking	107.96	4.20	2,888.73	29.98
30	Bank of China	China	Banking	40.10	7.70	817.84	105.04
31	Telefónica	Spain	Telecommunications Services	80.70	10.57	129.16	85.56
32	Nestlé	Switzerland	Food, Drink & Tobacco	103.01	16.91	97.12	118.99
33	Sinopec-China Petroleum	China	Oil & Gas Operations	154.28	7.43	100.41	93.50
34	Crédit Agricole	France	Banking	107.75	5.90	2,064.17	21.91
35	Siemens	Germany	Conglomerates	108.76	8.05	128.46	44.18
36	Hewlett-Packard	United States	Technology Hardware & Equip	118.70	8.05	109.63	69.57
37	Intesa Sanpaolo	Italy	Banking	50.56	10.58	835.15	31.43
38	Bank of America	United States	Banking	113.11	4.01	1,817.94	25.29
39	Honda Motor	Japan	Consumer Durables	120.27	6.01	124.98	44.32
40	BBVA-Banco Bilbao Vizcaya	Spain	Banking	56.51	6.99	747.99	27.56
41	ArcelorMittal	Luxembourg	Materials	124.94	9.40	133.09	26.80
42	Johnson & Johnson	United States	Drugs & Biotechnology	63.75	12.95	84.91	138.29
43	ENEL	Italy	Utilities	82.92	7.37	177.21	31.00
44	UniCredit Group	Italy	Banking	83.72	8.70	1,482.98	18.37
45	Generali Group	Italy	Insurance	118.39	4.26	546.50	21.35
46	France Telecom	France	Telecommunications Services	74.50	5.67	125.32	58.92
47	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	Semiconductors	104.42	7.87	99.47	45.82
48	Deutsche Bank	Germany	Diversified Financials	124.78	9.47	2,946.88	14.40
49	Microsoft	United States	Software & Services	61.98	17.23	65.79	143.58
50	Pfizer	United States	Drugs & Biotechnology	48.30	8.10	111.15	83.03
51	Wells Fargo	United States	Banking	51.65	2.66	1,309.64	51.28
52	BHP Billiton	Australia/United Kingdom	Materials	59.47	15.39	72.40	96.65
53	StatoilHydro	Norway	Oil & Gas Operations	93.38	6.20	82.42	53.30
54	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial	Japan	Banking	46.06	4.62	1,114.89	25.56
55	China Mobile	Hong Kong/China	Telecommunications Services	47.09	11.49	76.42	175.85
56	Goldman Sachs Group	United States	Diversified Financials	53.58	2.32	884.55	42.06
57	RWE Group	Germany	Utilities	66.16	3.56	127.64	33.68
58	Roche Holding	Switzerland	Drugs & Biotechnology	42.75	8.41	69.77	98.47
59	Commonwealth Bank	Australia	Banking	34.98	4.58	467.83	28.01
60	Société Générale Group	France	Banking	99.25	2.80	1,572.73	17.77
61	Novartis	Switzerland	Drugs & Biotechnology	42.01	8.30	73.22	82.97
62	E.ON	Germany	Utilities	120.74	1.76	215.15	47.44
63	Deutsche Telekom	Germany	Telecommunications Services	85.89	2.07	162.51	52.96
64	Rosneft	Russia	Oil & Gas Operations	46.99	11.12	77.40	34.07
65	Mizuho Financial	Japan	Banking	42.29	3.12	1,545.23	21.46
65	Sanofi-aventis	France	Drugs & Biotechnology	38.40	5.36	96.01	67.84
67	National Australia Bank	Australia	Banking	41.87	3.58	515.83	21.90
68	Royal Bank of Canada	Canada	Banking	30.01	3.52	575.21	34.29
69	Cisco Systems	United States	Technology Hardware & Equip	39.58	7.49	61.36	85.05
69	Rio Tinto	UK/Australia	Materials	54.26	3.68	88.25	39.42
71	Tesco	United Kingdom	Food Markets	93.85	4.21	59.80	37.50
72	China Life Insurance	China	Insurance	26.20	5.32	127.83	83.26
73	Mitsubishi Corp	Japan	Trading Companies	60.43	4.64	117.84	20.89
74	Vale	Brazil	Materials	30.75	9.28	79.26	66.14
75	Munich Re	Germany	Insurance	64.20	2.09	291.87	24.29
76	Lukoil	Russia	Oil & Gas Operations	66.86	9.51	59.14	26.62
77	Barclays	United Kingdom	Banking	59.82	6.40	2,947.84	11.15
78	Banco Bradesco	Brazil	Banking	39.97	3.26	194.51	26.75
79	Unilever	Netherlands/UK	Food, Drink & Tobacco	56.44	7.00	48.75	58.24
80	BASF	Germany	Chemicals	86.77	4.06	69.41	25.62
81	Nokia	Finland	Technology Hardware & Equip	70.63	5.55	52.29	35.32
82	Sony	Japan	Technology Hardware & Equip	88.89	3.70	124.12	17.12
83	CVS Caremark	United States	Retailing	87.47	3.21	60.96	37.46
83	Daimler	Germany	Consumer Durables	133.43	1.88	180.08	21.21
85	United Technologies	United States	Conglomerates	58.68	4.69	56.47	38.53
86	Saudi Basic Industries	Saudi Arabia	Chemicals	40.62	5.87	72.39	31.44
87	Iberdrola	Spain	Utilities	35.09	3.98	114.81	32.42
88	Nissan Motor	Japan	Consumer Durables	108.46	4.83	119.00	14.14
89	Panasonic	Japan	Technology Hardware & Equip	90.87	2.82	71.85	28.93
90	MetLife	United States	Insurance	50.99	3.21	501.68	15.10
91	Westpac Banking Group	Australia	Banking	25.90	3.05	346.22	31.40
92	GlaxoSmithKline	United Kingdom	Drugs & Biotechnology	35.55	6.72	52.67	79.06
93	Morgan Stanley	United States	Diversified Financials	62.26	1.71	658.81	21.00
94	Telecom Italia	Italy	Telecommunications Services	41.97	3.08	117.81	23.82
95	Intel	United States	Semiconductors	37.59	5.29	50.72	70.86
96	Zurich Financial Services	Switzerland	Insurance	32.35	3.04	325.04	19.60
97	Mitsui & Co	Japan	Trading Companies	57.50	4.11	97.15	17.12
98	Comcast	United States	Media	34.26	2.55	113.02	37.62
99	AXA Group	France	Insurance	156.95	1.28	936.92	19.47
100	Bayer Group	Germany	Chemicals	45.85	2.55	71.39	36.97

Microsoft… His name is Steve Ballmar (If you didn’t know him, now you do!)

Oh boy, If you don’t know him… here’s the quick 411: Steve Ballmer is CEO of Microsoft and is the second person after Roberto Goizueta(Former CEO of Coke, who died in 1997) to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. In Forbes 2008 World’s Richest People ranking, Ballmer was ranked the 43rd richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $11 billion.

Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft’s 24th employee, the first business manager hired by Gates.  He was initially offered a salary of $50,000 as well as a percentage of ownership of the company. When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8 percent of the company.   In January 2000, he was officially named chief executive officer. As CEO Ballmer handled company finances, however Gates still retained control of the “technological vision.” In 2003, Ballmer sold 8.3% of his shareholdings, leaving him with a 4% stake in the company.  The same year, Ballmer replaced Microsoft’s employee stock options program. While CEO of Microsoft in 2008, he earned a total compensation of $1,350,834, which included a base salary of $640,833, and a cash bonus of $700,000.  (He’s also a Harvard Graduate… FYI)

Steve Ballmar Four Words: “I Love this Company”

Steve Ballmar Laughing on the Apple iPhone