Top 10 Richest Companies In The World 2012
There are companies that make billions but then there are companies that
make lots of billions dollars. Here is the list of 10 giant billion
dollar maker. The lowest one of them is making 23 million dollars an
hours which accumulated roughly 550 million a day or 380,000 dollars a
minute. How’s that compare to what you getting annually?
State Grid Corporation Of China
Revenue: $226.2 Billion
Industry: Oil and Gas
Employees: 1,564,000
Stock Listing: Government-owned
Headquarters: Xicheng District, Beijing, China
State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC)
is the largest electric utilities company that transmits and
distribution power in China and in the world, headquartered in Xicheng
District, Beijing. For distribution, it has its subsidiaries for
Northern China, Northeastern China, Eastern China, Middle China and
Northwestern China. After the electricity “Plant-Grid Separation” reform
in early 2000, the assets of State Electric Power Corporation , which
included both power plants and electric grid all over mainland China,
were divided into the five “power generation groups” that retained the
power plants, and State Grid Corporation headquartered in Beijing with
its five regional subsidiaries and China Southern Power Grid Corporation
headquartered in Guangzhou, that operate power transmission,
distribution and other assets of the old State Electric Power
Corporation. It was ranked eighth in the 2010 Fortune Global 500 list of
the world’s largest companies by revenue and has moved one place up in
the 2011 Fortune Global 500 list.
Toyota Motors
Revenue 2012: $235.8 Billion Year 2011: $241 Billion
Industry: Automotive
Employees: 316,100
Stock Listing: TYO: 7203
Headquarters: Toyota, Aichi, Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation commonly known simply as Toyota and abbreviated as TMC,
is a multinational automaker headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In
2010, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 317,734 people worldwide . TMC
is the world’s largest automobile manufacturer by sales and production.
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spinoff from his
father’s company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Three years
earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it
created its first product, the Type A engine, and, in 1936, its first
passenger car, the Toyota AA. Toyota Motor Corporation group companies
are Toyota (including the Scion brand), Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino Motors,
along with several “non-automotive” companies. TMC is part of the
Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world. Toyota
Motor Corporation is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi and in Tokyo.
Its Tokyo head office is located at 1-4-18 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
112-8701, Japan. Nagoya Office at 4-7-1 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya
City, Aichi Prefecture. In addition to manufacturing automobiles, Toyota
provides financial services through its Toyota Financial Services
division and also builds robots.
ConocoPhillips
Revenue 2012: $251 Billion
Industry: Oil and Gas
Employees: 29,800
Stock Listing: NYSE: COP
Headquarters: Houston Energy Corridor, Houston, Texas, U.S
ConocoPhillips Company
is an American multinational energy corporation with its headquarters
located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United
States. It is also one of the Fortune 500 companies and 22nd on Forbes
Global 2000.ConocoPhillips is the fifth largest private sector energy
corporation in the world and is one of the six “supermajor” vertically
integrated oil companies. It sells fuel under the Conoco, Phillips 66
and Union 76 brands in North America, and Jet in Europe. ConocoPhillips
was created through the merger of Conoco Inc. and the Phillips Petroleum
Company on August 30, 2002.ConocoPhillips employs approximately 29,600
people worldwide in nearly 40 countries. ConocoPhillips is the
second-largest refiner in the United States, with crude oil processing
capacity of approximately 2.0 MMBD; and the world’s fourth-largest
nongovernment-controlled refiner, with crude oil processing capacity of
nearly 2.7 MMBD globally.
Chevron
Revenue 2012: $253.7 Billion Year 2011: $204 Billion
Industry: Oil and Gas
Employees: 61,500
Stock Listing: SSE: NYSE: CVX
Headquarters: San Ramon, California, United States
Chevron Corporation is
an American multinational energy corporation. Headquartered in San
Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries, it is engaged
in every aspect of the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries,
including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport;
chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. Chevron is one
of the world’s six “supermajor” oil companies. For the past five years,
Chevron has been continuously ranked as one of America’s 5 largest
corporations by Fortune 500. In 2011 it was named the 16th largest
public company in the world by Forbes Global 2000.
Sinopec
Revenue 2012: $273.4Billion Year 2011: $289 Billion
Industry: Oil and Gas
Employees: 400,500
Stock Listing: SSE: 600028, SEHK: 0386
Headquarters: Beijing, China
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation Limited , or Sinopec Limited,
is a majority owned subsidiary of state owned company Sinopec Group.
Sinopec Limited is listed in Hong Kong and also trades in Shanghai and
New York. Sinopec Limited’s parent, Sinopec Group, is one of the major
petroleum companies in China, headquartered in Chaoyang District,
Beijing. Sinopec’s business includes oil and gas exploration, refining,
and marketing; production and sales of petrochemicals, chemical fibers,
chemical fertilizers, and other chemical products; storage and pipeline
transportation of crude oil and natural gas; import, export and
import/export agency business of crude oil, natural gas, refined oil
products, petrochemicals, and other chemicals. In 2011 it ranked as the
5th largest company in sales in Forbes Global 2000.In 2009, it was
ranked 9th by Fortune Global 500 becoming the first Chinese corporation
to make the top ten and in 2010 it was ranked 7th.In 2007, it ranked
first in the Top 500 Enterprises of China ranking.
Vitol
Revenue 2012: $297 Billion
Industry: Raw materials
Employees: 2,700
Stock Listing: Private
Headquarters: Rotterdam, Netherlands, Geneva, Switzerland
The Vitol Group
is a global energy and commodity trading company. It was founded in
Rotterdam in 1966 by Henk Viëtor and Jacques Detiger.Along with Glencore
and Trafigura, Vitol is one of the world’s top three crude oil traders.
The Vitol’s head offices are located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and
Geneva, Switzerland. With 2011 revenues of nearly $297 billion, the
company ships more than 400 million tons of oil per year.
BP
Revenue 2012: $386.4 Billion Year 2011: $297 Billion
Industry: Oil and Gas
Employees: 97,600
Stock Listing: LSE: BP
Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom
BP p.l.c.
is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United
Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest
company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas
“supermajors”. It is vertically-integrated and is active in every area
of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production,
refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation
and trading. It also has major renewable energy activities, including in
biofuels, hydrogen, solar and wind power. BP has operations in over 80
countries, produces around 3.8 million barrels of oil equivalent per day
and has 22,400 service stations worldwide. Its largest division is BP
America, which is the biggest producer of oil and gas in the United
States and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. As at 31 December 2010 it
had total proven commercial reserves of 18.07 billion barrels of oil
equivalent. The name “BP” derives from the initials of one of the
company’s former legal names, British Petroleum. BP’s track
record of corporate social responsibility has been mixed. The company
has been involved in a number of major environmental and safety
incidents and received criticism for its political influence. However,
in 1997, it became the first major oil company to publicly acknowledge
the need to take steps against climate change, and in that year
established a company-wide target to reduce its emissions of greenhouse
gases. BP currently invests over $1 billion per year in the development
of renewable energy sources, and has committed to spend $8 billion on
renewables in the 2005 to 2015 period.
Walmart
Revenue 2012: $446Billion Year 2011: $421.8 Billion
Industry: Retailer
Employees: 2,150,000
Stock Listing: NYSE: WMT
Headquarters: Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart
before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs
chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The
company is the world’s 18th largest public corporation, according to the
Forbes Global 2000 list, and the largest public corporation when ranked
by revenue. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated
on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange
in 1972. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart is also
the largest grocery retailer in the United States. In 2009, it generated
51% of its US$258 billion sales in the U.S. from grocery business. It
also owns and operates the Sam’s Club retail warehouses in North
America. Walmart has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different
names. The company operates under its own name in the United States,
including the 50 states and Puerto Rico. It operates in Mexico as
Walmex, in the United Kingdom as Asda, in Japan as Seiyu, and in India
as Best Price. It has wholly owned operations in Argentina, Brazil, and
Canada. Walmart’s investments outside North America have had mixed
results: its operations in the United Kingdom, South America and China
are highly successful, while it was forced to pull out of Germany and
South Korea when ventures there were unsuccessful.
Royal Dutch Shell
Revenue 2012: $470Billion Year 2011: $368 Billion
Industry: Oil and Gas
Employees: 90,000
Stock Listing: LSE: RDSA
Headquarters: The Hague, Netherlands and London, United Kingdom
Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell,
is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands
and with its registered office at the Shell Centre in London, United
Kingdom. It is the second-largest energy company and the fifth-largest
company in the world according to Forbes Magazine list for 2011. It is
vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas
industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution
and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has
major renewable energy activities, including in biofuels, hydrogen,
solar and wind power. It has operations in over 90 countries, produces
around 3.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has 44,000
service stations worldwide. Shell Oil Company, its subsidiary in the
United States, is one of its largest businesses. Its primary listing is
on the London Stock Exchange and it is a constituent of the FTSE 100
Index. It has secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York
Stock Exchange.
Exxon Mobil
Revenue 2012: $486.4 Billion Year 2011: $370.8 Billion
Industry: Oil and Gas
Employees: 82,000
Stock Listing: NYSE: XOM
Headquarters: Irving, Texas, United States
Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil,
is an American multinational oil and gas corporation. It is a direct
descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil company, and was formed
on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. Its
headquarters are in Irving, Texas. It is affiliated with Imperial Oil
which operates in Canada. ExxonMobil is one of the largest publicly
traded companies in the world, having been ranked either #1 or #2 for
the past 5 years. However they are currently 4th according to Forbes
Global 2000. Exxon Mobil’s reserves were 72 billion oil-equivalent
barrels at the end of 2007 and, at then (2007) rates of production, are
expected to last over 14 years. With 37 oil refineries in 21 countries
constituting a combined daily refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels,
Exxon Mobil is the largest refiner in the world, a title that was also
associated with Standard Oil since its incorporation in 1870. ExxonMobil
is the largest of the six oil super-majors-with daily production of
3.921 million BOE (barrels of oil equivalent). In 2008, this was
approximately 3% of world production, which is less than several of the
largest state-owned petroleum companies. When ranked by oil and gas
reserves it is 14th in the world with less than 1% of the total.
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