10 Irish Companies on Forbes World Biggest List
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Earlier this year Forbes reported on the 2000 biggest companies in the world.
According to the Forbes website
These 2000 companies based across 60 countries, account for $30 trillion in revenues, $2.4 trillion in profits, $119 trillion in assets, $39 trillion in market value and employ 72 million people worldwide.
Not surprisingly Banking dominates in terms of numbers with 315 entries with Oil and Gas a somewhat distant second with 123 entries. The country with the most entries is the US although countries such as China, India and Brazil are rapidly catching up when compared with previous lists.
Ireland has ten entries in total with five in the top 1000.