The Billion $ Companies
We have noticed that people get confused between various lists like the Fortune 1000 or Forbes list or Global lists and companies with $1billion or more. Keeping track of all this isn’t easy because definitions change and the market is constantly moving.
Here’s a couple of guidelines and one of the market moving elements.
The Fortune 1000 is a rank order (by revenue) of US public companies. Wal-Mart was #1 with $351 million. The last one on the list was NCI Building with $1.57 billion.
The Global 500 is the largest 500 public companies around the world. Wal-Mart was also #1 on that list. Bombardier was #500 on that list with $14.8 billion.
The Forbes list is the largest private companies in the US with $1 billion or more of revenue. Koch Industries was #1 on that list with $90 billion. There are 424 companies on that list.
That’s a lot of different combinations… and even with that, the Global 5000 company database has another 765 companies not on any of those lists but have more than $1 billion of revenue.
And now to the moving target challenge. In 2007, another 59 grew into the $1 billion range. We also have 38 companies that had $1 billion or more in 2006 revenue that have been acquired. These are listed below.
Agere Systems
Alcan
Andrew Corporation
Caremark Rx
Compass Bancshares
Dade Behring Holdings, Inc.
EGL
Gateway, Inc.
Giant Industries
Gold Kist Holdings
Laidlaw International
Lucent Technologies
Mellon Financial Corp.
Ohio Casualty Corporation
Phelps Dodge
San Paolo IMIÿ
Solectron
Washington Group International
Wheeling-Pittsburgh
WPS Resources
Abitibi-Consolidated
Armor Holdings
Gallaher Group
MedImmune
Rinker Group
Hanover Compressor Company
GlobalSantaFe
Harland (John H)
Covalence Specialty Materials
Genlyte Group
JLG Industries
Petro Stopping Centers
Great American Financial Resources
Sky Financial Group
Shell Canada
Lone Star Technologies, Inc.
Ipsco, Inc.
Applebee’s International Inc.
Tags: Billion dollar companies, Fortune 1000 list, Global 5000 companies
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