Business week published the world's top 1200 ranked companies Microsoft third

Beijing on December 19th news, will be published in December 26th the "business weekly" magazine selected the world's top 1200 enterprises. With the rise in oil prices, the oil company's ranking rose sharply, but the ranking of top multinational companies is relatively stable. Of the top eight companies this year, there are about the same as last year's ten.

Business week, the world's top 1200 companies ranked on the basis of the company's market value, including general electric, Exxon Mobil Corp and Microsoft's market capitalization of $1 trillion. Compared with last year's ranking, health products manufacturers Johnson and consumer products manufacturers Procter & Gamble to replace the financial services giant HSBC Holdings and pharmaceutical manufacturers Pfizer, entered the ranks of the top ten. The ranking of top multinational companies is relatively stable, mainly because fund managers are more inclined to buy their shares in order to circumvent the potential risks of the stock market.

A careful analysis of the "business week" magazine selected the world's top 1200 companies, you can have a deeper understanding of global companies. For example, Elan, the Irish drug maker, fell to 1009 place this year, down from a year earlier, perhaps the most obvious decline in a company in. In February, Elan's share price fell 68% in a day, as the company's drug was linked to the deaths of more than three. In 2002, Elan was close to bankruptcy because of accounting scandals.

This year, the fastest growing company is the Australian real estate developer Westfield group, the company's 285 place this year, representing an increase of 458 last year. Because of the amazing pace of expansion, Westfield group has become the darling of fund managers. After the Westfield group is the French Alstom company, its ranking of 751 this year, compared with last year, an increase of 419. Alstom was close to bankruptcy in 2003, but after the French government's $3 billion 800 million bailout, the company finally turned a profit this year.

In 2005, the total market value of the world's top 1200 companies in Business Week nearly $24 trillion, an increase of 10% compared to 2004. Not all of the world's largest companies are ranked as the top companies are all from the S & P. For example, Google's current market capitalization of nearly $128 billion, but because it is not the standard & Poor's global 1200 index constituent stocks, and therefore was not included in the business week, the world's top 1200 companies.

In the top fifty companies, the United States accounted for half of the company, while the European and Japanese companies to divide the remaining seats. In addition to Japanese companies in Asia, South Korea's consumer electronics company Samsung Electronics ranked highest, up from 48 last year to the top 32. Samsung Electronics R & D spending will reach $5 billion 200 million this year, the proportion of sales in excess of IBM, Motorola, SONY and Canon, such as R & d known international giants. In Chinese mainland enterprises, mobile ranking of 36, up 24 over last year; CNOOC ranked 204 this year, up 164 over last year; the PetroChina Co Ltd's ranking of 370, 553 last year; Chinese Unicom's ranking of 607 to 563 years.

Attachment: "business week" global top 1200 enterprises (top ten):

2005 ranking

2004 ranking

company

Country

market value

One

One

General Electric

U.S.A

377 billion 420 million dollars

Two

Two

Exxon Mobil

U.S.A

361 billion 90 million dollars

Three

Three

Microsoft

U.S.A

294 billion 650 million dollars

Four

Four

Citigroup

U.S.A

245 billion 610 million dollars

Five

Six

BP

Britain

236 billion 230 million dollars

Six

Eight

Shell oil

Britain

211 billion 790 million dollars

Seven

Six

Wal-Mart

U.S.A

202 billion 140 million dollars

Eight

Eighteen

Procter & Gamble

U.S.A

195 billion 440 million dollars

Nine

Nine

Bank of America

U.S.A

184 billion 160 million dollars

Ten

Twelve

Johnson

U.S.A

183 billion 710 million dollars