In the list of world major companies from Forbes 12 Russian

For the first time, the American magazine for the first time published a list of 2000 largest companies in the world. Unlike other lists, where corporations are ranking one indicator, Forbes evaluated the companies at once for four. The income, profit, assets and capitalization of the company was taken into account.

The rating was headed by a banking corporation from the United States Citigroup. In second place is General Electric, in the third - American Intl Group. The ranking of 12 Russian companies. The leader among them, of course, is Gazprom, which enters the first hundred in 87th place. It is followed by Lukoil (184th place), RAO UES (219th), Yukos, Surgutneftegaz, Sberbank, Sibneft and Norilskell.

The Forbes list includes 2000 companies from 51 countries and 27 industries; They work 64 million people. Their total income amounted to 19 trillion dollars, profit - 760 billion, assets - 68 trillion, market capitalization - $ 24 trillion, Vedomosti reports.

The most famous Rankings of the largest companies are: according to market capitalization - the newspaper Financial Times (500 world companies), and income - Fortune magazine (500 US companies). The Banker magazine ratings of 1000 world capital banks and assets.

It is interesting that Microsoft, which took 1st place in the FT-500, received only 31st, despite the capitalization of 287 billion. The company brought revenue (modest $ 34.27 billion) and assets (85.94 billion).

The first pancake forbes did not do without a coma. The largest mobile operator of Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, MTS, did not fall into the list, although all the indicators are 2-3 times higher than that of Vimpelcom, which is in 1820. The editor of the magazine Scott Descarli called this a fatal accident: "MTS, of course, should be on the list." For the selection of companies, I used the WorldScope database, which gives information on 32,000 world companies, and it had problems with Russia, Description explains.