[/engl/] (submit me) ProRetail Club (archive of the sessions) Marketing researches (available only in russian) Job Ukrainian Retail Portal Our partners EHI Retail Institute European Retail Academy National Association of trade development and service Ukrainian Trade Guild News next... previous... Wal-Mart is ahead of whole world FORTUNE announced today that Wal-Mart Stores reclaimed the top spot on the latest FORTUNE Global 500 list after an 11% increase in revenueЧremaining the only retailer in the top ten. Rounding out the top ten are No. 2 Exxon Mobil (U.S.); No. 3 Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands); No. 4 BP (Britain); No. 5 General Motors (U.S.); No. 6 Toyota Motor (Japan); No. 7 Chevron (U.S.); No. 8 DaimlerChrysler (Germany); No. 9 ConocoPhillips (U.S.); and No. 10 Total (France). The list and accompanying stories will appear in the July 23 issue of FORTUNE, available on newsstands July 16 and online at www.fortune.com July 12. УJust a few years ago FORTUNE was predicting that high-flying tech companies would soon displace the oil and auto giants that had been hogging the limelight at the top of the Global 500,Ф says FORTUNE reporter Telis Demos in his introduction to the list. УWell, look whoТs still riding high: Six of the top ten companies on this yearТs list are pumping petroleum, and three more are making vehicles that burn it. True, Wal-Mart regained its title as the worldТs largest company, at $351.1 billion in revenueЕBut the big story was oil.Ф While petroleum ruled the top ten, banking had a strong year. Ten of the top 25 companies are financial services firms, led by ING Group in the No. 13 spot. And thanks to a global M&A boom that paid out $11 billion in fees, the securities industry grew 45% by revenue in 2006. That lifted Morgan Stanley (No. 61), Merrill Lynch (No. 70), and Goldman Sachs (No. 72) into the top 75 for the first time. FinanceТs strong showing wasnТt limited to Wall Street; Europe and AsiaТs financial companies also prospered. SpainТs BBVA (No. 163), ItalyТs UniCredit Group (No. 97), and GermanyТs Commerzbank (No. 216) all completed cross-border acquisitions. Chinese banks, led by Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (No. 170), which boasted the worldТs largest public offering in 2006, also made a big splash. While the U.S. remains the worldТs locomotive of economic growthЧits 162 companies on the Global 500 account for more than a third of total revenueЧdeveloping economies are increasingly driving growth in many sectors, including commodities, mining, and construction. Construction-materials companies such as IrelandТs CRH (No. 293), FranceТs Lafarge (No. 295), and SwitzerlandТs Holcim (No. 372) all rose at least 30 places in the ranking because of building booms in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, China, and India. China, the worldТs fourth-largest economy by GDP, added four companies to the list, more than any other country, bringing its total to 24. The new entrants include China Minmetals (No. 435) and China National Offshore Oil (No. 469). After Toyota, AsiaТs next three largest corporations are now Chinese. But Japan still boasts nearly three times as many companies above the Global 500Тs $14.9 billion revenue threshold. Overall, revenues for the Global 500 companies were up 10.4% over the previous year, and profits were up 25.9%. businesswire.com - contact with editor next... Comment: Enter control text: Enter comment! previous... 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