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The top 10 Revenue Companies in 2018

THE TOP 10 REVENUES ($M)

1  Walmart                       $500,343

2  State Grid                    $348,903

3  Sinopec Group                $326,953

4  China National Petroleum $326,008

5  Royal Dutch Shell         $311,870

6 Toyota Motor                 $265,172

7 Volkswagen                 $260,028

8  BP                        $244,582

9  Exxon Mobil                $244,363

10 Berkshire Hathaway            $242,137

Source: as per fortune 

Top companies in the world. 2010 and brief details
Scores based on their rankings for sales, profits, assets and market value. General Electric ended HSBC Holdings’ one-year reign as the world’s largest company. 

General Electric (GE)

Industry: Conglomerate, U.S.
"We are going to solve tough customer and global problems and make money solving it," Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE.
Imagination at work, says the GE tagline. Innovation and research are the strongholds of GE. In 1969, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon wearing boots made of GE's silicone rubber. GE has four strong businesses in the financial services, infrastructure, and media markets
The Compay Ranked second last year, General Electric is now the world’s largest company, based on its composite score for sales, profits, assets, and market value.

Royal Dutch Shell

Industry: Oil and gas operations, U.K.
Its $458 billion in revenues puts this integrated petroleum company in first place in sales and second in our Global 2000 composite ranking based on sales, profits, assets, and market value.

Toyota Motor

Industry: Consumer Durables, Japan
Japan’s Toyota Motor, with a market capital of $102 billion, it is the world’s highest-ranked auto company on the Global 2000.
ExxonMobil
Industry: Oil and gas operations, U.S.
Despite record profits of $45.2 billion at ExxonMobil, the U.S. company slipped behind Royal Dutch Shell in its overall Global 2000 ranking. The reason: Royal Dutch ranked higher in both revenues and assets.

 BP

Industry: Oil and gas operations, U.K.
This U.K. petroleum giant is in fifth place worldwide for profits as well as its Global 2000 composite ranking

 HSBC Holdings

Industry: Banking, U.K.
After a one-year reign at the head of the Global 2000, this international banking giant fell back to the sixth position.

HSBC Holdings

"We have a clear strategy, it is focused on investing and developing our powerful emerging markets franchises. We will continue to do that," Stephen Green, chairman, HSBC.
The 'world's local bank' is HSBC's tagline. Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world. It comprises of over 10,000 offices in 83 countries across Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa. HSBC is listed on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges.
Shares in HSBC Holdings plc are held by around 200,000 shareholders. HSBC offers a range of financial services: personal financial services, commercial banking, corporate, investment banking and markets and private banking. HSBC Holdings has reported sales to the tune of $146.50 billion and profits of $19.13 billion in 2007
History: The HSBC Group is named after its founding member, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, which was established in 1865 to finance the growing trade between Europe, India and China. The inspiration behind the founding of the bank was Thomas Sutherland, who was then working for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Seeing the potential of local banking facilities in Hong Kong and on the China coast and he helped to establish the bank which opened in Hong Kong in March 1865 and in Shanghai a month later.

AT&T

Industry: Telecom services, U.S.
Last year, AT&T scored a 7.7% increase in profits on only a 4.3% gain in revenues
Wal-Mart Stores Industry: Retailing, U.S.
The economic downturn worked in favor of the world’s largest retailer, which climbed from 16th last year to the eighth this year on its Global 2000 ranking.
 Banco Santander Industry: Banking, Spain
Its acquisition of Alliance and Leicester of the U.K. helped this bank, headquartered in Madrid, shoot up in rank on the Global 2000.
Chevron Industry: Oil and gas operations, U.S.
This U.S. integrated oil giant ties with Banco Santander of Spain for ninth place on a composite ranking of sales, profits, assets and market value.

"Bank of America helps build strong communities by creating opportunities for people - including customers, shareholders and associates - to fulfill their dreams." Kenneth D. Lewis, chairman, CEO and president.
Bank of America is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits and also second largest by market capitalisation. The bank also offers talking ATMs which help customers who are visually impaired. The Bank of America sales are at $119.9 billion and profits are at 14.98 billion in 2007
History

JPMorgan Chase

"Our expectation is for the economic environment to continue to be weak � in spite of the environment, we are confident that we are building an increasingly strong and profitable company." James Dimon
JPMorgan Chase is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.8 trillion. With an employee strength of 1,80,000, the company operates in more than 60 countries.
It is a leading player in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. JPMorgan Chase reported sales to the tune of $116.35 billion and profits stood at $15.37 billion in 2007. Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase.

 Royal Dutch Shell

"This is a very exciting - though daunting - time for our industry. The world is racing ahead with ever-increasing energy needs. We are under pressure to keep up. But this race does not have only one winner. This is a race all of us must win." Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell.
Royal Dutch Shell is an MNC oil company with Dutch and British origins. It is the second largest private sector energy corporation in the world, and one of the six oil supermajors. The company's headquarters are in The Hague, Netherlands, with its registered office in London (Shell Centre).
JPMorgan Chase & Co., was founded in New York in 1799. The firm is built on the foundation of nearly 1,000 institutions that have come together over the years to form today�s company. JPMorgan Chase traces its beginnings to the Bank of The Manhattan Company, which was founded by Aaron Burr in 1799 and became one of the leading banking institutions in the Country.
In the 1800s, many new banks were formed across America. JPMorgan Chase has links to many of these early institutions, including the Western Reserve Bank, one of the first banks in Ohio and a predecessor of Bank One, which merged with JPMorgan Chase in 2004.

ExxonMobil

Exxon Mobil Corporation is an American oil and gas corporation and a descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company. The company was formed on November 31, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil.
It is also the largest publicly held corporation by market capitalization, at $501.17 billion on April 18, 2008. Exxon's reserves were 72 billion oil-equivalent barrels at the end of 2007 and are expected to last over 14 years.

Brief details

GE Capital offers an astonishing array of products and services aimed at enabling commercial businesses and consumers worldwide. The company prides helps build the healthcare, transportation, and technology infrastructure across the globe. General Electric's sales stand at $172.74 billion and profits at $22.21 billion in 2007.
History of research GE's research started in a barn in 1900 when General Electric Company completed eight years. The barn saw company's major breakthrough technologies. One of the earliest projects of the new lab was incandescent lighting. GE scientists have thousands of patents, and two Nobel prizes: Irving Langmuir won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1932 and Ivar Giaever won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973.

Before 1998, Bank of America organization was known as NationsBank. In 1998, NationsBank acquired San Francisco-based BankAmerica and renamed the corporation "Bank of America"

Oil giant Shell has over 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (Boe) resources under construction. Shell has been exploring and producing oil and gas for more than a century.

The exploration and production work is going on in nearly 40 countries and the company employs around 35,000 people. Royal Dutch Shell reported sales to the tune of $355.78 billion and profits stood at $31.33 billion in 2007.

HistoryThe Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies was created in February 1907 when the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom merged their operations.

After the merger, 60 percent of the new Group went to the Dutch arm and 40 percent to the British. In 1833, the company founder's father, Marcus Samuel, founded an import business to sell seashells to collectors in London.

When collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area in 1892, Samuel realized the potential of exporting oil from the region and commissioned the world's first purpose-built oil tanker, the Murex to foray into this market.

History

While it is the largest of the six oil giants with daily production of 4.18 million BOE (barrels of oil equivalent) in 2007, ExxonMobil is 14th in the world when ranked by held oil and gas reserves. Rex W. Tillerson is the chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil reported sales to the tune of $358.60 billion and profits stood at $40.61 billion in 2007.

HistoryExxon Mobil Corporation was formed in 1999 by the merger of two major oil companies, Exxon and Mobil. Both Exxon and Mobil were descendants of the John D. Rockefeller corporation, Standard Oil which was established in 1870.

In 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Standard Oil must be dissolved and split into 34 companies. Two of these companies were Jersey Standard (Standard Oil Company of New Jersey), which eventually became Exxon, and Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York), which eventually became Mobil.