| Google -
More than just an online search company, Google is at its core, a comprehensive internet advertising business. In 2007, annual revenue had increased 38-fold from 2002, from US$... read more | Exxon Mobil - ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), an energy company with a product portfolio ranging from crude oil to industrial lubricants. The company has been valued at over $500 billion at its... read more | Starbucks -
Starbucks Corporation has stores in 37 countries, and it has built one of the world's most powerful and recognizable brands upon high-quality coffee and the unique "Starbucks... read more | | Microsoft - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial software, dominating desktop operating systems and popular office application software.... read more | | General Electric Company -
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is a multinational conglomerate specializing in technology and services. The scale of GE's operations is enormous; in 2006, GE... read more | Yahoo! - Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) is an American global Internet services company that operates the Yahoo! Internet portal. It provides a range of products and content, from email and... read more | Amazon.com -
If Amazon’s 66 million active customers all lived in the same country, it would be the world’s 19th most populous country, larger than every European country except... read more | Nike - Nike sells athletic footwear and apparel; its revenue in FY 2008 totaled over $18.6 billion, easily the most in its market.[1] Nike has a global reach, with 34% of its total 2008... read more | McDonald's - McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) runs the world’s largest and most recognizable fast food restaurant chain. It is known for traditional offerings such as hamburgers,... read more | | Coca-Cola Company -
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world’s largest manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. Based in Atlanta,... read more | Pfizer - Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. It owns the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, which brings in a quarter of its revenue and is the best... read more | EBay - eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) most prominent business is ebay.com, an internet auction site that connects individual buyers and sellers worldwide. Its massive popularity--82 million active... read more | Abbott Laboratories -
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is the largest company in the nutritional products market and the second largest company in the worldwide market for diagnostic... read more | | | Target - Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) is one of the top ten largest retailers in the U.S. by sales, and the second largest in the general retail industry. Target generated $63.3 billion of... read more | | View all industries |
Monsanto Company - Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is the largest producer of genetically modified seeds for crops such as corn, soybeans, and cotton. Monsanto beat competitor DuPont (DD) to... read more | DuPont -
DuPont (NYSE:DD) is a chemical and technology conglomerate whose business spans the manufacturing of unique materials such as Kevlar and Teflon and the production of... read more | Archer-Daniels-Midland -
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), based out of Decatur, Illinois, is one of the largest commercial "agribusinesses" in the world. It processes cereal... read more | Caterpillar -
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) manufactures heavy-duty vehicles and technologies designed for constructing buildings and mining the earth. Worldwide, Caterpillar is the leading... read more | Deere & Company -
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is the world's leading manufacturer of agricultural and forestry equipment. In FY 2007 Deere generated over $24.1 billion in revenue with... read more | Bunge -
Bunge (NYSE:BG) is an agribusiness and food company that is the largest producer of soybean oil and which has an immense stake in the South American fertilizer market. It also deals... read more | | ConAgra Foods -
ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG) is a major manufacturer, packager, and distributor of consumer and commercial food products. It owns and operates brands such as Healthy Choice,... read more | Mosaic Company - Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) is the world’s largest producer of phosphate and second largest producer of potash, two crop nutrients which are primary ingredients in producing... read more | Weyerhaeuser Company -
Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) is one of the largest integrated forest product companies, with annual revenues of nearly US$ 22 billion. As an oft-cited example of... read more | Agrium - Agrium Inc. (NYSE:AGU) makes fertilizer. Biofuel production has increased the demand for grain crops and, as a consequence, Agrium's fertilizer products. In Q1 of fiscal year 2008,... read more | AGCO - AGCO (NYSE: AG) is the 3rd largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment world-wide. The company makes products such as tractors and combines, and distributes its products through... read more | | | Syngenta AG - Syngenta AG is a global provider of agribusiness products and solutions. The company's major products include herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, and field crop,... read more | | Hitachi - Hitachi, Ltd. (HIT), a Tokyo-based global conglomerate, has a highly diversified product mix ranging from consumer electronic products to power plants and electronic devices.... read more | Verenium Corporation - Verenium Corporation (NASDAQ: VRNM) is a biotechnology firm that produces enzymes used in industrial processes and agricultural feedstocks. The company also does U.S.... read more | | Manitowoc Company - Manitowoc (NYSE: MTW) manufacturers cranes, food service equipment, and shipping vessels. Crane production and service accounted for 81% of MTW's $4 billion in 2007... read more | | View all in this category |
| General Electric Company -
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is a multinational conglomerate specializing in technology and services. The scale of GE's operations is enormous; in 2006, GE... read more | Nike - Nike sells athletic footwear and apparel; its revenue in FY 2008 totaled over $18.6 billion, easily the most in its market.[1] Nike has a global reach, with 34% of its total 2008... read more | Abbott Laboratories -
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is the largest company in the nutritional products market and the second largest company in the worldwide market for diagnostic... read more | | Procter & Gamble Company - Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) is the world's leading company in the household and personal products (HPP) industry. P&G's product line boasts over 23 brands... read more | | Anheuser-Busch Companies -
Anheuser-Busch generated gross sales of $19 billion and produced over 125 million barrels of beer in 2007[1], ranking it as the largest alcohol brewer in the... read more | | Pepsico - PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE:PEP) is a leading global manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of food and beverages. PepsiCo is a conglomerate comprised of four divisions: PepsiCo Beverages... read more | Evergreen Solar - Evergreen Solar is a growing producer of silicon ribbon solar wafers, cells, modules, silicon wafers, and systems. Growth in solar panel efficiency over the last few... read more | Dell -
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is a leading global vendor of personal computers. In addition to both desktop and notebook PCs, Dell sells peripherals, software, accessories, corporate servers... read more | Gap - The Gap, Inc. is a clothing retailer based in the United States, operating 3,200 retail stores under three distinct apparel brand names – "Gap", "Old Navy", and "Banana Republic."... read more | Hewlett-Packard Company - Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is a diversified technology company that has reached several key milestones in recent years. The company became the leading information... read more | Walt Disney Company - The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is a leading media and entertainment conglomerate, earning over $43 billion in revenue in 2007. The company is divided into four... read more | Kraft Foods -
Headquartered in Northfield, Illinois, Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second-largest in the world... read more | Sony - Sony Corporation (TYO: 6758; NYSE: SNE) is an international corporation with major businesses in electronics, video games, movies, and finance. The Japan-based company is one of the... read more | Sprint Nextel - Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) is the third-largest wireless carrier in the United States by number of subscribers, serving 51.9 million wireless customers as of Q208.[1] Sprint’s... read more | Harley-Davidson -
With half the US market and a third of the global one, Harley-Davidson is the largest manufacturer of heavyweight motorcycles in the world, marketing products under the... read more | Nintendo - Nintendo (OTC:NTDOY) started 118 years ago as a Japanese company selling playing cards. In recent months, the company whose name literally translates to "the company that leaves... read more | | View all in this category |
Exxon Mobil - ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), an energy company with a product portfolio ranging from crude oil to industrial lubricants. The company has been valued at over $500 billion at its... read more | General Electric Company -
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is a multinational conglomerate specializing in technology and services. The scale of GE's operations is enormous; in 2006, GE... read more | | First Solar -
First Solar makes cadmium telluride (CdTe) glass substrate based thin film photovoltaic (PV) panels, which are used to convert sunlight into electricity. Unlike other... read more | BP - BP is one of the six oil majors and, with 2007 revenues of $284 billion, the third-largest petroleum company in the world.[1] The production of crude oil and natural gas makes up 83% of... read more | | Evergreen Solar - Evergreen Solar is a growing producer of silicon ribbon solar wafers, cells, modules, silicon wafers, and systems. Growth in solar panel efficiency over the last few... read more | Royal Dutch Shell - Royal Dutch Shell Company (LON: RDSA) (Shell) is one of the largest private sector energy companies in the world. The company is engaged in the... read more | | ChevronTexaco -
The Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is the second largest energy company in the U.S., and is an oil and gas company engaged in exploration, production, refining, marketing,... read more | Transocean - Transocean's merger with GlobalSantaFe added 59 rigs to this oil drilling company's arsenal[1]; as of May 2008, the company owned 138 mobile offshore drilling platforms,... read more | | Valero Energy -
Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is one of the largest petroleum refiners in North America. The companies operating in the petroleum refining industry process crude oil... read more | Halliburton Company -
Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) is a top three provider of support services for early stage energy production with 2007 total revenues of $15.3B and operating income of... read more | | | Massey Energy Company -
Massey Energy Company (MEE) is America's 4th largest coal producer by revenue. Operating in the Central Appalachia region, which includes West Virginia, Virginia,... read more | Exelon -
Exelon Corp. is one of the nation's largest electrical utilities, with over 5.4 million retail customers and over 33,000 Megawatts in energy capacity (1 MW can power approximately... read more | Entergy -
Entergy is one of the nation’s largest utility operators, with annual revenues around $11 billion and 2007 operating income at $1.167 billion[1]. Entergy is also the nation's... read more | Toshiba - Toshiba Corporation (OTC: TOSBF) is a leading manufacturer of electronics, digital products, and social appliances. With a revenue of $56 billion during the year 2006, the... read more | | View all in this category |
| | EBay - eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) most prominent business is ebay.com, an internet auction site that connects individual buyers and sellers worldwide. Its massive popularity--82 million active... read more | J P Morgan Chase -
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. Its main services include the provision of credit cards and loans... read more | Merrill Lynch -
Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) is distinct among its peers in that it is both a premier investment bank and one the largest wealth management firms in the world, with over $1.6... read more | Bank of America - Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) is one of the world's leading bank holding companies, with 2007 net interest and non-interest incomes of $34.4 billion and $31.8... read more | Lehman Brothers - Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH) was, until its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on September, 15, 2008, the fourth-largest securities firm in the U.S. and a leading provider of... read more | Sears Holdings -
Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) is the fourth largest retail company in the United States, generating over $50 billion in sales in 2007 from 3,791 stores throughout the... read more | Fannie Mae -
The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the second largest corporation in the United States in terms of assets, buys mortgages from banks and financial... read more | NYSE Euronext - NYSE Euronext is an American corporation that owns and manages several stock exchanges, including the NYSE, Euronext (Europe), and NYSE Arca (formerly Archipelago). Its April... read more | Sony - Sony Corporation (TYO: 6758; NYSE: SNE) is an international corporation with major businesses in electronics, video games, movies, and finance. The Japan-based company is one of the... read more | | Bear Stearns Companies -
The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. (NYSE:BSC) is a leading investment bank and provider of broker-dealer trading services. Through its three principal Capital... read more | | Washington Mutual -
Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) was a leading U.S. commercial bank ($14.2 billion in net revenue in 2007) providing retail banking, credit card services, commercial... read more | Wells Fargo -
Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) is the fifth-largest of the diversified financial services firms in the United States in term of assets. In 1888, Wells Fargo became the first... read more | Wachovia -
The Wachovia Corporation (NYSE: WB) was, prior to the September 2008 acquisition of its banking operations by Citigroup (C), one of the world's largest full-service financial... read more | | | Allstate -
The Allstate Company (ALL) provides a range of insurance products to clients, including auto, homeowner and life insurance. In order to maintain margins in increasingly... read more | | View all in this category |
Starbucks -
Starbucks Corporation has stores in 37 countries, and it has built one of the world's most powerful and recognizable brands upon high-quality coffee and the unique "Starbucks... read more | | McDonald's - McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) runs the world’s largest and most recognizable fast food restaurant chain. It is known for traditional offerings such as hamburgers,... read more | Coca-Cola Company -
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world’s largest manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. Based in Atlanta,... read more | Procter & Gamble Company - Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) is the world's leading company in the household and personal products (HPP) industry. P&G's product line boasts over 23 brands... read more | Anheuser-Busch Companies -
Anheuser-Busch generated gross sales of $19 billion and produced over 125 million barrels of beer in 2007[1], ranking it as the largest alcohol brewer in the... read more | Pepsico - PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE:PEP) is a leading global manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of food and beverages. PepsiCo is a conglomerate comprised of four divisions: PepsiCo Beverages... read more | Kraft Foods -
Headquartered in Northfield, Illinois, Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second-largest in the world... read more | Yum! Brands - Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) is the world's largest fast food company with 35,000 restaurants in over 100 countries. Yum restaurants include KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long... read more | General Mills -
With over $12B in sales[1], General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is one of the largest packaged food producers in the world. The firm owns some of the most recognizable brands in the... read more | H.J. Heinz Company -
H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ) makes processed food products like condiments, sauces, and frozen foods. The company is best known for its namesake brand, Heinz ketchup,... read more | Molson Coors Brewing Company -
Formed by the merger of the Coors Brewing Company and the Molson Company in 2005, the Molson Coors Brewing Company is the world’s fifth largest brewer by... read more | Hershey Foods -
Hershey's is North America's largest chocolate producer and confectioner. The company holds about a 40% market share in the United States chocolate market behind brands that... read more | Kellogg Company -
With 2007 sales of nearly $12 billion, Kellogg is the world’s leading producer of cereal and one of the largest producers of convenience foods[1]. With sales in over 180... read more | | Whole Foods Market - Whole Foods Market Inc.(NASDAQ: WFMI) is the world’s leading retailer of natural and organic foods. Sales of Natural and organic foods are growing at 20% annually,... read more | Coca-Cola Enterprises - Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE) is the world’s largest bottler of non-alcoholic beverages by volume. CCE produces, sells, and markets beverages using... read more | Campbell Soup Company -
Since its founding over 125 years ago, Campbell's Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) has grown to be the largest producer of soup in the world. It has a 60% market share in... read more | Burger King Holdings - Burger King is the second largest fast food hamburger restaurant chain in the U.S. with more than 11,000 company-operated and franchised restaurants in 69 different... read more | Pepsi Bottling Group - The Pepsi Bottling Group (NYSE:PBG) is the largest manufacturer, seller, and distributor of Pepsi-Cola beverages in the world. Though it is technically an independent... read more | | View all in this category |
Wynn Resorts -
Wynn Resorts Ltd (NASDAQ: WYNN) develops, owns, and operates destination casino resorts. Wynn Resorts currently has two destination casinos at the Wynn Las Vegas and the... read more | | Marriott International -
Marriott International Inc. (NYSE:MAR) is one of the leading worldwide operators and franchiser of hotels and related lodging facilities.
Marriott pioneered the... read more | Loews - This article discusses the holding company Loews. For the home improvement company, see Lowe's Companies (LOW).
Loews Corporation (NYSE: L) is a holding company with subsidiaries in... read more | Las Vegas Sands -
Las Vegas Sands(NYSE:LVS) owns and operates casinos in Las Vegas and Macau. The company generates over 70% of its revenue from its casinos, with dining, conventions,... read more | | Boyd Gaming -
Boyd Gaming (NYSE: BYD) owns and operates 16 casinos in Nevada, Mississippi, Illinois, Louisiana, Indiana and Florida. They are also a 50% partner in The Borgata Hotel Casino... read more | Wyndham Worldwide -
Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (WYN.NYSE) is one of the leading providers of hospitality products and services in the world. Wyndham's is the world's largest hotel... read more | |
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