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What company is the richest in the world?

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What is the biggest/richest company in the world?

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Who donated $36M to microsoft Robert? Just wanna know.

Schaufel

According to the Fortune 500 list, the top ten are, in order:

1 Walmart
2 Exxon Mobile
3 General Motors
4 Chevron
5 ConocoPhillips
6 General Electric
7 Ford Motor Company
8 Citigroup
9 Bank of America
10 American Intl. Group

However, if you are looking for world companies, and not just American companies, here is the top ten: [This lists in order: Position, Company name, Revenue (US$ Billions), Year to, Employees, What exchange/country it is traded in, CEO, compensation]

1. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. $351.1 2006 1,500,000 United States (NYSE: WMT) H. Lee Scott, Jr., $12.44M
2. ExxonMobil Corp. $347.2 2006 88,300 United States (NYSE: XOM) Rex W. Tillerson, $4.12M
3. Royal Dutch Shell plc $318.8 2006 112,000 UK, Netherlands, Jeroen van der Veer, â‚¬ 7.509.244
4. BP $253.6 2005 103,700 UK,(LSE: BP), (NYSE: BP) John Browne, $4.73M
5. Chevron Corp. $198.2 2005 61,533 United States (NYSE: CVX) David O'Reilly, $7.82M
6. DaimlerChrysler AG $193.0 2005 362,063 Germany (FWB: DCX), United States (NYSE: DCX), Singapore, Canada, Argentina, Netherlands, France, Austria, Switzerland, UK Dieter Zetsche
7. General Motors Corp. $192.6 2005 323,000 United States, 32 other countries (list omitted) (NYSE: GM) G. Richard Wagoner, Jr., $8.51M
8. ConocoPhillips $183.3 2005 39,000 United States (NYSE: COP) James Mulva, $6.88M
9. Toyota Motor Corp. $179.0 2006 285,977 Japan, United States WORLDWIDE(NYSE: TM) Fujio Cho
10. Total S.A. $178.3 2005 111,401 France, United States (NYSE: TOT) Thierry Desmarest, $3.79M

[note: this list is based upon revenue, not market capitalization, or total assets, which would produce a wholy different list!]

By the way, Microsoft is #62, Coca-Cola is #96, Haliburton is #104

ann t

Microsoft

robert a

its obviously microsoft when 36billion dollars was donated to them last year and even b4 dat they were still the richest.

Monte T

I thought it might be microsoft but I was wrong.

Scotty Doesnt Know

ExxonMobil. This oil company posted the largest quarterly profits ever for any company in history. Twice. In the past twelve months.

Sam L

base on revenue Exxon around 360 billion (2006 est)
base on assets citigroup around 1.5 trillion (2006 est)

Mike

Oh my goodness... so many people who answer without knowing what they're talking about. The answer is Wal-Mart. They are #1 on the 2007 Fortune 500 list. ExxonMobil was #1 in 2006, but no more.

And I believe it was Larry Ellis of Oracle that donated billions to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

P.S. This shows how ridiculous Yahoo Answers is: you thumb the correct answer down, even when it comes with a source. You guys are something else.

And Randy: "Micro slop"? Oh my goodness, are you 12? Not to mention, Microsoft isn't the answer to any of the questions presented.

Gertrude McFuzz

I know this always comes somewhere one way or another but...it depends.
Some companies are rich in candy items, some are rich in a certain type of market, some are big in a certain part of the world....
Just think...Apple is a HUGE company, but its computer buisness? Weeny...compared to Microsoft, but its media devices buisness? Weeny...compared to Apple.

Clive Roland

interesting question, never really thought about it before... my guess is some Petroleum company ?

Sanjiv

And the winners areâ€¦
See the full list of the world's largest corporations, including detailed company profiles and contact information. (more)
1. Exxon Mobil 6. Chevron
2. Wal-Mart Stores 7. DaimlerChrysler
3. Royal Dutch Shell 8. Toyota Motor
4. BP 9. Ford Motor
5. General Motors 10. ConocoPhillips

(updated 2006)

mariagirl4uok

obviously it is Microsoft look at Bill Gates

samhillesq

Haliburton.

The Thinker

#1 Catholic church is the richest legally registered
" corporation "
#2 The walden family ( 4 of them ) who own the walmart corporation who claim modest personal income taxes on a mere106+ billion per year and growing, yet still scam the welfare system to insure their employees with out having to contribute any corp profits
#3 Bill Gates and micro Slop corp..

Josh

Microsoft

erky

It's straight 25 years alreadly
it's still microsoft

wonder if there is a new OS "Singaosoft"
then it will be more good

wicked_grl

the biggest and the richest company and brand as well is coca-cola...i bet u didn't think that could be possible..

Microsoft. Or if you includ websites I think Google, because they have you tube as well!

chocolateluver_1002

microsoft is biggest by far.. but then again Disney will soon rule the world

Ya-sai

coca cola

shayne

microsoft! =)

calico

Microsoft

NOXIN

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Here comes Mr. Bill.

"I ghought about entering politics.

But I could not find the Enter key on the switchboard?

Hit 1

Walden? Where did you learn to spell, Colgate?

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