{"id":163,"date":"2013-07-22T07:03:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T07:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-07-22T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:12:25","slug":"the-worlds-largest-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Largest Companies: Top TEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A way to value an organisation, is to examine the cash generated in a 12 month period. This then shows the annual revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this methodology, here are the top 10 corporations in the world based on annual revenue at the end of 2012:<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest companies based on\u00a0\u00a3 revenues.<\/p>\n<p>1\u00a0 Royal Dutch Shell <strong>\u00a3315 Billion<\/strong> [OIL] (<strong>UK<\/strong> &amp; Netherlands)<br \/>\n2\u00a0 Wal-Mart \u00a3307 Billion [RETAIL] (US)<br \/>\n3\u00a0 Exxon Mobil \u00a3294 Billion [OIL] (US)<br \/>\n4\u00a0 Sinopec \u00a3280 Billion [OIL] (China)<br \/>\n5\u00a0 China National Petroleum \u00a3267 Billion [OIL] (China)<br \/>\n6\u00a0 BP <strong>\u00a3254 Billion<\/strong> [OIL] (<strong>UK<\/strong>)<br \/>\n7\u00a0 State Grid \u00a3195 Billion [POWER] (China)<br \/>\n8\u00a0 Toyota Motor \u00a3173 Billion [CAR &amp; TRUCK] (Japan)<br \/>\n9\u00a0 Volkswagen \u00a3162 Billion [CAR &amp; TRUCK] (Germany)<br \/>\n10 Total \u00a3153 Billion [OIL] (France)<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to see how energy companies dominate the top 10, also note, that no banks are in the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A way to value an organisation, is to examine the cash generated in a 12 month period. This then shows the annual revenues. Based on this methodology, here are the top 10 corporations in the world based on annual revenue at the end of 2012: The world&#8217;s largest companies based on\u00a0\u00a3 revenues. 1\u00a0 Royal Dutch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}