Guide: "Forbes" magazine has been selected for the world's best business leaderboard in 2004, it is the best 400 largest companies in the revenue and company market in the past year, although this 400 large companies account for 1% of the total number of global large companies, but they are open-listed companies that can attract investors interest. These companies are extremely remarkable whether it is scale or sustainable development. In the "Forbes" selected 2004 global best business list, the top three were monopolized by energy giants, they were the Dadal Oil Group in British Petroleum, Exxon Mobil and France. Rank 4th to Tenths are: Germany Security, United States Confield Oil, France, Siemens, USA, US International Group, Switzerland Nestle, US Maxison Medical Company. In the top ten in the top of the list, energy listed companies occupy four seats. The insurance industry occupies two seats, and the home appliance chain will take a seat. The electronic defense industry takes a seat, and the food and beverage industry takes a seat. The medical industry takes a seat. In the country, in the top ten large enterprises, the United States occupied four seats, and the British occupied a seat, France occupied two seats, and Germany occupied two seats, Switzerland occupied one. The big business list is based on five selection indicators, each company's score on these five indicators determines their name. These five indicators are: the sales growth rate, net profit growth rate and capital return rate in the past five years, and analysts expect their income per share in this fiscal year and the trend of nearly 52 weeks. Since this selection is extremely harsh, a considerable number of famous large companies have not been selected, including Qualcomm, Vodafone, Wal-Mart, and Microsoft, which have been selected for five consecutive times. In the "Forbes" in 2004, there are 142 companies from the United States, 32 companies in the United Kingdom, 30 Japan, 16 Canada, 19 France, 20 African and Latin America. 20, 41 in Asia, 73 European regions outside the European-deferred region, 7 remaining regions. The following is the top 25 companies:
Rank Name Industry Country (100 million US dollars) Sales (100 million US dollars) 1 British oil energy British 194525242 Exxon Mobil Energy United States 294423713 Total Energy France 126313164 Andral Insurance German 3381235 Confini Insurance United States 51110476 Carrefour Wholesale Retail France 329 8877 Siemens Electronics Defense Germany 587866 US International Group Insurance United States 18378139 Nestlé Food Beverage Swiss 97671010 Maxison Medical US 90 69511 Peugeot Group Transportation Equipment France 141 68412ENI Energy Italy 822 68213 Home Warehouse Wholesale Retail USA 802 6481 Berkshire Harda Insurance United States 1337 64015 Specialty purchase Wholesale Retail UK 363 57516 Samsung Electronics National Defense South Korea 654 54417RWE Utilities Germany 273 53818 United Lili Food Beverage Netherlands 575 53719ubs Bank Switzerland 710 52020 Germany Postal Shipping Germany 211 50321 China Petrochemical Energy China 311 49722Repsol YPF Energy Spain 247 45423 Japan Tobacco Consumer Products Japan 155 44324 Scotland Bank Bank Britain 841 43025 Dell Electronics Defense United States 878 414
