U.S. magazine Forbes recently publishes the 2010 Global top 2000 companies, covering the world’s largest and most powerful listed enterprises. Usually these giants of global business rank very stably, but there are still capsizing possibilities in the financial crisis. This rank is formed by Forbes after a series of comprehensive reference to company size, sales, profits, assets, market value and other indicators. Among those, large companies in China, India and other emerging economic power countries get most improved.
The rank totally covers 62 countries, among which American and Japanese companies still occupy it. 113 ranking companies of Chinese mainland make most obvious progress. Ireland, Sweden and South African companies have improved a lot as well. Even there are some businesses of the Oman and Lebanon stand in that category. Among them, Japan Toyota Motor Corporation plunge from No. 3 of the previous year to 360 this year.
Analysis of data shows that despite the financial sector shocked by the economic crisis, bank trades still occupy a dominant position. Although oil and gas have an advantage in sales, profits and market value, it failed to become the vanguard of economic growth. Companies involving areas of insurance, pharmaceutical and biotechnology also rank in the profits list.
Bank trades have consistently occupied the dominant position among the top 2000 companies. But after the financial crisis broke out, the entire financial industry was thought to should have been impulse greatly. However in fact in 2009, they got a quite good achievement overall. In addition, each country adopted some policies to enhance their own performance which is also very helpful. During the top ten that the financial industry ranks rather forward reflects from another level, that the majority look to further increase on the future growth of the global economy or their predictions for the future is relatively good.