Mejores empresas

Rank |Company |Country |Industry |Sales ($bil) |Profits ($bil) |Assets ($bil) |Market Value ($bil) | |
|1 |General Electric |United States |Conglomerates |182.52 |17.41 |797.77 |89.87 |
|2 |Royal Dutch Shell |Netherlands |Oil & Gas Operations |458.36 |26.28 |278.44|135.10 |
|3 |Toyota Motor |Japan |Consumer Durables |263.42 |17.21 |324.98 |102.35 |
|4 |ExxonMobil |United States |Oil & Gas Operations |425.70 |45.22 |228.05 |335.54 |
|5 |BP |United Kingdom|Oil & Gas Operations |361.14 |21.16 |228.24 |119.70 |
|6 |HSBC Holdings |United Kingdom |Banking |142.05 |5.73 |2,520.45 |85.04 |
|7 |AT&T |United States |Telecommunications Services |124.03 |12.87 |265.25|140.08 |
|8 |Wal-Mart Stores |United States |Retailing |405.61 |13.40 |163.43 |193.15 |
|9 |Banco Santander |Spain |Banking |96.23 |13.25 |1,318.86 |49.75 |
|10 |Chevron |United States |Oil& Gas Operations |255.11 |23.93 |161.17 |121.70 |
|11 |Total |France |Oil & Gas Operations |223.15 |14.74 |164.66 |112.90 |
|12 |ICBC |China |Banking |53.60 |11.16 |1,188.08|170.83 |
|13 |Gazprom |Russia |Oil & Gas Operations |97.29 |26.78 |276.81 |74.55 |
|14 |PetroChina |China |Oil & Gas Operations |114.32 |19.94 |145.14 |270.56 |
|15 |Volkswagen Group |Germany |ConsumerDurables |158.40 |6.52 |244.05 |75.18 |
|16 |JPMorgan Chase |United States |Banking |101.49 |3.70 |2,175.05 |85.87 |
|17 |GDF Suez |France |Utilities |115.59 |9.05 |232.71 |70.46|
|18 |ENI |Italy |Oil & Gas Operations |158.32 |12.91 |139.80 |80.68 |
|19 |Berkshire Hathaway |United States |Diversified Financials |107.79 |4.99 |267.40 |122.11 |
|20 |Vodafone |United Kingdom|Telecommunications Services |70.39 |13.30 |252.08 |93.66 |

1 ) GENERAL ELECTRIC:

Historia [editar]

La empresa fue fundada por el famoso inventor estadounidense Thomas Alva Edison en la ciudad de Menlo Park, Nueva Jersey en 1890. El nombre original de la empresa fue Edison General Electric Company.
En 1887 Elihu Thomson y Edwin J. Houston habían constituido laempresa Thomson-Houston Electric Company. Esta empresa, paulatinamente se fue fusionando con varias compañías del sector eléctrico que eran su competencia. Las fusiones y las patentes posicionaron en primer puesto a la compañía.
En 1892 la empresa de Edison y la Thomson-Houston Electric Company se fusionaron para conformar la General Electric Company con sede en Schenectady, New York.
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