I saw conflicting claims as the boys measured. I took FORTUNE MAGAZINE as source because these kinds of ratings are their business. But INEOS does see it differently. Must have something to do with how you figure earnings. I see INEOS is in BIG trouble financially. But that leads to another story.
Rank Company Global 500 rank Revenues($ millions) City 1 BP 4 367,053 London 2 HSBC Holdings 21 142,049 London 3 Royal Bank of Scotland 38 113,087 Edinburgh 4 Tesco 56 94,300 Cheshunt 5 Barclays 83 75,136 London 6 Vodafone 94 69,138 Newbury 7 HBOS 107 62,400 Edinburgh 8 Rio Tinto Group 134 54,264 London 9 GlaxoSmithKline 168 44,654 Brentford 10 Scottish & Southern Energy 178 42,855 Perth 11 Centrica 193 39,140 Windsor 12 BT 210 36,626 London 13 Aviva 221 35,506 London 14 Wolseley 248 33,084 Theale 15 Lloyds Banking Group 256 32,196 London 16 J. Sainsbury 261 31,876 London 17 AstraZeneca 268 31,601 London 18 BAE Systems 279 30,570 London 19 National Grid 333 26,606 London 20 Anglo American 336 26,311 London 21 William Morrison Supermarkets 344 25,909 Bradford 22 Standard Chartered Group 389 23,438 London 23 BG Group 390 23,396 Reading 24 Compass Group 407 22,522 Chertsey 25 British American Tobacco 416 22,228 London 26 Imperial Tobacco Group 461 19,915 Bristol
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