Published by Forbes magazine since 2003, the Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the world’s top 2000 public companies. Forbes ranks the companies according to four basic metrics: profit, sales, assets, and market value.
  • The world's 2000 biggest public companies account for $201 trillion in total assets, $42 trillion in revenues, $3 trillion in profits, and $54 trillion in market value, according to the 2020 list.
  • The world's largest company by market value in 2020 is Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian national oil company ($1.68 trillion), followed by Microsoft ($1.35 trillion), which have overtaken Apple ($1.2 trillion) after its multi-year lead.
  • China’s two biggest banks occupied the top two places again for all banks globally. ICBC tops the ranking for the fifth consecutive year. The Agricultural Bank of China moved to 5th place, knocked down by Berkshire Hathaway—a conglomerate owned by Warren Buffet—which moved into 3rd place, and by JPMorgan Chase, which now holds the 4th position.

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According to Millward Brown's latest BrandZ™ report, the combined value of the world's top-100 most valuable brands in 2014 increased by 12 percent to $2.9 trillion. The top 10 brands represented almost one third of the total for the top 100, led by the technology sector. Google Inc claimed the number one spot with a total brand value of $159 billion. Number two was Apple ($148 billion), followed by IBM ($108 billion) and Microsoft ($90 billion). Twitter and LinkedIn entered the Top 100 for the first time in 2014, ranked 71 and 78, respectively. Amazon moved its way into the 10th...

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Number of Starbucks Stores Globally, 1992-2021

(29 March 2021) Today Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 32,938 retail locations as of the first quarter of 2021, followed distantly by coffee shop chains such as Dunkin Donuts with about 10,000 restaurants, Tim Hortons with 4,300 outlets, and Costa Coffee with nearly 1,700 stores worldwide. Starbucks was founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, and incorporated on November 4, 1985, to become the publicly traded Starbucks Corporation.Based on the company's positive, sustained operating results, it is ranked among Forbes' Top-500 world's biggest public...

McDonald's vs Subway: Which Has the Bigger Restaurant Chain?

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