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the fattest fifteen

1. General Electric
   
2. ExxonMobil Corporation
   
3. Royal Dutch/Shell Group
   
4. General Motors
   
5. Ford Motor Company
   
6. Toyota Motor Company
   
7. DaimlerChrysler AG
   
8. TotalFina SA
   
9. IBM
   
10. BP
    
11. Nestle
    
12. Volkswagen Group
    
13. Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation
    
14. Siemens AG
    
15. Wal-Mart Stores
    

Ranked by foreign assets, 1999, from UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2001.

tncs are rotten employers

Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations and only 49 are countries. While the sales of the top 200 are the equivalent of 27.5 percent of world economic activity, they employ on 0.78 percent of the world's workforce. Between 1983 and 1999, the profits of the top 200 firms grew 362.4%, while the number of people they employ grew by only 14.4 percent.

From “Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power” by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, December 2000.