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According to the Fortune, this year, Global 500 companies employ 69.9 million people. Check out the list to know more

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Last Updated : Aug 14 2020 | 1:25 PM IST
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Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries jumped 10 places to break into the world's top 100 companies on the Fortune Global 500 list. The oil-to-telecom conglomerate is ranked 96th in the 2020 ranking released by Fortune on Tuesday. This is the highest any Indian company has been ranked on the Fortune Global 500 list.

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According to the report, Tesla may have recently overtaken Toyota Motor Corporation as the world's most valuable automaker, but the Camry- and Prius-maker is still more than 10 times the size of Elon Musk's company by sales ($275 billion vs. $25 billion last year).

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Amazon’s 21 per cent revenue growth in 2019, to $281 billion, is the reason the Seattle company has moved up four spots on the Global 500.

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The British energy giant fell one spot on this year’s list, as revenue dropped 7 per cent to $283 billion, and profits dropped 57 per cent to $4 billion, thanks to weak oil prices.

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Volkswagen, the highest-ranking automaker in this year's list, has had a turbulent year.

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In December 2019, Saudi Aramco made its much-anticipated debut on the Saudi Stock Exchange, becoming the world’s largest initial public offering on record. Within days after its listing, the company reached a market capitalization of $2 trillion.

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Amid weaker oil and gas prices, Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas multinational, fell two spots in the Global 500 rankings this year as revenue took an 11 per cent hit and profits fell by more than a third to $15.8 billion.

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Even before the pandemic began, PetroChina announced a 58% drop in profits in the third quarter of last year, caused by overcapacity in China’s market for natural gas.

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According to the report, China’s state-owned power company, as sales dipped just under 1 per cent in 2019. Beijing appointed Mao Weiming as State Grid's chairman at the start of 2020, marking the first time the massive utility has been led by a chairman with no prior experience in the industry.

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Sinopec bet big on expanding production capacity last year just as oil prices grew volatile, and 2020 has been even bumpier.

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Walmart has indisputably emerged as a strong No. 2 to Amazon in U.S. e-commerce, with sales up 37 per cent last year. Walmart is benefiting from focusing on select overseas markets, such as India and China, rather than competing everywhere.

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First Published: Aug 14 2020 | 12:08 PM IST

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