Planet Earth: A Corporate World

STATE of POWER2013 A Corporate World $4 We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court, 1916-1939 CORPORATE 470 2011 REVENUES TOP 25 GLOBAL COMPANIES BASED ON REVENUES A FOSSIL-FUELLED WORLD Change in ranking since 2010 Royal Dutch Wal-Mart Stores Exxon Mobil Sinopec China Petroleum British Petroleum Shell 470 US$ Billion 447 433 391 376 11 Petro China Conoco Toyota Motor Volkswagen Group Chevron Phillips 310 236 231 229 222 * 12 Total Glencore International General Motors General Electric E.ON 216 180 157 150 147 个 3 Berkshire Hathaway ENI Samsung Electronics Petrobras ING Group 146 144 143 142 139 Daimler Fannie Mae Ford Motor Allianz AXA Group 138 138 136 134 133 AUTO RETAIL и OIL FINANCE OTHER Oil and gas make up of the 10 largest companies in the world. O Forbes as of April 2012 TOP TWENTY-FIVE LIST OF COMPANIES BASED ON OWNERSHIP BIG FINANCE OWNS THE LARGEST TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES Barclays plc Franklin Resources Inc Capital Group Companies Credit Suisse Group FMR Corporation Less than Walton Enterprises LLC Bank of New York Mellon AXA Natixis State Street Corporation mostly banks, Goldman Sachs Group control the shares JP Morgan Chase & Co T Rowe Price Group o 40% Legal & General Group plc Legg Mason Vanguard Group Morgan Stanley of global UBS AG businesses. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Merrill Lynch & Co Northern Trust Wellington Mgmt Co Société Générale Deutsche Bank AG Bank of America O List of 25 most connected companies is from Vitali, Glattfelder, and Battiston, The Network of Global Corporate Control. LOCATION OF TOP 200 CORPORATIONS (2011) 15 GERMANY NETHERLANDS 5 UNITED KINGDOM 11 RUSSIA JAPAN 26 SOUTH KOREA FRANCE 16 USA 60 SWITZERLAND SPAIN 4 6 ITALY CHINA 12 2 INDIA BRAZIL 2 HONG-KONG 1 MEXICO (CHINA) 1 AUSTRIA 1 NORWAY 1 SAUDI ARABIA 1 BERMUDA 1 CANADA AUSTRALIA 5 1 SINGAPORE 1 DENMARK 1 SWEDEN 1 LUXEMBOURG 1 TAIWAN 1 FINLAND 1 THAILAND O Based on Forbes as of April 2012 CORPORATIONS ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN NATIONS TOP 100 ECONOMIES BY NATION GDP AND COMPANY REVENUES Top 100 Economies in 2011 40 60 of the top 100 economies are 40 corporations Companies Nations 35 Thailand 36 United Arab Emirates 37 Denmark 30 Colombia 39 Venezuela 40 PetroChina 41 Greece e E.ON 1 USA 2 China Japan 4 Germany 5 France 6 Brazil 70 General Motors 71 General Electric 12 Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil 3 Berkshire Hathaway 74 ENI 7 United Kingdom e Italy 9 Russia 10 India 75 Samsung Electronics 16 Hungary 7 ING Group 70 Fannie Mae 42 Malaysia 43 Finland 11 Canada 12 Australia 13 Spain 44 Singapore 45 Chile 46 Nigeria 79 Daimler 80 Ford Motor e1 Allianz 2 AXA Group 43 Apple 84 AT&T es Valero Energy 86 Hewlett-Packard 47 Israel 14 Mexico 15 South Korea 48 Hong Kong 49 Portugal so Egypt 5i Chevron 52 ConocoPhillips 53 Toyota Motor 54 Philippines 55 Volkswagen Group 56 Ireland 57 Total 5e Czech Republic s9 Pakistan 60 Algeria 16 Indonesia 17 Netherlands 10 Turkey 87 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 19 Switzerland 20 Saudi Arabia 21 Sweden 22 Poland 23 Belgium 24 Norway 25 Iran Vietnam 9 McKesson 90 BNP Paribas 91 GDF Suez 2 Gazprom a JX Holdings 94 Bank of America 26 Royal Dutch Shell 27 Taiwan 61 Romania 28 Wal-Mart Stores 62 Kazakhstan 95 Irag 29 Argentina 30 ExxonMobil 31 Austria % Bangladesh 97 Carrefour se Hitachi 9 Statoil 63 Glencore International 64 Peru 65 Qatar 2 South Africa 33 Sinopec-China Petroleum 66 Ukraine 67 Kuwait 68 New Zealand 100 Lukoil 34 BP V National GDPs are from International Monetary Fund; Corporate revenues are from Forbes. All references can be found on www.tni.org/stateofpower2013 Resources: www.tni.org www.oilwatch.org europeansforfinancialreform.org www.corporateeurope.org www.attac.org