State of Corporate pOWER 2012

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TOP 25 GLOBAL COMPANIES BASED ON REVENUES

A FOSSIL-FUELLED WORLD

Roy Dutc al She h ll

OIL

Oil and gas make up eight of the top ten largest global corporations.

A Corporate World
V Gr olksw ou a p gen
15000

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

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Capital Group Companies

FMR Corporation
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BP

State Street Corporation

JP Morgan Chase & Co
Legal & General Group plc

369

TOP 25 CORPORATIONS BASED ON OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL

WORLD CONTROLLED BY BIG FINANCE
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$
422

3 34
3 20

Vanguard Group
UBS AG
Merrill Lynch & Co

AUTO
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7 29

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10000

168
273
136

Wellington Mgmt Co

Deutsche Bank AG
240

Daimler

Franklin Resources Inc

Credit Suisse Group

Chevron

131

Ford Motor

FRANCE 35

USA 133

5000

JAPAN 68

CHINA 61

129

BRITAIN 30

GERMANY 34

190

Walton Enterprises LLC

Bank of New York Mellon

Total

188

Conoco Phillips

AXA Group

162

NUMBER OF CORPORATIONS IN TOP 500 IN 2010

149

176

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3000

143

131

1%

90
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2000

4 13
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50 40 30 20 10

LOCATION OF TOP 200 CORPORATIONS

60 USA
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2010 GDP OR REVENUES

US$BILLIONS

France Germany 12.5 UK 4 Brazil

CORPORATIONS MORE POWERFUL THAN NATIONS

41 OF THE WORLDS 100 LARGEST ECONOMIES ARE CORPORATIONS
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Sources: Forbes, April 2011; Fortune 500; IPS 2000; List of 25 most connected companies is from Vitali, Glattfelder, and Battiston, The Network of Global Corporate Control; National GDPs for year 2010 are from IMF; Corporate revenues are from Fortune.

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