Today Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 24,395 retail locations as of the first quarter of 2016, followed distantly by such coffee shop chains 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 companies. As of 2015, Starbucks' profit was $2.5 billion and it had a market...
The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the world’s top 2000 public companies published by Forbes magazine since 2003. The companies are ranked according to four basic metrics: profit, sales, assets and market value - and are broken down by industries, including 28 companies from Iron and Steel Industry.In total, the world's 28 biggest public companies from Iron and Steel industry account for $1.62 trillion in assets, $513 billion in revenues, and $300 billion in market value, according to the 2016 list. The world's largest steel company by market value is Citic Pacific, Hong Cong based company.
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 spot, the first retailer to achieve a top-10 ranking. North...
Key financial indicators data of listed companies that belong to America's Fortune 500 list. It covers both Quarterly & Annual data. In total, Fortune 500 companies represent two-thirds of the U.S. GDP with $12 trillion in revenues, $840 billion in profits, $17 trillion in market value, and employ 27.9 million people worldwide. Companies are ranked by total revenues for their respective fiscal years. Included in the survey are companies that are incorporated in the U.S. and operate in the U.S. and file financial statements with a government agency. This includes private companies and cooperatives that file a 10-K or a comparable financial...