Friday, 16 October 2009

Biggest employer in the world.

I've just been looking at the results of the 2009 Fortune Global 500 and it's quite sobering. The biggest employer in the world is Wal-Mart with 2.1 million employees! Can you imagine handing out the payslips?

Slightly more sobering - if you sort the results by the biggest losses our very own Royal Bank of Scotland comes in second with a stonking loss of $43.1billion. The 'winner' is Fannie mae with a massive $58.7 billion loss.

Top 6 most profitable companies in the world? All oil or gas providers.

Have a look at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2009/index.html for more big numbers.

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