Talk:Fortune Global 500/Archives/2013

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Thatotherperson in topic Merger proposal

Edit Request/Original Research

Chicago is conspicuously absent from this list. The immediate Chicago area has eight Global 500 companies and is tied at # 7 with Osaka. The following companies are within the five county metro area: Walgreen, Boeing, Kraft, Sears, Abbott Laboratories, United Continental Holdings, Allstate, and McDonald's.

Also, I notice that some entries in this table are regions, rather than metro areas (e.g. "Greater Golden Horseshoe"). Central Illinois is a region too, and I would like to see the following companies listed (at # 16) for "Central Illinois": Archer Daniels Midland, State Farm Insurance, Caterpillar and Deere.

I put the original research tag there for obvious reasons. --AntigrandiosËTalk 14:51, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Removed

I removed this list due to the fact that it is neither accurate or consistent. Please address both of these concerns if you plan on putting it back. --AntigrandiosËTalk 20:48, 14 March 2013 (UTC)


Fortune 2011 list- Breakdown by city and metropolitan area

This is a breakdown by cities and metropolitan areas as determined by Fortune in the 2011 list.[1] Metropolitan areas with at least three Global 500 companies are listed. The 2011 list does not include a list of cities sorted by Fortune 500 companies. The list is instead counted from the country listings.

Rank City Country Number of
Global 500
companies (City)
Global 500 revenues
$ millions (City)
Number of
Global 500
companies (Metro)
Global 500 revenues
$ millions (Metro)
1 Tokyo   Japan 47 $2,268,640 49 $2,430,053
2 Beijing   China 41 $2,222,366 41 $2,222,366
3 Paris   France 23 $1,285,432 31 $1,952,812
4 London   United Kingdom 18 $1,170,270 22 $1,366,389[note 1]
5 New York   United States 18 $955,291 27 $1,535,321[note 2]
6 Seoul   South Korea 12 $640,586 13 $660,149
7 Osaka   Japan 8 $376,607 10 $422,112
8 Toronto   Canada 7 $197,294 9 $241,303[note 3]
9 Houston   United States 6 $377,702 6 $377,702
9 Moscow   Russia 6 $348,084 6 $348,084
9 Madrid   Spain 6 $323,345 6 $323,345
9 Zurich    Switzerland 6 $221,818 10 $438,811
9 Mumbai   India 6 $207,156 6 $207,156
14 Amsterdam   Netherlands 5 $261,933 12 $885,156[note 4]
14 Shanghai   China 5 $165,751 5 $165,751
16 Munich   Germany 4 $386,355 4 $386,355
16 Rome   Italy 4 $283,454 4 $283,454
16 Atlanta   United States 4 $184,416 4 $184,416
16 Essen (Rhine-Ruhr)   Germany 4 $173,644 12 $680,567[note 5]
16 Brussels   Belgium 4 $144,833 5 $181,130
16 Hong Kong   HKG 4 $141,495 7 $252,227[note 6]
16 Frankfurt   Germany 4 $140,929 6 $191,255
16 São Paulo   Brazil 4 $135,406 4 $135,406
24 Stuttgart   Germany 3 $213,108 3 $213,108
24 Mexico City   Mexico 3 $169,776 3 $169,776
24 Milan   Italy 3 $109,943 3 $109,943
24 Philadelphia   United States 3 $94,643 5 $205,330
24 Taipei   Taiwan 3 $90,537 7 $260,966

Notes

  1. ^ London refers to Greater London.
  2. ^ New York includes Bridgeport as part of New York-Newark-Bridgeport New York-New Jersey-Connecticut-Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area (CSA).
  3. ^ Toronto includes Waterloo as part of Greater Golden Horseshoe.
  4. ^ Amsterdam refers to Randstad.
  5. ^ Rhine-Ruhr refers to Rhine-Ruhr area.
  6. ^ Hong Kong includes Shenzhen and Guangzhou as part of Pearl River Delta

Merger proposal

I suggest merging Fortune Global 500 and List of largest companies by revenue into a single article. They both cover essentially the same listing, namely a listing of largest companies measured by revenue. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 11:35, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

  • oppose not a same list (just theme); Fortune Global 500 is using slightly different methodology (and it is copyrighted). --Jklamo (talk) 12:53, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
  • Oppose. This article is about a specific list and includes commentary and criticisms about Fortune's methodology for generating the list. It's also a copyrighted listing; that's why we only include minimal portions of the list and not the full 500. By contrast, the list of largest companies is a list. Other than a comment about data sources, the content of that article is the list, pure and simple. Finally, it's reasonable to assume there are other lists of largest companies than Fortune's, so I don't think the general term should redirect to a specific list. (That said, if it turns out there are multiple notable lists like the Global 500, we'd need a List of lists of largest companies by revenue. :) ) —C.Fred (talk) 18:20, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
  • Oppose: The Fortune 500 list is a commercial product that meets the notability criteria to have an article about it, and therefore must stay; the only possible merger would be to take away the larger and more comprehensive list and essentially tell people to go get their information from Fortune instead of Wikipedia.
    Thatotherpersontalkcontribs 10:53, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
  1. ^ "Global 500 2010". Fortune. Retrieved July 10, 2010.