With over *** billion U.S. dollars in revenue, Walmart topped the ranking of the hundred largest companies globally, followed by Amazon. Walmart was also the largest company in the world based on its number of employees, with some *** million all over the world. Largest corporations based on revenue - additional information The concept of revenue itself might slightly differ depending on country or even from one company to another. It usually refers to the income resulted from normal business activities, such as the sale of goods and services to customers. Walmart The American-based multinational corporation Walmart was founded in 1962 and currently operates over ****** stores worldwide, out of which ***** are in the United States alone. In 2024, Walmart was ranked the third most valuable retail brand in the world, with a brand value of about ** billion U.S. dollars. Follow this link to get access to the top 500 companies from all industries list.

Shell had the highest annual revenue of all companies based in the United Kingdom in 2025, at approximately 284 billion U.S. dollars. BP had the second-highest annual revenue at over 189 billion dollars, followed by HSBC Holdings, which had a revenue of around 142 billion U.S. dollars. In terms of global employee numbers, however, Compass Group had the highest number among UK-based businesses, at approximately half a million in 2024, followed by Tesco at 336,400 and HSBC at almost 211,000. Big Oil, a banking giant, and Britain's top supermarket chain The two companies listed as having the most revenue in the UK this year are also two of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world, alongside Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies. After a huge surge in energy prices in 2022, these companies saw their profits recede slightly in 2023, but clearly remain in strong financial positions as of 2024. HSBC Holdings, meanwhile, was the largest bank in Europe in terms of market capitalization, and was estimated to have the second-highest number of UK-based customers in 2024. The company with the fourth-highest revenue in this year, Tesco has by some distance the largest grocery-market share in Great Britain, a position it has maintained despite growing competition from discounters like Lidl and Aldi. UK economy health check In the first quarter of 2025, the UK economy grew by 0.7 percent, emerging from a brief slowdown in growth towards the end of 2024. Consumer Price inflation, has, however, started to increase, with the inflation rate reaching 3.5 percent in April, the highest rate since January 2024. Furthermore, the UK labor market is showing signs of weakness, with quite a high number of job losses since the start of the year. Alongside these generally negative signs, business confidence in the UK has been falling, with the main concern of UK firms being that of taxation, as of early 2025.

Walmart had about *** million employees in 2024, the highest of all companies worldwide that year. Walmart also led ranking of companies by revenue in 2024. In terms of employees, Amazon followed in second with ahead of Foxconn, also known as Hoi Han Precision Industry.WalmartIn the United States, where Walmart has its highest number of employees, there are ***** stores as of 2023, and some ***** of these stores are Walmart’s Supercenters . The company has expanded all around the world, especially having a high number of stores in Central America. Amazon The number of people employed by Amazon has increased rapidly in recent years. In 2019, less than ******* people worked at the technology company, whereas it employed nearly *** million in 2024. As with the number of employees, its net revenue has also increased over the last years.

As per a recent market study, in 2019, ** percent of CenturyLink's customers were startups, with ** percent being SMBs (small and mid-size businesses). Data Foundry had a greater focus on startups, with ** percent of their customers being companies who had less than *** employees.

In 2024, Cargill was the largest private company in the United States, by revenue. That year, they had a revenue of 160 billion U.S. dollars. In comparison, gas station company QuikTrip made around 19.6 billion U.S. dollars. Cargill Cargill is a multinational corporation that focuses on agricultural services, crop and livestock, raw materials, and health and pharmaceuticals. Most of their business focuses on purchasing and distributing grain, palm oil, energy trade, and steel. It is a family-owned business headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and founded in 1865. It operates in over 60 countries, has about 150,000 employees, and is responsible for about a quarter of all United States grain exports. Additionally, it also supplies about a quarter of the domestic meat market. Largest U.S. companies United Healthcare Group was the largest health insurance company in 2018, while SC Johnson was the largest private household and personal care product company. United Healthcare is also headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, while SC Johnson is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin. United Healthcare is not only the largest health insurance company in the United States, but also worldwide. Furthermore, SC Johnson is one of the oldest family-owned companies in the country, and currently over owns over 20 brands.

In 2024, there were approximately ***** software as a service (SaaS) companies in the United States. Together, they had around ** billion customers worldwide. The United Kingdom takes the second place with ***** companies and *** million customers worldwide. SaaS is a software licensing model delivered via the cloud. What is SaaS? SaaS, often referred to as “on-demand software”, is a software distribution model in which the service provider hosts the program in a data center for consumers to access via the internet. Customers that subscribe to the service can access the software with just a client program or web browser. In the process, it eliminates the requirement to maintain the hardware or other resources that were previously necessary. Human capital management (HCM) software, collaboration software and customer relationship management (CRM) software are among the applications where public cloud SaaS has a high penetration rate. Major providers Big tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet(Google) are the leading providers in the global SaaS market. A leading player in B2B customer relationship management (CRM), Qualtrics brought in total net sales of *** million U.S. dollars in 2022.

In 2025, Costco generated over 200 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from their operations in the United States. In Canada and through its international ventures, the company generated 36.9 billion and 38.3 billion U.S. dollars, respectively. Costco Wholesale CorporationCostco opened its first warehouse in Seattle, Washington in 1983 and has since expanded to become one of the most respected and valuable retailers in the United States and worldwide. Over the last several years, Costco has seen a yearly increase in its global net sales, rising from 110.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2014 to 249.6 billion U.S. dollars by 2024. The company operates warehouse clubs in a number of countries around the world. However, the vast majority of the retailer’s warehouses are still located in their home market of the United States. Costco Customers Costco stands out among numerous mass merchants by requiring customers to pay a yearly membership fee in order to shop at its locations. In 2023, the majority of Costco’s American customer base fell within the age range of 18 to 49 years. The company takes pride in achieving the highest customer satisfaction rating among all department and discount stores in the same period.

The ranking shows the leading FMCG companies worldwide in 2024, based on generated net sales. In that year, Unilever was ranked as the ***** largest consumer goods company worldwide with net sales of about ***** billion U.S. dollars. The consumer goods industry Consumer goods are goods which are intended for everyday private consumption. They are further classified as fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and slow moving consumer goods (SMCG). FMCG are goods with a lifespan shorter than a year. Popular categories include food and beverages, personal care and household products, clothing and apparel, tobacco, and pet food/pet care. These categories are bought quite frequently with recurring expenditure. In contrast to SMCG, the products tend to be sold high in volume, but low in cost. FMCG are also known as Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG). FMCG companies The FMCG environment is highly competitive as FMCG companies are always on the hunt for the next great product discovery or innovation in order to meet consumer’s needs. Some of the leading key players of the FMCG environment include Nestlé, Procter & Gamble (P&G), Unilever, PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola Company. All of them operate internationally and have to try to meet country-specific requirements regarding product packaging and labeling. Their million dollar brands can be found in many household pantries. In order to keep consumers as regular buyers, CPG companies try to develop loyalty and trust towards their brands. Ariel, Gillette, Pampers and Pantene are considered to be among the most famous brands of P&G.

Compass Group had by far the highest number of global employees among companies based in the United Kingdom as of 2025, at approximately 500,000 employees. Tesco had the second-highest number of employees at around 336,400, followed by HSBC Holdings which had 211,000 employees. In the same year, HSBC Holdings had an annual revenue of 142.3 billion U.S. dollars, the third-highest among UK-based companies. The oil and gas giant Shell had the highest annual revenue at over 283 billion dollars, ahead of BP at 189 billion dollars. How many businesses are there in the UK? In 2024, there were approximately 5.5 million business enterprises in the UK, down from a peak of 5.98 million in 2020. Although there were just 1,930 large firms that employed 1,000 people or more, these firms employed more than a quarter of the UK's private sector workforce, and made a combined turnover of approximately 1.69 trillion British pounds. As of this year, the construction industry had the highest number of enterprises by sector, at over 870,000. The sector with the most workers was that of wholesale and retail, which collectively employed just under 4.9 million people in 2024, and also had the highest turnover compared to other sectors, at over 1.8 trillion pounds. Current UK economic climate Although the UK economy is expected to grow in 2025, growth has been downgraded from earlier forecasts, while inflation and unemployment are expected to be higher than initially thought. According to the business confidence index, sentiment among businesses at the end of 2024 was lower than it has been since early 2021. Furthermore, since the start of 2025, businesses have been shedding jobs at an accelerating rate, possibly due to recent tax rises, which was seen as the main external concern of businesses in early 2025. The precarious state of the UK's government finances, and potential tax rises in the next budget, are also likely feeding into this pessimistic mood.

This statistic shows the revenue of the top-performing consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies worldwide in 2013. In that year, Procter & Gamble was the largest CPG companies in the world, with revenue amounting to about **** billion U.S. dollars.

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Consumer packaged goods (CPG) are defined as products which are intended for everyday use. They have to be replaced quite frequently in contrast to products that are usable for an extended period of time such as cars. CPG are further classified into fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and slow moving consumer goods (SMCG). The classification is based on how fast products are sold from the supermarket shelf to the customer, a determining factor in the rotation of goods. FMCG comprise goods with a useful life shorter than a year including food and beverages, personal care products, household products, cleaning products, and tobacco. They are affordable at relatively low cost and literally just fly off the supermarket shelves. SMCG have a much lower purchasing frequency and are therefore more costly regarding storage space. This category comprises items such as household appliances, furniture and home improvement products, which usually have a useful life longer than a year. The fast-paced CPG business is quite competitive, highly dynamic and innovative in order to meet consumers’ needs. Some of the industry’s key players include Procter & Gamble, Unilever and L’Oréal.

The Irish company Accenture employed over 700 thousand people worldwide in 2024, the most of any European company. The next largest European company in terms of people employed was the German car manufacturer Volkswagen, which employed over 600 thousand people, followed by Compass group, which had 562 thousand employees. Oil giants lead in terms of revenue Although Accenture had the highest number of employees worldwide, it was not between the top ten European companies in terms of revenue. The two largest European Companies by revenue were Volkswagen and Shell, which had a revenue of 348.41 billion US dollars and 323.18 billion US dollars respectively. Walmart tops worldwide rankings Although it was the largest European employer, Accenture's 732 thousand-strong workforce is dwarfed by the 2.1 million people that are employed by the American retail giant, Walmart. As well as having the largest number of employees worldwide, Walmart also boasted the largest revenue of any company, amounting to over 648 billion US dollars in 2024.

Astrazeneca was the leading pharmaceutical company in the United Kingdom as of March 7, 2024, with a market capitalization amounting to approximately ***** billion U.S. dollars. GlaxoSmithKline followed as the second largest pharma company in the country, with market capitalization of nearly **** billion U.S. dollars. Examining the development of the FTSE 100 Index, which was launched in January 1984 with a base level of 1,000, increased by more than sevenfold to date. What is the FTSE 100 index? The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, commonly known as the "Footsie", is the most widely recognized stock market index in the United Kingdom. It is made up of the 100 largest blue-chip companies on the London Stock Exchange. Companies from various sectors, such as healthcare, consumer goods, and energy, are included in the index, as are leading banks of the United Kingdom, such as HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, and Barclays. Moreover, it can be seen as a reflection of the investment climate in the United Kingdom. What is not included in the FTSE 100 Index? Most notably, the FTSE 100 Index, like most indices, is not adjusted for inflation. While inflation in the United Kingdom has gone down dramatically since 2023, it might be useful to adjust the historic figures on the index when comparing historic data to current levels. This is especially important when the index seems to have increased by a few percentage points because inflation may have increased at a faster rate than stock prices.

As of October 2025, the United States had approximately 96.9 million Pinterest users, making it the platform’s largest market worldwide. Brazil ranked second, with around 42.2 million users. Pinterest’s audience In the first quarter of 2024, Pinterest had a total of 518 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide, an increase of 2 million users from the previous quarter. Throughout 2021, the social media site saw a steady decline in MAUs, after seeing a constant increase throughout 2020. The increase in usage of many social media platforms coincides with the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdowns. As of April 2024, significantly more women than men used Pinterest, with women making up almost 3/4 of its user base. The platform’s largest audience, in terms of gender and age, was women between the ages of 25 to 34, who accounted for more than a fifth of all users, followed by women aged 18 to 24 years. User satisfaction According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), as of June 2021, Pinterest scored the highest level of customer satisfaction for selected social media sites, ranking ahead of platforms such as YouTube, Wikipedia, and TikTok. Overall, Pinterest received a total score of 78 out of 100 index points. Pinterest’s financials For the financial year 2023, Pinterest generated over 3 billion U.S. dollars in global annual revenue, a rise from the previous year’s result of 2.8 billion U.S. dollars. The majority of this revenue was generated in the United States. Additionally, in the last quarter of 2023, the social media platform reported a net loss of over 200 million U.S. dollars. As of June 2023, Pinterest was one of the biggest consumer internet and online service companies worldwide in terms of market capitalization. With a market cap of 19 billion U.S. dollars, Pinterest ranked in 16th place, ahead of Chewy, Delivery Hero, and Etsy.

As of October 2025, Google represented ***** percent of the global online search engine referrals on desktop devices. Despite being much ahead of its competitors, this represents a modest increase from the previous months. Meanwhile, its longtime competitor Bing accounted for ***** percent, as tools like Yahoo and Yandex held shares of over **** percent and **** percent respectively. Google and the global search market Ever since the introduction of Google Search in 1997, the company has dominated the search engine market, while the shares of all other tools has been rather lopsided. The majority of Google revenues are generated through advertising. Its parent corporation, Alphabet, was one of the biggest internet companies worldwide as of 2024, with a market capitalization of **** trillion U.S. dollars. The company has also expanded its services to mail, productivity tools, enterprise products, mobile devices, and other ventures. As a result, Google earned one of the highest tech company revenues in 2024 with roughly ****** billion U.S. dollars. Search engine usage in different countries Google is the most frequently used search engine worldwide. But in some countries, its alternatives are leading or competing with it to some extent. As of the last quarter of 2023, more than ** percent of internet users in Russia used Yandex, whereas Google users represented little over ** percent. Meanwhile, Baidu was the most used search engine in China, despite a strong decrease in the percentage of internet users in the country accessing it. In other countries, like Japan and Mexico, people tend to use Yahoo along with Google. By the end of 2024, nearly half of the respondents in Japan said that they had used Yahoo in the past four weeks. In the same year, over ** percent of users in Mexico said they used Yahoo.

ASOS is one of the most successful online-only fashion retailers in the industry. Originally a UK-based company, ASOS had the highest number of users in the European Union as of September 2024. Globally, there are around 20 million active customers on asos.com, which the retailer defines as “having shopped in the last twelve months” as of the end of the financial year. ASOS's success Since 2014, sales figures increased in every market ASOS was active in. With it's massive customer base, ASOS is easily ranked among the top online stores in the UK in 2023. ASOS: a pure player in a multichannel industry The apparel and clothing industry ASOS competes in is an increasingly multichannel one, where retailers offer their customers the best of both worlds, often providing convenient shopping and delivery options such as click-and-collect. However, the fact that ASOS has stuck to its online-only business model doesn’t seem to cause any disadvantages to the retailer. Based on enterprise-value-to-EBITDA, ASOS was one of the leading fashion e-commerce companies worldwide as of 2024.

Microsoft 365 is used by over * million companies worldwide, with over *** million customers in the United States alone using the office suite software. Office 365 is the brand name previously used by Microsoft for a group of software applications providing productivity related services to its subscribers. Office 365 applications include Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. The consumer and small business plans of Office 365 were renamed as Microsoft 365 on 21 April, 2020. Global office suite market share  An office suite is a collection of software applications (word processing, spreadsheets, database etc.) designed to be used for tasks within an organization. Worldwide market share of office suite technologies is split between Google’s G Suite and Microsoft’s Office 365, with G Suite controlling around ** percent of the global market and Office 365 holding around ** percent. This trend is similar across most worldwide regions.

During its 2024 fiscal year, Amway was the world’s leading direct selling company with global revenue of over ***** billion U.S. dollars. Amway is a multi-level marketing company based in Michigan, United States, that sells health, home care, and beauty products. Direct selling is a business model in which entrepreneurial-minded people independently provide products and services to the customer directly, either by buying from or in affiliation with a parent organization. Herbalife Nutrition Amway is the leading company within the direct selling world, however, there are many other companies in the United States and across the globe that sell to the consumer directly. One such example is Herbalife. With global net sales reaching a total of **** billion U.S. dollars, Herbalife ranks as one of the largest direct sellers of dietary supplements. Some of the company’s main markets include North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Direct sellers in the United States There are many individuals, especially in the United States, that become direct sellers, whether they do it on their own or as part of these person-to-person marketing enterprises. In 2023, there were close to *** million part-time and roughly **** a million full-time sellers in the United States. Compared to one year earlier, the combined total of direct sellers in the country had declined.

As of October 2025, India had the largest Facebook audience worldwide, with over 403 million users. To put this figure into perspective, if India’s Facebook user base were a country, it would rank as the third most populous nation globally. Besides India, three other markets had more than 100 million Facebook users each: the United States, Indonesia and Brazil. Facebook – the most used social media Meta, the company that was previously called Facebook, owns four of the most popular social media platforms worldwide, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram. As of the third quarter of 2021, there were around 3.5 billion cumulative monthly users of the company’s products worldwide. With around 2.9 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the most popular social media worldwide. With an audience of this scale, it is no surprise that the vast majority of Facebook’s revenue is generated through advertising. Facebook usage by device As of July 2021, it was found that 98.5 percent of active users accessed their Facebook account from mobile devices. In fact, almost 81.8 percent of Facebook audiences worldwide access the platform only via mobile phone. Facebook is not only available through mobile browser as the company has published several mobile apps for users to access their products and services. As of the third quarter 2021, the four core Meta products were leading the ranking of most downloaded mobile apps worldwide, with WhatsApp amassing approximately six billion downloads.

In 2024, global retail e-commerce sales reached an estimated ************ U.S. dollars. Projections indicate a ** percent growth in this figure over the coming years, with expectations to come close to ************** dollars by 2028. World players Among the key players on the world stage, the American marketplace giant Amazon holds the title of the largest e-commerce player globally, with a gross merchandise value of nearly *********** U.S. dollars in 2024. Amazon was also the most valuable retail brand globally, followed by mostly American competitors such as Walmart and the Home Depot. Leading e-tailing regions E-commerce is a dormant channel globally, but nowhere has it been as successful as in Asia. In 2024, the e-commerce revenue in that continent alone was measured at nearly ************ U.S. dollars, outperforming the Americas and Europe. That year, the up-and-coming e-commerce markets also centered around Asia. The Philippines and India stood out as the swiftest-growing e-commerce markets based on online sales, anticipating a growth rate surpassing ** percent.

As of the end of Vodafone's 2024/25 financial year, Germany had the largest number of mobile customers out of the European countries, with almost 30 million mobile customers. The United Kingdom followed closely, with around 18 million customers. Vodafone globallyVodafone has millions of customers spread out all around the world. Vodafone has operations in over 30 different countries and also has partner operations in many additional places. The company enjoys a significant share of the telecommunications markets in a number of the different countries where it operates. In particular, the company has a very high share of the market in South Africa, where Vodafone owns 46 percent of the leading company, Vodacom. As one might expect, seeing how many millions of customers the company has, Vodafone also generates high levels of revenue each year. Since 2009, the company has consistently generated more than 40 billion euros annually. As a result Vodafone was ranked sixth in the list of the most valuable telecommunications brands in the worldwide in 2023. Ahead of Vodafone were AT&T, China Mobile, Verizon, and Deutsche Telekom. In the United Kingdom, Vodafone is the leading corporate brand. Vodafone also has a significant number of employees dispersed all around the world. In 2024, the company had in total nearly 92 thousand employees, working in the areas of customer care and administration, selling and distribution and operations.