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Oil and Natural Gas Corp, the State
Bank of India Group and Indian Oil lead the Indian charge
in the list of Forbes Global 2000 "corporate titans",
occupying the 265th, 269th and 279th positions respectively.
The magazine has listed 30 Indian companies among its Top
2000 worldwide firms that have performed well in the past
fiscal.
American multinationals Citigroup and General
Electric are right on top of the list. Among the other Indian
companies high in the list are Reliance Industries, National
Thermal Power Corp, ICICI Bank, Steel Authority of India Ltd,
Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum, Tata Consultancy Services,
Punjab National Bank, GAIL India and Infosys Technologies.
The companies were evaluated according to four criteria -
sales, profits, assets and market value.
While Indian energy and banking sector companies proved to
be the leaders, the top 10 performers in the list show that
this phenomenon is not exclusive to the Indian business scenario.
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The top 10 in the
list include three names from the banking sector and three
industries from the energy sector followed by two players
from the insurance sector. |
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Following are
the Indian companies that made it to the list:
Oil & Natural Gas
(rank 265, sales $9.78 billion, profits $2.16 billion)
State
Bank of India Group (269,
$12.09 billion, $1.28 billion)
Indian
Oil (279, $26.08 billion,
$1.73 billion)
Reliance
Industries (309, $11.82
billion, $1.19 billion)
National
Thermal Power Corp (486,
$4.5 billion, $0.92 billion)
ICICI
Bank (757, $3.18 billion,
$0.36 billion)
Steel
Authority of India (831,
$5.14 billion, $0.60 billion)
Bharat
Petroleum (914, $12.77 billion,
$0.47 billion)
Hindustan
Petroleum (1,011, $12.03
billion, $0.46 billion)
Tata
Consultancy Services (1,167,
$1.64 billion, $0.37 billion)
Punjab
National Bank (1,186, $2.32
billion, $0.28 billion)
GAIL
India (1,250, $2.75 billion,
$0.43 billion)
Infosys Technologies (1,250,
$1.12 billion, $0.29 billion)
Canara
Bank (1,260, $2.15 billion,
$0.32 billion)
Tata
Iron & Steel (1,302,
$2.57 billion, $0.41 billion)
ITC
(1,336, $1.59 billion, $0.37 billion)
Wipro
(1,362, $1.35 billion, $0.24 billion)
HDFC
(1,364, $0.75 billion, $0.22 billion)
Bank
of Baroda (1,370, $1.89
billion, $0.24 billion)
Bank
of India (1,371, $1.74 billion,
$0.24 billion)
Tata
Motors (1,519, $3.15 billion,
$0.21 billion)
Union
Bank of India (1,618, $1.23
billion, $0.16 billion)
Bharti
Tele-Ventures (1,648, $1.15
billion, $0.13 billion)
Oriental
Bank of Commerce (1,811,
$0.93 billion, $0.16 billion)
Mahanagar
Telephone Nigam Ltd (1,835,
$1.41 billion, $0.27 billion)
Bharat
Heavy Electricals Ltd (1,907,
$1.85 billion, $0.15 billion)
Ranbaxy
Laboratories (1,936, $0.97
billion, $0.16 billion)
Indian
Overseas Bank (1,959, $1.04
billion, $0.12 billion) |
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