BNP Paribas

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The corporations on our annual list posted aggregate revenues of $41 trillion for the second year in a row.

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The French bank operates in 65 countries and has 190,000 employees. It made $89.6 billion in revenues in 2022, up 5% on the previous year, while earnings fell 4.4% to $10.7 billion.   
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Aggregate sales hit $37.8 trillion last year—an increase of 19%, the highest annual growth rate in the list’s history.

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Total revenue for the world’s biggest companies fell 4.8% to $31.7 trillion this year—the first decline in half a decade.

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This year's Fortune Global 500 generated $33.3 trillion in revenues and $2.1 trillion in profits.

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This year's Fortune Global 500 generated $27.7 trillion in revenues and $1.5 trillion in profits.

This year's Fortune Global 500 generated $27.6 trillion in revenues and $1.5 trillion in profits.

The world's 500 largest companies generated $31.2 trillion in revenues and $1.7 trillion in profits in 2014. Together, this year's Fortune Global 500 employ 65 million people worldwide and are represented by 36 countries.

Global business is back. After limping through a worldwide financial crisis and economic slowdown, the 500 largest companies ranked by revenues shattered all sorts of performance records in 2013: They racked up combined revenues of $31.1 trillion, up 2.5% from 2012, and profits soared 27% to nearly $2 trillion. China’s 95 companies (up from 89 last year) posted $5.8 trillion in revenues. The U.S. has four fewer companies on the list than last year but remains (for now) the country leader, with 128 corporations on the list—including No. 1 Wal-Mart Stores—reporting $8.6 trillion in revenues. 

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Formed in 2000 after retail bank Banque Nationale de Paris’s hostile takeover of Paribas, its largest two divisions reflect its twin origins—on the one side consumer and commercial banking focused on its home market of France, alongside Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg, and on the other global corporate and institutional banking. Paris-based BNP Paribas also has a smaller division, focused on insurance, pensions, wealth and asset management, and private banking.

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