Apple now ranks 442nd on The Forbes Global 2000, a list of the largest companies worldwide based upon a composite ranking from four metrics: sales, profits, assets and market value. Apple shot up more than 300 positions from 762nd place on last year’s list. Forbes lists Apple’s sales at $9.76 billion, with profits of $510 million, and a market value of $36.66 billion. Apple now has over $9 billion in assets, and 11,695 employees.
Which company was number one? Citigroup. For reference, IBM is ranked 17th, Microsoft is 47th, HP is 54th, Sun is 766th, and Google is 904th.
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We’re # 442! We’re # 442!
Impressive for Apple.
But waaaaaaaaay better than Microsoft.
Apple has more than 11,000 employees?!? Holy crap.
Hey, remember how every employee at Apple used to get a number? No really — can you imagine the sheer pride you must feel if you’re walking around with “Employee #11,695” on your badge? Yeh-hesssss. Probably makes you feel like the last runner to finish the Boston Marathon.
Or BuyMusic.com.
441 were bigger than he, but Apple was looking for 443.
Go 47! Go 47!
The answer to life, the universe, and everything?
442.
Triumph—
“Probably makes you feel like the last runner to finish the Boston Marathon.
Or BuyMusic.com.”
BWAAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
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SMOKE IT, you Buymusic suckers!!!!!!!
“Apple now has over $9 billion in assets, and 11,695 employees.”
aehmm, next week they should be 11,696
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I was gonna buy an Apple computer but only shop at company´s ranked 441 and higher…
sigh, thanks MDN.
Compare with when Jobs took over. Sales of @ 2.5 billion, debt up the wazoo, and net worth of about @ 3.5 billion. Quite good, I would say. Go Apple!
Wow! 442th! Wow!
Sheeesh!
geez if they moved up that much in one year i cant wait to see where they’ll be next year…
The higher they go, the harder it’ll be to move up. The curve just gets steeper and steeper.