The richest company in the world. The richest companies

Any company is created with only one purpose - to get high profits from its activities. Of course, the direction in which the firm works can be, of course, anything, but every sane manager of a large company with a world name in any case, without fail, develops a detailed plan, which he adheres to the implementation of the tasks. In this article, we will consider what the richest company in the world is today, who leads it and what it does specifically. Also, a list of those organizations that occupy the leading positions in the world ranking of the richest corporations will be presented.

Main field of activity

Studying the rating of the world's richest companies, it's easy to notice even to an inexperienced person that to date (to be precise, by the end of 2015) the leading positions are occupied by those corporations whose main focus is modern technologies and their active implementation in our dynamic life. Also in the list you can find companies involved in the industrial sector, oil and gas industry, pharmaceuticals, consumer sector, telecommunications, finance. At the same time, the world's richest company, whose name will be named below, is significantly ahead of its closest competitors in terms of its capitalization. Surprisingly, this brand is not the oldest in age, but he managed to break into absolute leaders in terms of both sales volume and authorized capital.

Bitten Apple

It is this logo that the world's richest company has chosen for itself. Her name is Apple. It appeared in 1976, and its creators were Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. The main direction of the company's work is the production of high-performance computer equipment, phones, laptops, tablets and other similar developments. It should be noted that all Apple products are characterized by ease of operation, convenience and accessibility for all segments of the population. The company very zealously protects all of its latest technical developments from existing competitors, closely monitors the quality of the product, regularly opens new outlets. The company also has a huge number of patents for software development.

At the moment, Apple has the highest profitability on the planet in terms of the number of products sold, design and prestige level. It is also very good that the company does not stop at the achieved results and constantly strives to move forward even despite the death of one of the ideological leaders - Steve Jobs. As a result, Apple is estimated at 748.7 billion US dollars.

The brainchild of Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway began its triumphal ascent to the world trade Olympus in 1962, when at that time the little-known investor Buffett, noting the positive growth of this textile manufactory, invested in it his money.

Today Berkshire Hathaway has changed its sphere of activity. Now she is engaged in the management of railway transport assets, confectionary companies, jewelry business, publishing houses, vacuum cleaner manufacturers and media business. The company employs about two hundred thousand employees. At the end of 2015, a huge corporation took the fifth place in the world rating list with a capital of 351.2 billion dollars.

Multi-vector giant

In 1878 the company General Electric was created. One of its founders was Thomas Edison himself - the legendary inventor and innovator. At the initial stage the company was engaged in the production of incandescent lamps. In today's conditions, the company pays attention to several areas, namely:

• To medicine.
• Power engineering.
• Transport.
• Lighting equipment.
• Aviation.
• Finance.

Largely thanks to such a wide range of business interests, the company entered the ninth place in the world in terms of capital with an indicator of 275.4 billion dollars.

Family business

One of the most famous American companies Johnson and Johnson arose in 1886 thanks to the efforts of the Johnson brothers - Robert, Edward and James. In our time, the company is run by Alex Gorski.

The priority directions of the company's detail are today:

• Manufacture of medical equipment and materials.
• Release of consumer goods.
• Pharmaceuticals.

In addition, the company owns many other brands, including several of the world's top brands such as Nizoral, Nicorette, OB, Clean & Clear and others.

Today's capitalization of Johnson and Johnson is 277.3 billion dollars, which, in turn, allowed it to enter the eighth line of the world rating.

Titan Trade

Wal-Mart Stores - another representative of the United States of America, which originated in 1962 due to the efforts of Sam Walton.

The main activity of the company is retail trade, and in shops of the giant it is possible to buy literally everything, from a needle and finishing household appliances. The format of stores is understandable to any modern man - hypermarkets, whose distinguishing feature is very low prices, you can even say wholesale. This feature of Wal-Mart Stores led to the fact that in those small cities, which opened at least a trading point of the company, all other smaller stores were very often closed, unable to compete with the giant.

The estimated cost of the company at the end of 2015 was $ 240.4 billion. This amount of capital led the American trade monster to the 15th line of the conditional rating.

Oil and gas monopolist

Chevron is the largest US energy corporation, which is primarily involved in oil and gas production. It also processes raw materials, maintains and maintains a huge network of gas stations in the normal state. The company was established in the already far away from us in 1879. In our time, the board of directors is headed by John Watson. It was largely due to its active position that the company was able to reach a capitalization level of $ 192.9 billion and stake out a position in the ranking of the world's richest companies.

We will also point out that Chevron is the second integrated largest oil corporation on the planet. The main office of the company is located in Houston. In addition, 40% of the world's oil refineries use the technology of hydraulic oil treatment by the methods of Chevron.

The largest engine manufacturers (DaimlerChrysler, Caterpillar, Cummins) are actively using lubricants and additives Chevron.

IT Service Provider

IBM is the manufacturer of the world's first computers. The American giant is known all over the world. It produces equipment for servers, super-fast computers, programs, systems for storing a variety of data, and provides consulting services. In some ways, IBM is the benchmark for which other similar corporations are oriented, because the level of its work is extremely high, and the activity has three main vectors:

• Global Services - control and management of various applications, the implementation of system integration. About 200 thousand employees are involved in this area of activity.
• Software development. This work brings the company 25% of its profits.
• Production of servers.

In the conditions of our reality, the company is estimated at 167.1 billion dollars (42 positions in the world rating).

Above was indicated the richest company in the world, and it would be quite logical to talk about the silver and bronze medal winners in the capital level.

So, the second position was taken by the corporation Microsoft with the authorized capital of 380.7 billion dollars. Its creator is the world-famous Bill Gates, who started to display this company on the world market in 1975. Today Microsoft is one of the leading manufacturers of computer hardware and software. The company also developed a search engine Bing.

"Bronze" also went to the world's largest search engine - Google. The estimated cost of the company is 367.9 billion dollars. More than 41 billion searches search engine handles every month and is rightly considered in this direction as a world leader.