Global 500 - Top Companies: Biggest Employers

Our annual ranking of the world's largest corporations

Top companies: Biggest employers

Rank	Company	Global500 Rank	2011 Number of Employees▾
1	Wal-Mart Stores	3	2,200,000
2	China National Petroleum	6	1,668,072
3	State Grid	7	1,583,000
4	Sinopec Group	5	1,021,979
5	Hon Hai Precision Industry	43	961,000
6	China Post Group	258	889,307
7	U.S. Postal Service	135	601,601
8	Volkswagen	12	501,956
9	China Telecommunications	221	491,447
10	Aviation Industry Corp. of China	250	480,147
11	Compass Group	432	471,108
12	Agricultural Bank of China	84	447,401
13	International Business Machines	57	433,362
14	Deutsche Post	98	423,502
15	McDonald's	410	420,000
16	Carrefour	39	412,443
17	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	54	408,859
18	Tesco	59	406,088
19	Gazprom	15	401,000
20	Sodexo	495	391,148
21	Target	120	365,000
22	Siemens	47	360,000
23	China Resources National	233	350,524
24	Hewlett-Packard	31	349,600
25	Kroger	75	339,000
26	Panasonic	66	330,767
27	Jardine Matheson	275	330,000
28	China Construction Bank	77	329,438
29	Nestlé	71	328,000
30	Toyota Motor	10	325,905
31	Hitachi	38	323,540
32	United Parcel Service	177	310,010
33	Edeka Zentrale	342	306,000
34	HSBC Holdings	53	305,984
35	Robert Bosch	110	302,519
36	China Southern Power Grid	152	301,539
37	General Electric	22	301,000
38	PepsiCo	133	297,000
39	China Railway Group	112	294,761
40	Sears Holdings	245	293,000
41	State Bank of India	285	292,215
42	China Railway Construction	111	291,598
43	Telefónica	82	291,027
44	Bank of China	93	289,951
45	Deutsche Bahn	179	284,319
46	Bank of America Corp.	46	281,791
47	China North Industries Group	205	279,563
48	EXOR Group	45	273,460
49	Daimler	21	271,370
50	Berkshire Hathaway	24	270,858

From the July 23, 2012 issue

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