List of the largest global technology companies
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[edit] Global Technology Companies
A list of the largest Global Technology Companies by worldwide turnover in 2006[1] according to Datamonitor.
[edit] The largest Global Technology Companies
| # | Organisation | 2007 Turnover (USD million) |
2006 Turnover (USD million) |
Headquarters | Foundation | Executive Head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) | $104,300m | $94,000m | Palo Alto, California, USA | 1939 | Mark V. Hurd, Chairman, CEO and President |
| 2 | International Business Machines (IBM) | $98,800m | $91,424m | Armonk, New York, USA | 1889 | Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman & CEO |
| 3 | Hitachi, Ltd. | $94,998m | $60,688.5m | Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan | 1910 | Kazuo Furukawa, President |
| 4 | Samsung Electronics | $89,500m | $74,872.6m | Suwon, South Korea | 1969 | Jong-Yong Yun, CEO |
| 5 | Nokia Corporation | $78,619m | $42,233m | Espoo, Finland | 1865 | Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President & CEO;
Jorma Ollila, Chairman |
| 6 | Sony Corporation | $76,201m | $54,975m | Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan | 1946, May 7 | Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman and CEO |
| 7 | Dell Inc. | $57,400m | $55,908m | Round Rock, Texas, USA | 1984, November 4 | Michael Dell, Founder and CEO |
| 8 | Microsoft Corporation | $51,120m | $44,282m | Redmond, Washington, USA | 1975, April 4 | Bill Gates, Co-founder and Executive Chairman; Steve Ballmer, CEO |
| 9 | NEC Corporation | $47,589m | $39,993m | Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan | 1899 | Hajime Sasaki, Chairman of the Board; Kaoru Yano, President |
| 10 | Motorola | $42,879m | $28,383m | Schaumburg, Illinois, USA | 1928 | Edward Zander, Chairman; Greg Brown, President and CEO |
| 11 | Canon Inc. | $40,745m | $35,730.4m | Ota-ku, Tokyo | 1937, August 10 | Fujio Mitarai, Chairman & CEO |
| 12 | Intel Corporation | $38,300m | $35,382m | Santa Clara, California, USA | 1968 | Paul S. Otellini, CEO; Craig Barrett, Chairman |
| 13 | Cisco Systems | $34,922m | $28,484m | San Jose, California, USA | 1984 | John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO |
| 14 | Apple Inc. | $24,010m | $19,315m | Cupertino, California, USA | 1976, April 1 | Steve Jobs, CEO & Co-founder |
| 15 | Electronic Data Systems (EDS) | $22,134m | $21,268m | Plano, Texas, USA | 1962, June 27 | Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, Chairman, President & CEO |
[edit] See also
- World's largest software companies
- List of technology companies in Ottawa, Canada
- List of IT companies in Bangalore
- List of Software Consulting Companies
[edit] External links
- Datamonitor - All lists
- Forbes - The World's 2000 Largest Public Companies
- Fortune Global 500 - 2007
