Company--Largest (Foreign Countries)
Largest companies for a foreign country are usually ranked in company handbooks for specific regions of the world or for individual countries.  Pollak Library has the following regional company handbooks:

• Global Company Handbook - Reference HG4009 .C54
• Hoover's Masterlist of Major Latin American Companies - 5th floor south HG4091.5.Z65 H66
• Hoover's Masterlist of Major European Companies - 5th floor south HG4132.Z5 H66 
• Europe's 15,000 Largest Companies - Reference HD 2356 E9 E932
• Germany's Top 500 -  5th floor south HD2857 .G47 

Other ranking lists available in the Pollak Library include:

• European Business Rankings - 5th floor south HG4132 .N496
• Fortune Global 500 Directory - 5th floor south HG4009 .F651
• The Times 1000 - 5th floor south HG4135 .T54
• World Business Rankings Annual - Reference Business Table HF54.U5 W67

Forbes International 500
 

• Available on business tables.

Features:  Provides a ranking of the top 500 companies worldwide.  Companies may be searched by country, industry, name or ranking.  This site provides and easy and up-to-date way of finding the top companies in a particular country.

Euromonitor GMID

Features:  Provides market share, market size, and company  information for markets around the world.

global EDGE

Features:  this site, from Michigan State University, provides country profiles which include listings of the largest corporations in each country.  Note:  This is not a comprehensive source.  Not every country has listings and some only have a few.

Company--Largest (local)

Orange County Business Journal Book of Lists
Los Angeles Business Journal Book of Lists

Features:  Annual publication that ranks the largest companies in Southern California by a variety of criteria, including sales, industry, employees, and more.  The most recent editions of each publication are kept in the reference section.
 

Los Angeles Times Business Section

Features:  The daily PRINT edition features a list of the largest publicly traded companies in Southern California.

D&B Million Dollar Database

Features:  A customizable search allows the user to list companies by region, industry and rank them by sales or number of employees. 

Mint Global

Features: A customizable search allows the user to generate lists of companies by region, industry, or a combination of both and rank them by revenue, number of employees, etc.  Mint Global contains the largest amount of companies of any database we subscribe to.

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Last Updated:  9 July 2008