World 500 in 1998

GLOBAL 500 RANK	COMPANY	REVENUES $ millions
1	General Motors Corporation	178,174
2	Ford Motor Company	153,627
3	Mitsui & Co., Ltd.	142,688
4	Mitsubishi Corporation	128,922
5	Royal Dutch/Shell Group	128,142
6	Itochu Corporation	126,632
7	Exxon Corporation	122,379
8	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	119,299
9	Marubeni Corporation	111,121
10	Sumitomo Corporation	102,395
11	Toyota Motor Corporation	95,137
12	General Electric Company	90,840
13	Nissho Iwai Corporation	81,894
14	International Business Machines Corporation	78,508
15	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation	76,984
16	AXA	76,874
17	Daimler-Benz AG	71,561
18	Daewoo Group	71,526
19	Nippon Life Insurance Company	71,388
20	The British Petroleum p.l.c.	71,193
21	Hitachi, Ltd.	68,567
22	Volkswagen AG	65,328
23	Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.	64,281
24	Siemens AG	63,755
25	Chrysler Corporation	61,147
26	Mobil Corporation	59,978
27	United States Postal Service	58,216
28	Allianz AG	56,785
29	Philip Morris Companies Inc.	56,114
30	Sony Corporation	55,033
31	Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.	53,478
32	AT&T Corp.	53,261
33	Fiat S.p.A.	52,569
34	Honda Motor Co., Ltd.	48,876
35	Unilever N.V./ Unilever PLC	48,761
36	Nestl S.A.	48,254
37	Credit Suisse Group	48,242
38	The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co.	47,442
39	The Boeing Company	45,800
40	Texaco Inc.	45,187
41	Toshiba Corporation	44,467
42	State Farm Insurance Companies	43,957
43	Veba AG	43,881
44	Elf Aquitaine	43,572
45	Tomen Corporation	43,400
46	The Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.	42,997
47	Hewlett-Packard Company	42,895
48	Sumitomo Life Insurance Company	42,279
49	E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc.	41,304
50	Sears, Roebuck and Co.	41,296