"Chief Editor, this is the first edition of the 1995 Fortune 500 list, please review it!" In the faraway United States of America, an editor-in-chief handed a thick list of names to the editor-in-chief.
Fortune magazine was one of the world's most famous financial magazines, and this magazine was most famous for their annual global ranking of the Fortune 500. For countless companies, it was almost their lifelong dream and goal to be on the list of the Fortune 500.
With the passing of 1995, it was March 1996. At this time, most of the listed companies had published their annual reports, and it was time for Fortune magazine to start preparing the 1995 Fortune 500 list.
At this moment, the first edition of this list had been completed, and the chief editor was responsible for reviewing it. Because this list was the most important sign of Fortune magazine, and it was also related to countless well-known companies in the world. If a company's ranking was wrong, it would cause the anger of a business tycoon.
Therefore, the chief editor was very cautious and looked at the list one by one.
"The first place is still the same, Fusang Mitsubishi, with annual sales of 175.835 billion US dollars!"
"The second place is Fusang Mitsubishi, with annual sales of 171.49 billion US dollars."
The third place is Fusang Itochu, with annual sales of 167.824 trillion US dollars.
The fourth place is Fusang Sumitomo …
The fifth place is United States General Motors.
The sixth place is Fusang Marubeni.
The seventh place is United States Ford Motor Company.
The eighth place is Exxon.
The ninth place is Iwai.
The tenth place is Royal Dutch Shell.
The eleventh place is Toyota.
The twelfth place is Wal-Mart, with a total revenue of 83.412 billion US dollars.
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The 207th place is Hua Xia Bank, with a total revenue of 15.288 billion US dollars.
For the name of Hua Xia Bank, the chief editor just glanced at it and didn't care at all.
The 209th place is Hua Xia Chemical Group, with a total revenue of 14.981 billion US dollars.
The 409th place is Pacific Telecom Group, with a total revenue of 9.494 billion US dollars.
The 432nd place is Pangang, with a total revenue of 9.064 billion US dollars.
The 456th place is PetroChina, with a total revenue of 8.511 billion US dollars.
No. 489, Wanwan Power Company, with a total revenue of 8.035 billion USD.
I believe everyone can see that other than the top 12 companies, the six companies listed after that are all Hua Xia companies that made it to the top 500 companies in the world. These are also the six strongest companies in Hua Xia in 1995.
Once upon a time, being able to own a few more companies and companies in the world's top 500 was one of the dreams of all Hua Xia people. However, in 2019, after 129 companies in Hua Xia entered the ranks of the world's top 500, Hua Xia people did not think much of the world's top 500 anymore.
However, if one carefully analyzed the list of the world's top 500 in 1995, one would find a very terrifying fact. That is, Fusang companies actually occupied the first to fourth places, and in the top 10, six companies were Fusang companies. In the entire list, the number of Fusang companies was even more terrifying than Hua Xia in 2019, reaching 212 companies, almost occupying half of the entire world's top 500 list.
I believe this greatly exceeded everyone's expectations. In everyone's expectations, the United States would definitely be the country with the most companies in the world's top 500, followed by Fusang, but in fact, Fusang occupied half of the list.
At the peak of Fu Sang, the total economic output of Fu Sang was once close to that of the United States. Some far-right Fu Sang people even shouted the slogan of using the economy to wash away the humiliation and defeat they had suffered in World War II. They wanted to take back the humiliation and defeat they had suffered in World War II through the economy.
This was also something that made the Fusang very proud. Every year when the world's top 500 list was released, the Fusangpeople's media would collectively go into a frenzy to show how powerful the Fusangpeople's economy was.
"Sigh, these fake numbers!" The chief editor of Fortune Magazine sighed and shook his head when he saw so many Fusang companies' names.
When others saw so many Fusang companies' names, they would think that Fusang was already the world's number one company, but the chief editor was very clear that this list was actually just a facade.
It didn't mean that the numbers on the list were fake, although it was impossible for the numbers on the list to be completely real. After all, there were many companies on the list that were not listed and had not released their financial reports, so these numbers could only be estimated from various sources.
But this was definitely the result of a year of hard work by the entire Fortune Magazine, collecting all kinds of data and calculations. In terms of data, the chief editor could pat his chest and say that he had done the best they could. They didn't go against their conscience and give false numbers.
But this didn't mean that this list represented the real world's top 500 companies. The most simple reason was that you couldn't see names like * * * * and Rothschild on this list.
Fusang companies liked to group together. They liked to combine their strengths and then many companies would carry out mutual financing and cross-holding, and then merge into a huge new company.
This was the reason why so many Fusang companies were listed in the world's top 500. Many of the companies on the list were the merger of several original companies.
But companies in the United States were different. The United States consortia liked to hide themselves and not show themselves to the outside world. These consortia liked to break up their companies, or invest their funds separately. In short, they liked to break up the whole into parts.
Don't look at the names of some consortia that didn't appear on the world's top 500 list at all. But half of the companies on this list were actually firmly controlled by the shares of these consortia.
Including those awesome Fusang companies, even the number one Mitsubishi Group, more than 60% of the shares were in the hands of the United States. The big shots in the United States played behind the scenes. They didn't want to show their faces in public. What world's top 500 list was too hateful.
After all, everyone in the United States had a gun. If one day someone thought differently and fired a shot, no matter how many billions you had, it was just a matter of a bullet.
In short, this list couldn't really show the world's economic map, but at least in terms of the strength of each company, this list was real.
"Let's see who's the lucky one this year!" The chief editor's eyes fell on the last name, which was the 500th place.
The editors of Fortune Magazine liked to call the 500th place company the lucky one because they were so lucky. They just happened to be listed in the world's top 500 list and became a company that was the focus of the world's attention. How lucky was that?
Just like Sun Shan, although Sun Shan was the last, everyone in Hua Xia knew his name, so he didn't lose out.
"Daqian Group, a company in Hua Xia!" Seeing this name, the chief editor's eyebrows twitched, and then he said to the editor in charge in front of him, "You ranked the last place?"
"No, it was added by Mike, an editor who joined the company last year!" The editor in charge quickly said.
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