List of global technological companies by revenue
Rank | Company Name | 2009 Revenue (USDmillion) |
2008 Revenue (USD million) |
2007 Revenue (USD million) |
Headquarters | Foundation | Employees | Executive Head |
1 | Samsung Electronics | $117,4m | $110,350m | $103,4 m | Samsung Town, Seoul,South Korea | 1969 | 164,600 | Lee Kun-hee, Chairman |
2 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) | $114.552m | $118,364m | $104,000m | Palo Alto, California,USA | 1939 | 325,000 | Mark V. Hurd, Chairman, CEO and President |
3 | Hitachi, Ltd. | $99.544m | $114,722m | $94,998m | Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan | 1910 | 400,129 | Kazuo Furukawa, President |
4 | International Business Machines (IBM) | $95.757m | $103,600m | $98,800m | Armonk, New York, USA | 1896 | 399,409 | Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman & CEO |
5 | Sony | $79,618 | $100,000m | $76,201m | Minato, Tokyo, Japan | 1896 | 180,500 | Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita, Co-founder Howard Stringer, Chairman, President & CEO |
6 | Nokia Corporation | $58,802m | $61,412m | $78,619m | Espoo, Finland | 1865 | 123,171 | Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President & CEO;
Jorma Ollila, Chairman |
7 | Dell Inc. | $61.101m | $61,133m | $57,400m | Round Rock, Texas,USA | 1984, November 4 | 76,500 | Michael Dell, Founder and CEO |
8 | Microsoft Corporation | $58,437m | $60,420m | $51,120m | Redmond, Washington,USA | 1975, April 4 | 93,000 | Bill Gates, Co-founder and Executive Chairman; Steve Ballmer, CEO |
9 | NEC Corporation | $45,650m | $46,172m | $47,589m | Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan | 1899 | 143,327 | Hajime Sasaki, Chairman of the Board; Kaoru Yano, President |
10 | Canon Inc. | $45,445m | $45,801m | $40,745m | Ota-ku, Tokyo | 1937, August 10 | 166,980 | Fujio Mitarai, Chairman & CEO |
11 | Apple Inc. | $42,91m | $32,480m | $24,010m | Cupertino, California,USA | 1976, April 1 | 34,300 | Steve Jobs, CEO & Co-founder |
12 | Cisco Systems | $36,117m | $39,540m | $34,922m | San Jose, California,USA | 1984 | 63,756 | John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO |
13 | Intel Corporation | $35.127m | $37,600m | $38,300m | Santa Clara, California,USA | 1968 | 83,500 | Paul S. Otellini, CEO; Craig Barrett, Chairman |
14 | Motorola | $30,146m | $36,622m | $42,879m | Schaumburg, Illinois,USA | 1928 | 64,000 | David Dorman, Chairman; Greg Brown, Co-CEO; Sanjay Jha, Co-CEO |
15 | Oracle Corporation | $23,252m | $22,430m | $17,996m | New York, New York, United States | 1977 | 101,950 | Larry Ellison, Co-founder & CEO Jeffrey O. Henley(Chairman) |
16 | $23,651m | $22,134m | $21,268m | Mountain View, California, USA | 1998, September 4 | 19,835 | Sergey Brin, Co-founder, Lawrence E. Page, Co-founder &
Products President Eric E. Schmidt, (Chairman & CEO) |