America's top 100 Corporations
THE
2002 FORTUNE 500
|
| Rank |
Company (Link to Fortune 500 page) |
Further information, campains |
Revenues
(US $ millions) |
| 1 |
Wal-Mart
Stores |
Has been heavily criticised by workers
rights groups for using 'Maquila' sweatshops to manufacture it's products.
www.walmartwatch.com
|
219,812.0 |
| 2 |
Exxon
Mobil |
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth &
People & Planet launched a boycott of Exxon (Esso in the UK) in 2001
- despite legal threats from Exxon, the boycott is still going strong.
www.stopesso.com
|
191,581.0 |
| 3 |
General
Motors |
Michael Moore's first feature film, 'Roger
& Me' depicts the extreme poverty inflicted on his hometown: Flint,
Michigan, when General Motors relocated their headquarters. www.michaelmoore.com
|
177,260.0 |
| 4 |
Ford
Motor |
The Ford 'Explorer', a gas-guzzling Sports-Utility
Vehicle won Ford the Sierra Clubs 'Exxon-Valdez Award for the Environment'.
They
are pressuring Ford to produce a popular low-emissions car
|
162,412.0 |
| 5 |
Enron |
There are very few politicians in Washington
that hadn’t been on the receiving end of campaign donations from Enron,
before it's spectacular collapse last year. Open
Secrets Enron
|
138,718.0 |
| 6 |
General
Electric |
General Electric is responsible for dumping
highly toxic PCBs into the Hudson River and has resisted a long-running
campaign to clean the river up. www.hudsonwatch.org
|
125,913.0 |
| 7 |
Citigroup |
According to Rainforest Action Network:
The number one funder of fossil-fuel destruction around the world, The
top funder of logging projects in the world's endangered ecosystems, The
top contributor to both political parties in the last US election www.thisiscitigroup.or
|
112,022.0 |
| 8 |
ChevronTexaco |
The company is involved in a variety of environmental
and human
rights problems associated with the exploration for oil and natural
gas in 23 countries. |
99,699.0 |
| 9 |
Intl.
Business Machines |
|
85,866.0 |
| 10 |
Philip
Morris |
Philip Morris are leading the tobacco
industry's campaign against public health. That's why Infact are campaigning
to give the Marlboro Man the boot.www.infact.org
|
72,944.0 |
| 11 |
Verizon
Communications |
Do Verizon treat their workers fairly?
Jobs
with Justice don't think so!
|
67,190.0 |
| 12 |
American
Intl. Group |
|
62,402.0 |
| 13 |
American
Electric Power |
The biggest
polluters of Sulphur Dioxide emissions in the USA |
61,257.0 |
| 14 |
Duke
Energy |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
59,503.0 |
| 15 |
AT&T |
|
59,142.0 |
| 16 |
Boeing |
|
58,198.0 |
| 17 |
El
Paso |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
57,475.0 |
| 18 |
Home
Depot |
|
53,553.0 |
| 19 |
Bank
of America Corp. |
|
52,641.0 |
| 20 |
Fannie
Mae |
|
50,803.0 |
| 21 |
J.P.
Morgan Chase |
|
50,429.0 |
| 22 |
Kroger |
|
50,098.0 |
| 23 |
Cardinal
Health |
|
47,947.6 |
| 24 |
Merck |
|
47,715.7 |
| 25 |
State
Farm Insurance |
|
46,705.2 |
| 26 |
Reliant
Energy |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
46,225.8 |
| 27 |
SBC
Communications |
|
45,908.0 |
| 28 |
Hewlett-Packard |
|
45,226.0 |
| 29 |
Morgan
Stanley |
|
43,727.0 |
| 30 |
Dynegy |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
42,242.0 |
| 31 |
McKesson |
|
42,010.0 |
| 32 |
Sears
Roebuck |
|
41,078.0 |
| 33 |
Aquila |
|
40,376.8 |
| 34 |
Target |
|
39,888.0 |
| 35 |
Procter
& Gamble |
Refused to support the International Coffee Organisation's
scheme to save the livelihoods of 25 million impoverished coffee farmers
by boosting the price of coffee, which has fallen by 50% in the last 3 years
to a 50-year low www.multinationalmonitor.org
|
39,244.0 |
| 36 |
Merrill
Lynch |
|
38,793.0 |
| 37 |
AOL
Time Warner |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
38,234.0 |
| 38 |
Albertson's |
|
37,931.0 |
| 39 |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
|
37,668.0 |
| 40 |
Kmart |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
36,910.0 |
| 41 |
Freddie
Mac |
|
35,523.0 |
| 42 |
WorldCom |
|
35,179.0 |
| 43 |
Marathon
Oil |
|
35,041.0 |
| 44 |
Costco
Wholesale |
|
34,797.0 |
| 45 |
Safeway |
|
34,301.0 |
| 46 |
Compaq
Computer |
|
33,554.0 |
| 47 |
Johnson
& Johnson |
|
33,004.0 |
| 48 |
Conoco |
|
32,795.0 |
| 49 |
Pfizer |
|
32,259.0 |
| 50 |
J.C.
Penney |
|
32,004.0 |
| 51 |
MetLife |
|
31,928.0 |
| 52 |
Mirant |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
31,502.0 |
| 53 |
Dell
Computer |
Grass Roots Recycling
Network and the Computer TakeBack Campaign are targeting Dell Computer Corporation
to lead its industry to a sustainable solution for e-waste. Dell is the
leading seller of personal computers, with dominant market shares in important
sectors like public agencies and educational institutions. Dell's unique
phone and internet sales model means the company knows every one of its
customers by name, e-mail and mailing address, what equipment they own,
and when they bought it - putting the company is a unique position to develop
an effective national producer take back system. |
31,168.0 |
| 54 |
Goldman
Sachs Group |
|
31,138.0 |
| 55 |
United
Parcel Service |
|
30,646.0 |
| 56 |
Motorola |
|
30,004.0 |
| 57 |
Allstate |
|
28,865.0 |
| 58 |
TXU |
|
27,927.0 |
| 59 |
United
Technologies |
|
27,897.0 |
| 60 |
Dow
Chemical |
Dow manufactures and distributes chemicals - DTT, Agent
Orange, Dursban (pesticide) and asbestos - which are highly restricted or
banned in the USA. It is the world's largest producer of persistent organic
pollutants (POPs), the worst of toxic chemicals and their main by-product
Dioxin, one of the most poisonous. Dow now owns Union-Carbide, responsible
for the worst chemical disaster in history, killing 8,000 people in Bhopal,
India. |
27,805.0 |
| 61 |
ConAgra |
|
27,194.2 |
| 62 |
Prudential
Financial |
|
27,177.0 |
| 63 |
PepsiCo |
$749,494
, 84% of their total contributions went to fund Bush's 99-00 election campaign.
|
26,935.0 |
| 64 |
Wells
Fargo |
|
26,891.0 |
| 65 |
Intel |
|
26,539.0 |
| 66 |
International
Paper |
|
26,363.0 |
| 67 |
Delphi |
|
26,088.0 |
| 68 |
Sprint |
|
26,071.0 |
| 69 |
New
York Life Insurance |
|
25,678.2 |
| 70 |
DuPont
de Nemours (E.I.) |
|
25,370.0 |
| 71 |
Georgia-Pacific |
|
25,309.0 |
| 72 |
Microsoft |
|
25,296.0 |
| 73 |
Walt
Disney |
|
25,269.0 |
| 74 |
Aetna |
|
25,190.8 |
| 75 |
Ingram
Micro |
|
25,186.9 |
| 76 |
Lucent
Technologies |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
25,132.0 |
| 77 |
Lockheed
Martin |
|
24,793.0 |
| 78 |
Walgreen |
|
24,623.0 |
| 79 |
Bank
One Corp. |
|
24,527.0 |
| 80 |
TIAA-CREF |
|
24,230.6 |
| 81 |
Phillips
Petroleum |
|
24,189.0 |
| 82 |
BellSouth |
|
24,130.0 |
| 83 |
Honeywell
Intl. |
|
23,652.0 |
| 84 |
UnitedHealth
Group |
|
23,454.0 |
| 85 |
Viacom |
|
23,222.8 |
| 86 |
Supervalu |
|
23,194.3 |
| 87 |
PG&E
Corp. |
|
22,959.0 |
| 88 |
Alcoa |
|
22,859.0 |
| 89 |
American
Express |
|
22,582.0 |
| 90 |
Wachovia
Corp. |
|
22,396.0 |
| 91 |
Lehman
Brothers Hldgs. |
|
22,392.0 |
| 92 |
Cisco
Systems |
|
22,293.0 |
| 93 |
CVS |
|
22,241.4 |
| 94 |
Lowe's |
|
22,111.1 |
| 95 |
Sysco |
|
21,784.5 |
| 96 |
Bristol-Myers
Squibb |
Currently under investigation for accounting
irregularities |
21,717.0 |
| 97 |
Electronic
Data Systems |
|
21,543.0 |
| 98 |
Caterpillar |
|
20,450.0 |
| 99 |
Coca-Cola |
|
20,092.0 |
| 100 |
Archer
Daniels Midland |
Purveyors
of genetically-modified grain |
20,051.4 |
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